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NEW VERSION OF THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ‘GO’ EXTENDS DEVOPS AND CONTINUOUS DELIVERY ACROSS APPLICATION LIFECYCLE

Wed, 18 May 2011 17:41:22 +0000

Deeper Mingle integration and state-of-the-art configuration interface enables complete traceability from deployment all the way back to requirements

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2011 - ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in Agile ALM products and services, today announced Go^TM 2.2, a new version of its Agile release management platform that enables organizations to automate the entire build, test and deployment processes. Go 2.2 includes the ability to trace from deployments back to source code and requirements, and provides a state-of-the-art configuration interface for managing large and distributed installations. Also, the free Go Community Edition no longer requires a license so teams can now download, install and be up and running in seconds.

ThoughtWorks Studios continues to lead the DevOps and Continuous Delivery industry through its thought leadership, real-world implementation experience and innovative product offerings. In conjunction with the Go launch, the company today also is kicking off ThoughtWorks Live, a two-day, invitation-only executive event focused on how IT organizations can implement Continuous Delivery and emerging DevOps practices to enable rapid, incremental delivery of high-value software.

"IT organizations require operations teams to work closely with development and testing to ensure rapid, reliable releases of high quality software," said Jez Humble, principal at ThoughtWorks Studios and co-author of the breakthrough book, Continuous Delivery. "Go 2.2 provides the traceability and configuration capabilities to implement DevOps and Continuous Delivery effectively, even in large and highly distributed organizations."

The Go Agile release management platform enables automation of the delivery process, greater collaboration between teams involved in delivering software, and complete traceability of functionality from deployment back to source code and requirements. This enables DevOps and Continuous Delivery by facilitating collaboration between developers, testers and IT operations in large-scale, distributed organizations. Go enables large numbers of continuous integration, testing and production environments to be managed centrally, and provides push-button deployments of software.

New capabilities in Go 2.2 include:

End-to-end Traceability: Go provides complete traceability, from deployment and source code to requirements. New, deeper integrations with Mingle allow for the automatic generation of release notes, and the ability to see both source code changes and which stories have been completed between builds or deployments. The combination of Go and Mingle represents an unparalleled end-to-end requirements and release management solution.
State-of-the-Art Configuration Interface: Go eliminates the need to edit configuration files for unrivalled ease of management for large and distributed installations. This further reduces the risk of rapid, large-scale releases through improved visibility and control across the entire delivery process. Configuration files are now version controlled internally within Go.
License-free Community Edition: The free Go Community Edition is now license-free, making it even easier for teams to get started with DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Just download, install and be up and running in seconds.

Go 2.2 Availability

Go 2.2 is available now as part of the Adaptive ALM^TM platform from ThoughtWorks Studios. The Go Community Edition is available as a free download with no license required from the ThoughtWorks Studios website, while the full-version, Go Enterprise, is available via commercial license. For product, download and pricing information please visit (www.thoughtworks-studios.com/go-agile-release-management).

About ThoughtWorks Studios

ThoughtWorks Studios provides Agile ALM products and training. A division of the Agile consultancy ThoughtWorks, Inc., it offers the tools, coaching and experience to help companies realize the full potential of Agile-based development in the enterprise. Its Adaptive ALM^TM suite, Mingle^® (Agile project management), Twist^® (Agile test automation) and Go^TM (Agile release management/DevOps), helps organizations manage and automate the application lifecycle through an adaptive approach that supports people and processes. Its Agile Workshops deliver training for all facets of Agile ALM practices. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. For more information, please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ONLINE MINGLE USER GROUP TO FEATURE ENTERPRISE CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES AND BEST PRACTICES

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:16:14 +0000

THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ONLINE MINGLE USER GROUP TO FEATURE ENTERPRISE CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES AND BEST PRACTICES

Mingle users share best practices for managing the hybrid nature of Agile projects

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2011 - ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in enterprise Agile development products and services, today announced the Spring 2011 Mingle User Group that will feature presentations from enterprise customers, Rackspace and Sun Guard Global Services, and ThoughtWorks Studios experts Jez Humble and Suzie Prince. The interactive online event is free and will be held on Wed., April 13, 2011, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern. To register please visit: (http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/e4cb365195).

