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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ANNOUNCES LATEST EDITION OF ‘GO’ FOR AGILE DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:17:30 +0000

THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ANNOUNCES LATEST EDITION OF 'GO' FOR AGILE DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

New version of Go helps organizations scale up and manage complex release management efforts across the enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2010 - ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in Agile ALM solutions, today announced Go^TM 2.1, the latest edition of its Agile release management platform that allows organizations to incrementally automate their entire build, test and deployment processes, releasing software faster and more reliably. The latest version of Go focuses on helping IT organizations scale, integrate and better conduct complex release management initiatives that include numerous teams and multiple projects.

"Global distribution, poor collaboration and manual build, test and deployment processes mean expensive, risky, error-prone releases. You need to ship valuable new software fast and reliably to meet changing business goals - without compromising on quality," said Jez Humble, ThoughtWorks Studios' Principal Product Manager for Go and co-author of the breakthrough book, Continuous Delivery. "Customers that are building out and scaling release management and Continuous Delivery across the IT organization with Go now have improved visibility and coordination across multiple teams and projects within the enterprise."

The Go Agile release management platform provides automation and collaboration for the "last mile" of the Agile ALM process. It enables Continuous Delivery by facilitating collaboration between developers, testers and IT operations in large-scale, distributed organizations. It manages large numbers of continuous integration, testing and production environments centrally, and enables push-button deployments of software with complete auditing and traceability. The resulting Continuous Delivery capabilities enable organizations to radically accelerate the value and return on IT investments.

New features included in Go 2.1 include:

Enterprises can now delegate administration rights for individual Continuous Integration (CI) environments centrally. This allows continuous integration (CI) to be provided as a service to teams, which reduces administrative overhead.
Go improves collaboration and productivity as an OpenSocial provider, with a new pipeline gadget that will integrate with ThoughtWorks Studios forthcoming 3.3 release of Mingle®, the agile project management solution.
Teams can easily diagnose and trace test failures with commit and stack trace information in Go's unique distributed test analysis reports.
New communication features improve team visibility and coordination through easy Atom notification for all pipelines and automated email notifications for all test failures.
Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.

ThoughtWorks Studios' Go helps drive Continuous Delivery by providing organizations with a standard platform to automate, manage and control the entire build, deploy and release processes. As described in the new book, Continuous Delivery (Addison-Wesley, Martin Fowler Signature Series, Jez Humble and Dave Farley), delivering software to users can be a painful, risky and time-consuming process. Continuous Delivery outlines the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality through the automation of the build, deployment and testing process.

Go 2.1 Availability
Go is available now as part of the Adaptive ALM^TM platform from ThoughtWorks Studios. The Go Community edition is available as a free download from the ThoughtWorks Studios website, while the full-version, commercial Go Enterprise is available via license. For product, download and pricing information please visit (www.thoughtworks-studios.com/go-agile-release-management).

About ThoughtWorks Studios
ThoughtWorks Studios is the global leader in Agile ALM tools and training. A division of ThoughtWorks®, the pioneer in Agile development and best-practices, it offers the only holistic, fully integrated delivery lifecycle platform designed exclusively for sustainable, enterprise-wide Agile ALM success. Based on ThoughtWorks ground-breaking experience and commitment to software excellence, Adaptive ALM helps organizations manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle - from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. For more information, please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ANNOUNCES AGILE WORKSHOPS TO SUPPORT AGILE APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:33:08 +0000

On the heels of its Adaptive ALMTM launch, ThoughtWorks Studios incorporates best-practices workshops to complement tool offerings

CHICAGO (Agile 2009), Aug. 24, 2009 - ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) tools and training, today announced ThoughtWorks Agile Workshops, a new set of training programs to help development organizations adopt proven best practices for all aspects of Agile ALM.

Developed by the recognized leader in large-scale Agile deployments, the Agile Workshops complement ThoughtWorks Studios' recently launched Adaptive ALM solution, providing customers with a complete set of tools and training to improve program visibility and performance while adapting to the changing dynamics of enterprise Agile programs.

"For organizations to achieve true Agile success they need both tools and training to manage the process of change and the variety of methodologies that are common in enterprise software development," said Adam Monago, vice president, client services for ThoughtWorks Studios. "Our Agile Workshops represent an entirely new curriculum of in-depth training programs that will help all stakeholders within an organization work more efficiently and collaboratively throughout the Agile transformation process."

The ThoughtWorks Agile Workshops focus on all aspects of the Agile ALM and are taught by highly experienced development experts. The courses are delivered on-premise and are grouped into four primary areas of Agile ALM, including:

Agile Foundations
These training sessions focus on the core building blocks and business requirements of building a successful Agile practice. Sessions include: ThoughtWorks Agile Fundamentals; Agile Analysis in Practice; Essential Agile Engineering Practices; Agile Quality Analyst; and, an Agile Leadership Offering for those in business management roles.

Team Collaboration and Project Management
This track of courses is designed to help program managers become more effective leaders within the software development organization. Courses include: Becoming an Agile Project Manager; Distributed Agile Workshop; and, Agile Lifecycle Management with Mingle.

Testing and Quality Assurance
Based on more than 16 years of experience developing industry leading best practices around testing and quality, this set of offerings includes: Functional Testing Organizational Assessment; Automated Functional Testing Primer; Getting Started with Twist; Twist Evolution; and, Test Drivers: Using Selenium or Frankenstein with Twist.

