Integration Developer News interviews Todd Olson, Co-Founder, CTO of 6th Sense Analytics
Vance McCarthy of Integration Developer News interviewed Todd Olson, our co-founder and CTO.
IDN: Last month, 6th Sense Analytics unveiled its latest analytics solution. What kind of metrics do you think are most valuable to distributed development projects? How can devs use measurements to improve their appdev processes?
Olson: Metrics programs don't always inspire a great deal of enthusiasm because of the history of measuring the wrong things and the dysfunctional behaviors some metrics can breed. Lines of code is the classic example of metrics gone awry. People align their behavior with what’s being measured, so measuring lines of code results in verbose software code. This is the unintended consequence of measuring the wrong thing.
6th Sense focuses on a pioneering metric we call Active Time, [which] relates to the time developers spend interacting with their toolset and the specific context of what is getting worked on (for example, systems, components and activities). Active Time is a reliable proxy for effort, [and] is critical in a distributed context—for example, in offshore projects—where you simply aren't able to know how time is being spent.
Using this metric, organizations can see if resources are aligned to the right priorities, and development activities are in sequence with methods and best practices. It also provides a comparative basis for understanding the patterns and performance of teams, onshore vs. offshore, for example.
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http://www.idevnews.com/CaseStudies.asp?ID=216
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