"Mingle continues to help enterprise customers adopt and scale Agile approaches that evolve in line with the unique needs of each customer organization," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. "The Mingle User Group will provide current and prospective customers an opportunity to learn firsthand how top development organizations are using Mingle to gain the utmost value and performance that Agile methods have to offer."

Mingle is the Agile project management platform of ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM suite that includes Twist® (Agile test automation) and Go^TM (Agile release management). Mingle's unique ability to manage any Agile method, from Scrum and Lean to "hybrid-Agile," allows organizations to develop new, innovative development methods while managing existing, legacy processes, including waterfall. This non-prescriptive, adaptive and open approach addresses the realities of IT application development, where a mix of tools and processes are used across the enterprise. Based on more than a decade of Agile innovation from parent company ThoughtWorks, Mingle provides real-time quality metrics within and across projects, and team collaboration capabilities that bridge the gap between business stakeholders, project managers, program managers, development teams and IT operations.

The Mingle User Group will provide best practices and practical tips for using Mingle to manage enterprise Agile projects. The day's events and presenters include:

The Road to Continuous Delivery: Mingle at Rackspace: Troy Toman, director of engineering for cloud computing at Rackspace has been partnering with ThoughtWorks on large-scale projects for more than three years. He will walk-through real-world examples of how Mingle enables the leaders in cloud computing to stay a step ahead in the volatile cloud industry while getting to market fast.
Powerfully Simply: Mingle at SunGard: Michael Green, senior manager at SunGard Global Services serves as a project leader and functional architect for custom and productized financial services applications at SunGard, a Fortune 500 company. Participants will see how Mingle enables the company to successfully deliver with an ROI of 4x and productivity increase of 15 percent.
Continuous Delivery: Jez Humble, author of "Continuous Delivery" and director at ThoughtWorks Studios will discuss how ensuring quality software is released to users is often a painful, risky and time consuming process. During this presentation, Humble will outline the key principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality and valuable new functionality to users.
Tips-n-Tricks: Mingle Best Practices for New and Power Users: Suzie Prince, Mingle product manager at ThoughtWorks Studios will share her deep understanding of how to get the most from Mingle for all levels of users.

For complete information and to register for the Mingle User Group online event please visit, (http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/e4cb365195).

About ThoughtWorks Studios

ThoughtWorks Studios is a global leader in Agile ALM products and training. A division of ThoughtWorks, Inc.^®, the pioneer in Agile development and best-practices, it offers the tools, coaching and experience to help companies realize the full potential of Agile development in the enterprise. Its products, Mingle (Agile project management), Twist (Agile test automation) and Go (Agile release management), help organizations manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle - from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The company's Agile Workshops provide in-depth training that covers all facets of Agile ALM best practices. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. ThoughtWorks Studios is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore, with offices in London and select cities in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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SIEMENS HEALTHCARE MANAGES SCRUM AND HYBRID DEVELOPMENT METHODS WITH THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS’ MINGLE

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:23:26 +0000

SIEMENS HEALTHCARE MANAGES SCRUM AND HYBRID DEVELOPMENT METHODS WITH THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS' MINGLE

Mingle provides flexible platform to track complex software development projects

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2011 - ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in enterprise Agile development products and services, today announced that Siemens Healthcare has successfully deployed its Mingle project management solution to adopt and implement Scrum methods across the enterprise. Siemens Healthcare selected Mingle because of its adaptive approach to manage both structured methods like Scrum and internally designed hybrid development practices. Mingle is the Agile project management platform of ThoughtWorks Studios' Agile ALM suite that includes Twist® (Agile test automation) and Go^TM (Agile release management).

"We decided on Mingle due to its usability, flexibility and features such as the virtual Story Wall, drag-n-drop functionality and reporting capabilities. Mingle's ability to flexibly adapt to our existing processes as well as support future adaptations, made it a clear choice over other similar tools," says Sigbjoern Skjervold, development manager at Siemens. "Mingle is our teams' working tool to track the projects progress and know where we are, what was left out and what was part of the delivery to our customers. So we are confident of what we ship."