Continuous Build and Release Management
With a commitment to supporting the latest in engineering best practices, workshops include: Release Management Capability Assessment; CI Environment Set-up; Cruise Quickstart; and, Build, Release and Deployment Advisory.

ThoughtWorks Studios, the products division of the industry leading Agile consultancy ThoughtWorks, now offers the tooling and training enterprise customers need to successfully adopt Agile-based development practices. Its Adaptive ALM integrates its three flagship products, Mingle® (project management), Twist® (test automation) and Cruise® (release management). The result is a fully automated solution that supports all aspects of software development and delivery lifecycle, from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management.

Complete information on the ThoughtWorks Agile Workshops can be found at www.thoughtworks-studios.com/services

About ThoughtWorks Studios
ThoughtWorks Studios is a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training. Its products and services are used by organizations as a foundation for sustainable Agile adoption, where project management, automation and engineering best practices are required. The company's Adaptive ALMTM solution provides a platform for managing all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from requirements definition and project management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The three products that make up Adaptive ALM, Mingle® (project management) Twist® (test automation) and Cruise® (release management), are available as an integrated solution or as stand-alone products. The company also provides in-depth training courses that cover all aspects of Agile ALM through it Agile Workshops series. Backed as an independent division of ThoughtWorks, the pioneering leader in Agile development and best-practices, ThoughtWorks Studios' customers include 3M, , Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. It is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore, with offices in London and select cities in Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS INTRODUCES ADAPTIVE ALM™ FOR AGILE APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:30:56 +0000

Integration of industry leading tools delivers flexibility, automation and best-practices to better manage change while increasing the visibility of software development programs

SAN FRANCISCO AND BANGALORE, August 17, 2009 - ThoughtWorks Studios, (www.thoughtworks-studios.com) a global leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) and software development tools, today announced Adaptive ALMTM, a new solution to help organizations streamline and automate the entire Agile software development lifecycle. Using Adaptive ALM, development organizations realize new levels of visibility and flexibility to better manage a wide range of software development methodologies and incorporate engineering best practices that drive productivity and quality.

"Many traditional 'ALM' tools focus on project management and require end-users to adhere to the dynamics of the tool, rather than the tool adapting to an organization's processes and practices," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. "Adaptive ALM allows teams to use their chosen development methods, while supporting engineering best practices that are vital to the successful development of sophisticated and mission-critical software projects."

ThoughtWorks Studios, the products division of the industry leading Agile consultancy ThoughtWorks®, developed Adaptive ALM through the integration of its three flagship products, Mingle® (project management), Twist® (test automation) and Cruise® (release management). The result is a fully automated solution that supports all aspects of a software development and delivery lifecycle, from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management.

ThoughtWorks Studios development tools are currently used by hundreds of customers in more than 20 countries. Using Mingle as the management hub for globally distributed and cross functional teams, Adaptive ALM delivers the following benefits for Agile-based development:

• Stakeholder Visibility - provides both management and development teams with real-time visibility across the development lifecycle to more accurately manage and adapt to changing environments.

• Requirements Management - supports greater efficiency and timely capture, management, prioritization and tracking of business objectives. Helps teams at every point in the development lifecycle build to exact customer specifications.

• Traceability and Accountability - allows teams to track business value throughout the development lifecycle through detailed project history at the story level, shared virtual project wall, auditable deployments and traceable story transitions.

• Quality Management - manages quality driven software development from requirements gathering to development and release. Enables business requirements to serve as test specifications and provide automation of test suites and routine test deployments.

• Test Automation and Deployment Management - provides team control and visibility into test and release processes, with fully automated test suites that evolve with the application. This cross-functional automation improves collaboration and quality-driven deployments, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software with intended business value.

ALM with Agility
Based on more than 16 years of experience building and delivering some of the world's most successful and sophisticated Agile implementations, all ThoughtWorks Studios software is designed to adapt to customer dynamics and characteristics. This flexible, "work as you like" approach to building out a complete ALM program promotes the use of both new and existing processes and best practices across the enterprise. The solution provides developers and business team members with a holistic set of tools that work in harmony to deliver real-time collaboration and visibility. It helps remove operational silos and, through cross-functional automation, effectively meet strategic business objectives regardless of changing parameters.

"Our experience shows us that 'Agile-in-a-box' products, and focusing primarily on project management practices alone, does not guarantee Agile success," says Mitchell. "Adaptive ALM helps manage change and improves certainty of business outcome through collaboration and engineering best practices, like continuous integration, automated testing and refactoring, to help our customers minimize defects, eliminate waste, improve responsiveness and, ultimately, release better software faster."

About ThoughtWorks Studios
ThoughtWorks Studios is a global leader in Agile ALM and software development tools. Its products are used by organizations as a foundation for sustainable Agile adoption, where project management, automation and engineering best practices are required. The company's Adaptive ALM solution provides a platform for managing all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from requirements definition and project management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The three products that make up Adaptive ALM, Mingle (project management) Twist (test automation) and Cruise (release management), are available as an integrated solution or as stand-alone products. Backed as an independent division of ThoughtWorks, the pioneering leader in Agile development and best-practices, ThoughtWorks Studios customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. It is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore, with offices in London and select cities in Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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