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New Sensor for 6th Sense


Latest version of project metrics tool has operating system detection, attribution engine

By Jeff Feinman
December 20, 2007 — 
Software development metric company 6th Sense Analytics has released the latest version of its namesake development project metrics tool, with a new operating system sensor for increasing visibility into developer activities on the desktop.

6th Sense executives said that the new sensor tracks every last bit of desktop activity for computers running Microsoft Windows, giving customers “unprecedented” visibility into the time sink of noncoding activity.

“Before this, we had a picture of simply development level activity, but now, we’re capturing all nondevelopment activity” on the computer, said Todd Olson, co-founder and CTO of 6th Sense. “A lot of times, customers are concerned that products aren’t getting done and people aren’t getting freed up to work on the projects. They want to know where the bottleneck is. The greatest benefit we’re providing is now we have enough data to get people a very accurate picture of where the bottlenecks are in their software projects.”

New features in the 6th Sense Analytics update include a framework for attributing time to various categories, and an attribution engine that allows users to define their systems and create rules for attributing time to projects. System reports have also been refreshed with user-defined values and uniformity in tracking and reporting.

“Today, developers are using Web browsers and other collaborative tools that fall outside integrated development environments,” Olson said. “In addition [to the new sensor], 6th Sense’s attribution engine ensures that the collected data reflects a team’s individual business and processes.”


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