Siemens, which ranks #37 on the Fortune Global 500 list, has a 163 year history in taking entrepreneurial risks to pioneer innovative concepts and visionary ideas. The Siemens Healthcare division develops the DocuLive Electronic Patient Record (EPR), an electronic health record system accessible to hospitals and medical care givers that is Norway's leading EPR software. Siemens was able to easily tailor Mingle to its teams' processes, adopt the Scrum methodology and implement multiple workflows for sub-projects. The entire team, from management and testers to developers, support and operations, use Mingle for all aspects of the delivery lifecycle, including requirements gathering, analysis, planning, tracking, reporting, project management, defect management and support management.

Mingle's flexibility has enabled Siemens Healthcare to not only use it for Scrum-based projects, but projects using other methodologies too. "We have used Mingle extensively for Waterfall projects too and have found that it retains its usability as an effective project management, tracking and collaboration solution," emphasizes Sigbjoern. Future plans for Mingle include syncing the multiple sub-projects to a program, optimizing the overview page and integrating Mingle more closely with other products.

About ThoughtWorks Studios
ThoughtWorks Studios is a global leader in Agile ALM products and training. A division of ThoughtWorks, Inc.®, the pioneer in Agile development and best-practices, it offers the tools, coaching and experience to help companies realize the full potential of Agile development in the enterprise. Its products, Mingle (project management), Twist (automated testing) and Go (Agile release management), help organizations manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle - from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The company's Agile Workshops provide in-depth training that covers all facets of Agile ALM best practices. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. ThoughtWorks Studios is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore, with offices in London and select cities in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit www.thoughtworks-studios.com

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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS’ MINGLE 3.3 SUPPORTS ENTERPRISE AGILE AND REAL-TIME RELEASE MANAGEMENT

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:32:18 +0000

THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS' MINGLE 3.3 SUPPORTS ENTERPRISE AGILE AND REAL-TIME RELEASE MANAGEMENT

Mingle addresses the hybrid nature of Agile implementations and extends governance and real-time visibility into the health of software deployments

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2011 - ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in enterprise Agile development products and services, today announced the latest version of Mingle®, its flagship Agile project management platform. New capabilities give enterprises enhanced access control and user management to better manage and organize users and project workflows. Mingle also has new integrations with the company's Agile release management product, Go^TM, for Continuous Delivery, and the Git version control system. The Go integration provides real-time visibility into software release pipelines and the overall health of software deployments.

Mingle is the Agile project management platform of ThoughtWorks Studios' Agile ALM suite that includes Twist® (Agile test automation) and Go^TM (Agile release management). Mingle's unique ability to manage any Agile method, from Scrum and Lean to "hybrid-Agile," allows organizations to develop new, innovative development methods while managing existing, legacy processes, including waterfall. This non-prescriptive, adaptive and open approach addresses the realities of IT application development, where a mix of tools and processes are used across the enterprise. Based on more than a decade of Agile innovation from parent company ThoughtWorks, Mingle provides real-time quality metrics within and across projects, and team collaboration capabilities that bridge the gap between business stakeholders, project managers, program managers, development teams and IT operations.

"Agile is built on the presumption that individual teams will figure out for themselves the many details of how to plan, build, and deliver technology," said Forrester Research, Inc. in the independent May 5, 2010 report: Tech Vendors Supporting Agile Must Be Adaptive. "During the course of adoption, teams may perform significant revisions to these details, particularly as they adopt new Agile subdisciplines. Agile tools must be able to support these evolutions."

New capabilities of Mingle 3.3 focus on extending and enhancing instance and project level integrations and user management capabilities to support larger, more complex enterprise Agile adoption. They include:

ALM integrations: Mingle's ability to serve as an ALM platform is strengthened with improved integrations with the release management product, Go, providing improved visibility into the health of software builds. Now, cross-functional teams can have a real-time, live view of Go pipelines within all Mingle cards and pages. In addition, the latest version of Mingle includes new integration support for the Git version control system.

Enterprise-grade access control and permissions: Mingle fully supports project user groups and permissions for improved project workflow management. It helps standardize user groups and improves conformance and governance by extending organization and department specific user group definitions and process workflow structures to Mingle projects.

Improved user administration and management: For larger enterprise deployments, Mingle provides instance-level views that allow administrators to manage both user membership and project permissions for multiple projects at once. It simplifies user management with a new, improved view at the project level that enables user group management and bulk removal of users from a project.

