Subversion ( SVN ), the popular source-code control system, has a command to see the changes to a file by user. It shows a file annotated line-by-line with the user responsible for authoring it. This command has two names: blame and praise. Whenever I jokingly suggest using "blame", developers will often respond, "you mean praise?"
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6th Sense Analytics was recently named to the 2008 TechJournal Tech50.
Tech 50 is a yearly list of technology leaders provided by TechJournal South, the business publication of the southeast’s new economy.
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Morrisville, NC & Austin, TX -- 6th Sense Analytics, Inc., a provider of unbiased data and metrics, and Journyx, the first company to provide Web-based time tracking and project accounting solutions that guide customers to per-person, per-project profitability, today announced they have partnered to deliver an automated time tracking solution. The integrated solution populates Journyx Timesheet with activity data automatically collected by 6th Sense Analytics.
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Every development organization I've talked to thinks this is exciting. This is a longstanding problem. Managers want metrics, managers' managers want metrics, but no one wants to slow the project down to gather information. There were solutions like this in the past that made it a little easier but no one makes it quite this easy.
~ Carey Schwaber, senior analyst with Forrester Research
Neil Ford has a great quote about test automation.
We're running too late to stop for gas.
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We all know that developers can't estimate time, don't we? But why not? Developers are very smart. We deal with abstract concepts every day. You'd think we'd be able to learn this skill over time. But somehow we never get better at work estimation. Some people attribute it to a developer's innate optimism, and that's part of it. But there's a more important factor here.
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This is a serious question... take a moment and think about what happened to your last unsuccessful project. The list is usually contains the same 'usual suspects'.
Bad requirements. Moving targets. Crazy estimates. Unrealistic deadlines.
On Monday I spoke at this year's Academy for Software Engineering Educators and Trainers and got to spend some time talking with Watts Humphrey. He asked me this question.
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Morrisville, NC – April 15, 2008 – 6th Sense Analytics Inc., provider of unbiased data and metrics into the status of outsourced software development projects, today announced its integration with Atlassian’s JIRA product,,a bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management application.
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On Saturday, we delivered an update to the 6SA application. Although the release does have many visible new features, there are many usability and user-driven updates in the release. Here's a quick list of what you can expect:
We'll be highlighting some of the new features in future posts, so stay tuned. As always we welcome your feedback. Please direct comments to support@6sa.com.
Noted RedMonk industry analyst Michael Cote did a webcast interview with me about the 6th Sense Analytics product suite and how we integrate with the JIRA feature/issue tracker software. We’re a very nice addition to your Jira install. We easily pull data out of JIRA and then provide additional reporting and trending features.
