Our Vision
If you have written software or led software teams there is one question that you always dread – the "How's it going?" question from senior leadership or other project stakeholders. Oh sure, you might have a detailed schedule and are gathering frequent status for your project, but in your heart, you know that there is uncertainty and risk in any answer you provide.
Why is that? It is largely because there are no easy ways to capture real performance data within software teams. You are completely stuck with polling the team and trying to map anecdotal information to your plans and probability for success. And the team is struggling as well. Trying to remember their original estimates and where they stand against them while also trying to deliver superb products.
Industry pundits and tool and methods vendors try to sell you tools and processes to improve your software development capabilities. But then, over the past 15 years we still haven’t seen a significant decline in our +60% failure rates in software projects. No matter our focus, our level of improvements seems to always lag in payback.
The Agile Methods are starting to sort things out in the right direction. Instead of focusing solely on tools and processes, hoping that we can mechanize improvement, they are focusing on the capabilities of the software team—trying to foster self-directed teams that adapt and learn as a better model for developing software.
Even within agility though, the missing piece across all of this is true insight into the performance characteristics for your teams. Real, finely-grained data that illustrates exactly what is being done, and not done, within your teams. Where are the strengths, the weaknesses, the risks? What is on track and what is not? Who is your best performer and who is struggling?
This is the vision of 6th Sense Analytics -- to provide you with a level of software performance data and feedback that is unheard of. It will empower any software development effort to be inquisitive, insightful, informed, and armed with data that illustrates the dynamics of the individual, team and organization’s development capabilities. It puts improvement truly in your hands, not in a tool or process. You decide what is or is not worth taking action on. You gain the insight and the potential for vast improvement.
We're in the insight business so you can build better software. The quote from Dr. Deming aligns well with our theme – "In God we trust, all others bring data" and we simply provide the data.
6th Sense Analytics does not view software development is being "broken". In fact, with the advent of Agile, Lean and iterative development processes its doing quite well. The missing bit is actually quite simple—simply having real-time data to guide the evolution of your teams and products. 6th Sense Analytics delivers IT and business teams up-to-the minute, fact-based insight into the status of projects. We help our customers successfully deliver software on time and within budget.
Best of all, 6th Sense Analytics does not try to change what you do. Instead, it works with you. Our open, web-based architecture integrates with different vendors' platforms, meaning we are capable of working with your existing tools.