"As Agile development reaches deeper within IT organizations it is increasingly important to efficiently manage, organize and visualize information across the entire development and release process," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. "The latest version of Mingle addresses what our customers are asking for - easy to use, integrated software - allowing them to spend less time in the tool and more time building software."

Mingle 3.3 is available for download now. For more information please visit: (http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/mingle-agile-project-management).

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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS TO HOST ONLINE MINGLE USER GROUP EVENT TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES AND CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:15:29 +0000

THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS TO HOST ONLINE MINGLE USER GROUP EVENT TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES AND CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

WHO: ThoughtWorks Studios
Chris Turner - Client Services
Ken Mugrage - Mingle Product Specialist

Sierra Systems
Rick Schneider - Technology Director
Sachen MacDonald - Technology Director

WHAT: ThoughtWorks Studios will host a two-hour interactive online Mingle user event to share the latest best practices and tips for improving success using the leading project management tool for all types of Agile methods. The session will include a Mingle Customer Experience Report presented by representatives from Sierra Systems. Participants will learn how Mingle helps Sierra meet business and client requirements for management reporting, how it provides progress metrics for Scrum projects (burn-ups, burn-downs etc.), and how the company developed a delivery framework designed to promote implementation consistency and repeatability across a wide-range of projects. The session also will outline how Mingle helps teams to stay "Agile."

ThoughtWorks Studios' Turner and Mugrage will present practical and useful tips for gaining the most value from Mingle within an enterprise environment. Topics will include "Engineering Best Practices: Continuous Delivery," and "Tips-n-Tricks: Mingle Best Practices for the Power User."

When: Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time:
8 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time
10 a.m. Central Daylight Time
11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time
4 p.m. Western European Summer Time (London, GMT+01:00)

Info: To register please visit: (http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/7ffc13096d)
For more information contact Douglas Ribback at dribback@thoughtworks.com

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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS LATEST VERSION OF MINGLE HELPS SPEED ENTERPRISE ADOPTION OF AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:47:38 +0000

THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS LATEST VERSION OF MINGLE HELPS SPEED ENTERPRISE ADOPTION OF AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Deep, rich instructional Help features and historical reporting help IT organizations ramp Agile adoption

SAN FRANCISCO - Aug. 18, 2010 - ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader of Agile ALM solutions, today announced Mingle® 3.2, the latest version of its Agile project management solution. New features include rich, searchable Help content for adopting Agile best practices, powerful daily historical reporting capabilities and new plugins for creating SCM (Source Control Management) integrations with Mingle. This latest version of Mingle will help enterprise customers speed adoption of Agile methods and improve the return on investment (ROI) from Agile programs.

"In response to growing demand of our Adaptive ALM solution within large organizations and those seeking enterprise-wide roll out, this release further enables our customers to accelerate and realize the benefits of Agile," said Chad Wathington, vice president of product development for ThoughtWorks Studios. "With more than 10 years of experience implementing hundreds for Agile projects, we understand what it takes to help organizations successfully adopt Agile. This new release includes the content, reporting and integration features that will help customers better succeed with enterprise roll-outs of Agile methods."

Mingle is the Agile project management component of ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM^TM, a complete ALM solution that includes Twist® (Agile test automation) and Go® (Agile release management). Mingle is the only Agile ALM solution architected from the ground-up to provide real time quality metrics within and across projects, and team collaboration capabilities that bridge the gap between business stakeholders, project managers, program managers, development teams and IT operations to help them deliver higher-quality software faster.

New Features in Mingle 3.2 include:

Rich Help Content Embedded - new instructional videos and Help content allow users to gain a better understanding of common Agile concepts and best practices while using Mingle. This enriched and deeper Help extends beyond basic feature descriptions, providing detailed explanations and instructional videos on setting up projects and team activities, such as retrospectives and stand-ups, prioritizing, estimation and planning, workflows, story, defect and feature tracking, reporting and much more. Additionally, in-context Help provides visual cues about what users are seeing on a particular screen and what they can accomplish in that view.
Daily Historical Reporting - new Daily History Chart capabilities extend reporting to include a project's automatically-generated historical data. It allows users to objectively report on and track any card data over time. Reports can be created, such as burn-up and burn-down charts that show changes in scope and work completed during a specific time period that are based on actual historical data.
Mingle Help with Google® Site Search - users of Mingle online Help can find content faster using Google's powerful site search engine.

• Mingle SCM plugin open sourced - ThoughtWorks Studios has documented the API for building new SCM (Source Control Management systems) integrations with Mingle; and open sourced the code for the existing Mingle-to-Mercurial plugin to serve as a reference implementation. The code and documentation that shows how to write an SCM plugin for Mingle are now available via the Mingle Community website at (http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/4e2debf8a5). Developers are encouraged to share integrations in the Mingle Add-ons and Extras space on the community site.

For more information on Mingle 3.2 please visit (http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/228de2f87c)

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^TM helps organizations manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle - from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The company also provides in-depth training courses that cover all facets of Agile ALM through its Agile Workshops series. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. ThoughtWorks Studios is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore, with offices in London and select cities in Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ANNOUNCES NEW MINGLE EXTENSIONS TO HELP ENTERPRISES ADOPT AGILE PRACTICES

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:20:14 +0000

THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ANNOUNCES NEW MINGLE EXTENSIONS TO HELP ENTERPRISES ADOPT AGILE PRACTICES

Mingle extensions help Agile development teams collaborate and work more efficiently with existing tools and processes

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2010 - ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today announced a series of extensions for its Mingle® project management platform. The new integrations will help organizations synchronize data within distributed teams onto a common Agile development platform, resulting in better collaboration and visibility among business stakeholders, project managers, development, QA and technical support teams.

"As our enterprise customers adopt Agile they are challenged with a heterogeneous tools environment that prohibits them from fully maximizing existing IT investments. Leveraging Mingle's open APIs will make it easier for customers to adopt Mingle as their Agile project management platform and utilize both new and legacy systems," said Adam Monago, VP of client services for ThoughtWorks Studios. "We will continue to respond to customer and community input to improve Agile ALM collaboration between globally distributed teams, bringing them more closely together to improve the productivity, visibility and success of Agile programs."

The new Mingle extensions created and supported by ThoughtWorks Studios are priced separately and available as add-ons to existing Mingle licenses. The new extensions include:

Mingle Connector for JIRA - this new integration automatically ties tasks completed in JIRA with Mingle. It provides bi-directional updates between JIRA and Mingle - whereby defects, bugs, feature requests and other tasks created within JIRA are tightly integrated into the Agile project management workflow. In combination, organizations using the Mingle Connector for JIRA can manage and prioritize customer requirements through Mingle and gain full visibility and traceability into the status, progress, completion and reporting of issues - or feature-requests - within each software iteration. (http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/ab8c8ee3a7)

Mingle Card Prioritizer - provides product managers and business analysts with the ability to rapidly prioritize lists of epics, features and stories. Users can group cards into buckets and use drag-and-drop ranking capability to quickly sort a large backlog.

Dependency Tracker - gives program and project managers the tools needed to manage functional dependencies within and across projects, providing visual cues to indicate when commitments have been satisfied.

Test Recorder - helps QA departments that are using Mingle to manage test cases the ability to capture test results on Mingle cards and report on pass/fail rates without leaving the platform.

Mingle Mercurial Plug-in for distributed Source Control Management (SCM) - provides engineers with the power to manage the Mercurial Distributed Source Control Management solution within Mingle.

Availability
To request a demo or inquire about pricing for these extensions, please visit
(http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/forms/form/all/unregcall).

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 set of lifecycle tools designed exclusively for sustainable, enterprise-wide Agile ALM success. Based on ThoughtWorks ground-breaking experience and commitment to software excellence, Adaptive ALM^TM helps organizations manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle - from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The company also provides in-depth training courses that cover all facets of Agile ALM through its Agile Workshops series. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, and Rackspace. ThoughtWorks Studios 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’ NEW TWIST 2.0 PROVIDES COLLABORATIVE AGILE TEST MANAGEMENT

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:07:07 +0000

Latest update to Adaptive ALM^TM suite drives productivity of QA, developers and business analysts, reduces development rework while keeping pace with rapid Agile releases

SAN FRANCISCO and BANGALORE, March 1, 2010 - ThoughtWorks Studios, (www.thoughtworks-studios.com) a global leader in Agile ALM and training, today announced the latest version of its Agile test automation solutions, Twist® 2.0. Designed to manage the rapid pace of software testing within Agile environments, Twist 2.0 helps testers, developers and business analysts work together to ensure testing is highly efficient and collaborative, resulting in faster release cycles of quality applications.

"It's very common for people involved in software testing to spend more time trying to keep their automated tests in synch with development rather than actually testing applications," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director, for ThoughtWorks Studios. "Twist provides a framework for test automation and test-driven development that allows all stakeholders to build test suites and scenarios using plain English, thereby mitigating the complexity of traditional test automation."

Twist offers simplicity and an intuitive user experience to create highly robust and reusable test automation frameworks for both manual and functional automated tests. An integral part of ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM solution, Twist provides continuous visibility into testing activities across distributed projects and teams.

Unlike traditional test tools, Twist uses Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Domain Specific Language (DSL) to allow test automation specialists, developers and business analysts to work collaboratively as a means of ensuring testing efforts match the exact, intended functionality of new applications. This unique approach of using the English language to build test scripts expands the testing process to the "business side" of software development, reducing development re-work and faulty software that does not meet strategic business goals. Twist allows teams to adjust and/or react to change effectively through an open and flexible framework conducive to testing within short sprints or iterations. Ultimately, it allows the testing effort to keep pace with the increasingly rapid rate of application delivery.

New features in Twist 2.0 include:

Hybrid Test Execution - allows for manual and automated test steps within the same scenario. This improves collaboration and execution efficiency of both automated and manual testing efforts.
Improved Workflow Reuse - provides high level test scenarios and steps (manual and automated) that can be reused and shared within and across multiple projects.
Groovy Scripting - supports the Groovy dynamic Agile language for Java. It makes modern programming features available to Twist users with almost zero learning curve.
Additional Web Driver support for Sahi - testers have the option of using Sahi or Selenium for Web testing. The benefit of using Sahi is that it abstracts out most difficulties that testers face while automating Web applications.
SWTBOT support - allows Twist users to test Java SWT-based applications

Data Driven Scenarios - build data-driven tests on the fly for increased test coverage

ThoughtWorks Studios is the products division of the industry leading Agile consultancy ThoughtWorks®. Its Adaptive ALM^TM solution includes Mingle® (project management), Twist® (test automation) and Cruise® (release management), to manage all aspects of the software development and delivery lifecycle - from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management.

Twist supports Agile ALM by combining requirements and test specification management and creation, and by providing manual and test automation to ensure quality throughout the application lifecycle. It plays a significant role in ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM by providing a robust, reusable, multi-platform testing capability that ensures testing keeps pace with application development. Twist increases visibility and awareness of Agile testing activities by providing test results for processes managed by Mingle and Cruise. Together with Mingle, it connects directly to Mingle repositories and links story cards directly to Twist test scenarios. This provides full traceability of test and requirements coverage. When integrated with Cruise, Twist can export all of the necessary libraries to run test scenarios and suites. This allows tests to be run as part of a build (with reports of test results).

For more information on ThoughtWorks Studios' new Twist 2.0 please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/agile-test-automation Users can also access a free, 30-day download by visiting: (http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/user/register&destination=forms/form/twist/download).

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 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^TM, 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 its 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 SEES ACCELERATED ADOPTION OF ITS ADAPTIVE ALM SOLUTION FOR AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:48:19 +0000

Enterprise customers are benefiting by integrating project/program management, test and release management into a unified solution for large-scale Agile development

LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2, 2010 - ThoughtWorks Studios, (www.thoughtworks-studios.com) a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today announced the continued adoption of its Adaptive ALMTM solution that helps organizations streamline and automate the entire Agile software development lifecycle. During the last quarter of 2009, the company closed several enterprise licenses for Adaptive ALM, an integrated solution comprised of Mingle® (project management), Twist® (test automation) and Cruise® (release management) products. These companies included, The Trainline (www.thetrainline.com) and Trader Media Group (www.autotrader.co.uk).

"Organizations looking to extend Agile practices deeper into the software development process realize that mastering project management is only one step in building out a truly Agile enterprise," explained Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. "With Adaptive ALM, a growing number of customers are moving to integrate core engineering practices to create a richer and more complete Agile program that drives productivity and improves software quality."

ThoughtWorks Studios is the products division of the industry leading Agile consultancy ThoughtWorks®. It developed Adaptive ALM to address the shortcomings of traditional ALM solutions that lack the functionality to effectively manage the hybrid nature of Agile practices. In addition, incumbent stand-alone Agile project management tools require extensive third-party tool integrations to make up an Agile ALM platform. ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM product suite delivers 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.

Based on deep experience developing some of the most successful and sophisticated Agile projects in the world, all ThoughtWorks Studios' software adapts to unique customer dynamics and allows organizations to determine preferred workflows and processes. 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. It provides developers and business team members with a holistic set of tools that work in harmony to deliver real-time collaboration and visibility. It also removes operational silos and, through cross-functional automation, effectively meets strategic business objectives regardless of changing parameters.

For more information on ThoughtWorks Studios Adaptive ALM solution please visit: (http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/solutions/application-lifecycle-management).

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 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. The company also provides in-depth training courses that cover all aspects of Agile ALM through its 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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TASKTOP INTEGRATES THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS MINGLE WITH ECLIPSE MYLYN FOR AGILE ALM

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:35:20 +0000

New integration connects Mingle project management tool with the Eclipse IDE
for improved developer productivity and project status visibility

VANCOUVER, Dec. 9, 2009 - Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com), creators of Eclipse Mylyn and the leading provider of task management for application lifecycle management (ALM), and ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com) today announced the availability of the ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle® Mylyn Connector. The new offering integrates development activities performed in the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with project management in the new Mingle 3.0. Together, the products help developers easily and accurately track progress while, simultaneously, providing accurate and up-to-date project status visibility for team leads.

"To gain the greatest value from Agile project management tools organizations must accurately track development activity and progress as close to real-time as possible," said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. "The Tasktop integration with Mingle makes it effortless for developers to collaborate, update project status, and automatically track time within the Eclipse IDE, bridging the gap between the development and project management layers of the Agile ALM stack."

The Mingle Mylyn Connector enables Mingle development teams to take advantage of Mylyn's innovative task-focused productivity technology that shows only the most relevant source code for a given task. This technology helps reduce information overload for large-scale development projects and enables developers to multitask and recover from interruptions with a single click. With the connector, ThoughtWorks Studios' customers will further improve their productivity by eliminating the need to toggle between their browser, email and IDE to gather information necessary to complete application development tasks. Tasktop and ThoughtWorks Studios are planning to release Mylyn connectors for Twist and Cruise during Q1 of 2010.

Mingle is the project management component of ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM^TM, a complete development solution that includes Twist® (test automation) and Cruise® (release management). Major features available in the new Mingle 3.0 include an entirely new communications platform called "Murmurs^TM." Murmurs captures conversations that would otherwise have been lost through unstructured communications - such as IM chats, emails, etc. - and instantly associates team conversations with Mingle project artifacts. Mingle 3.0 also includes new program-level management features that provide cross-project visibility, traceability and extended reporting capabilities. In addition, it provides enhanced reporting capabilities, support for software configuration management (SCM) through Subversion® 1.6.5 and API updates that provide better access to information within Mingle for integration with external applications or systems.

"We are extremely excited to offer our customers a new level of integration between task-level activities and our Mingle project management tool," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. "In addition, the integration of our new Murmurs social networking feature available in Mingle 3.0 represents a new level of communication and collaboration within the Eclipse IDE."

The ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle Mylyn Connector is available now and included in Tasktop Pro for $99. A free Tasktop Pro trial is available from http://tasktop.com/download. Eclipse Galileo (3.5) users also will be able to install it directly from Mylyn's Connector Discovery in Eclipse. For more information, visit http://tasktop.com/connectors/thoughtworks-studios. For more information, or to download a free trial of Mingle 3.0 visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/mingle-agile-project-management/mingle-releasing-with-murmurs.

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 ALM^TM 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 its 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.

About Tasktop Technologies
Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and its revolutionary task-focused interface technology. The task-focused interface is proven to make developers more productive by showing only the relevant information for each task, dramatically reducing search time and facilitating multitasking. Tasktop Pro is the company's enterprise-ready product based on Mylyn, with task-focused support for web browsing, time tracking, documents, email and calendars. Tasktop Technologies also provides consulting, connector development services and training to the growing number of companies adopting the task-focused paradigm and tools. For more information please visit www.tasktop.com.

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