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December 9, 2009
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS NOW SHIPPING MINGLE 3.0 FOR IMPROVED COLLABORATION AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT FOR AGILE ALM
Mingle 3.0 includes Tasktop integration, extends collaboration via
social communication and enables program management
LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9, 2009 – ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today announced it is shipping Mingle® 3.0, its industry leading Agile project management tool. Mingle 3.0 provides new levels of team collaboration, and extended reporting and management visibility across projects for improved program management. In addition, Mingle 3.0 is now fully integrated with Tasktop Pro (www.tasktop.com), the enterprise version of Mylyn, the most widely adopted ALM integration platform for the Eclipse IDE.
“At its core, successful software development is all about collaboration and the ability for stakeholders across the enterprise to share information and track progress in a timely and efficient manner,” said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. “In Mingle 3.0, our new Murmurs functionality offers new levels of enterprise communication that brings previously unstructured conversations into projects. Additionally, the integration of task-level activities directly into Mingle through Tasktop improves developer productivity and the accuracy of status reporting.”
Mingle is the project management component of ThoughtWorks Studios’ Adaptive ALMTM solution that supports all aspects of the software development and delivery lifecycle – from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. In addition to Mingle, Adaptive ALM includes Twist® (test automation) and Cruise® (release management).
Major new features in Mingle 3.0 include:
- Online Team Collaboration – to help teams work more efficiently and collaboratively, ThoughtWorks Studios has designed an entirely new communications platform called “MurmursTM.” Murmurs captures conversations that would otherwise have been lost through unstructured communications – such as IM chats, emails, etc. – and instantly associates team dialogs with Mingle project artifacts. All software development team members can share ideas, track progress in real-time, and improve intra-team and cross-team visibility and traceability. The first external integration of Murmurs uses JabberTM chat.
- Program Management Capabilities – new program-level management features provide cross-project visibility, traceability and extended reporting capabilities. Features include a pre-built cross-project reporting macro that extends the Macro Developer Tool Kit for flexible reporting from multiple projects in real time. Managers now can easily copy cards and create links between projects to manage work among them.
- Enhanced Usability and Support – additional reporting capabilities include a Macro Creator for developers. This helps simplify and automate syntax for powerful reporting within Mingle projects when creating reports and previewing charts. Other enhancements add support for software configuration management (SCM) through Subversion® 1.6.5, API updates that provide better access to information within Mingle for integration with external applications or systems, and updates to available MQL database queries. Personalization upgrades allow end-users to manage history notification subscriptions and add personal icons to a user profile page.
In addition, Mingle 3.0 provides rich client access and Eclipse development environment integration for project team members by way of Tasktop Pro. The ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle Mylyn Connector, now included in Tasktop Pro, allows Mingle users to access Mingle artifacts directly from their development environment. The connector provides cross-repository accessibility and dependency management so team members can easily relate Mingle cards to artifacts within numerous other tracking systems supported by Tasktop Pro. In addition, Tasktop’s automated time-tracking solution integrates with Mingle, providing a much needed integration layer between developer tools and project management tools in the Agile ALM stack. This allows team members to accurately track actual hours on the desktop, adjust as needed, and submit them to Mingle, providing improved visibility for the entire team. Tasktop Pro also enables team members to enrich their day-to-day conversations via direct integration with the new Murmurs collaboration feature in Mingle.
“Being able to bring the new Murmurs social collaboration capability available in Mingle 3.0 directly into the Eclipse IDE will further streamline developer communication and knowledge transfer around a project or specific development task,” said Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project. “We look forward to working with ThoughtWorks Studios to help teams reach a new level of collaborative development and project visibility by connecting Mingle with development activity on the desktop.”
Pricing and Availability
Mingle 3.0 is available immediately directly from ThoughtWorks Studios and pricing starts at $566 per user, per year. For more information or to download a free trial please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/mingle-agile-project-management/mingle-releasing-with-murmurs. 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.
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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November 4, 2009
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS TO DEMO MINGLE INTEGRATION WITH GOOGLE WAVE FOR AGILE ALM
Keynote presentation at Enterprise 2.0 conference illustrates how Google Wave can help transform IT management and Agile software development collaboration
SAN FRANCISCO, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Nov. 4, 2009 – ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, will demonstrate today an integration between its Mingle project management tool and Google Wave. Google and ThoughtWorks Studios will show how the two products can be used to improve IT collaboration and software development productivity with a joint demonstration during today’s keynote session at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.
“The Mingle integration with Google Wave demonstrates how Wave can improve IT productivity by enabling a new level of collaboration between enterprise software developers and the end customers using these services,” said Gregory D’Alesandre, product manager, Google Wave.
The demonstration shows a number of ways software development organizations can use Mingle to add structure and metadata to conversations in Google Wave. Users can create new Mingle artifacts by selecting simple text in Google Wave. They can also view and interact with Mingle card data automatically, and they can see which conversations in Google Wave reference specific cards in Mingle.
“One of the core principles of Agile software development is improved collaboration and efficiency, and the integration of Mingle with Google Wave offers a great example of how enterprise IT can use the technology,” said Chad Wathington, vice president, product development at ThoughtWorks Studios. “Having a rich graphical environment to share and update data as it relates to the entire software development lifecycle certainly aligns with our strategy to offer an adaptive, flexible Agile ALM solution that leapfrogs traditional methods for planning, building and deploying great software faster and with more accuracy.”
To learn more about the Google Wave and Mingle integration, please visit www.thoughtworks-studios.com
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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THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS’ NEW MINGLE 3.0 IMPROVES TEAM COLLABORATION AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT FOR AGILE ALM
Development teams can collaborate via enterprise IM chat that is tied to specific Mingle® artifacts for on-demand review, new reporting extends across multiple projects
SAN FRANCISCO, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Nov. 4, 2009 – ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today unveiled a major new release of its Mingle® project management tool. Features of Mingle 3.0 focus on new levels of collaborative communication and extending reporting and manager visibility across multiple projects for improved program management. In line with its new online collaboration capabilities, Mingle also is being integrated with Google Wave (see today’s release: (ThoughtWorks Studios to Demo Mingle Integration with Google Wave for Agile ALM) to further improve the communication and efficiency of development teams.
“Having the ability to centralize a range of unstructured communications and associate them collectively with a specific project artifact will reduce wasted time sifting through past correspondence to stay on task,” said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. “This new version of Mingle also provides managers with new levels of visibility on progress and how resources are being used across multiple projects.”
Mingle is the project management component of ThoughtWorks Studios’ recently launched Adaptive ALM™, a complete development solution that includes Twist® (test automation) and Cruise® (release management). The result is a fully automated solution that supports all aspects of the software development and delivery lifecycle, from requirements definition and portfolio management to test automation, quality assurance and release management.
Major new features in Mingle 3.0 include:
• Online Team Collaboration – to help teams work more efficiently and collaboratively, ThoughtWorks Studios has designed an entirely new communications platform called “Murmurs.” 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. All software development team members can share ideas, better track progress in real-time, and improve intra-team and cross-team visibility and traceability. The first external integration of Murmurs uses Jabber chat.
• Program Management Capabilities – new program-level management features provide cross-project visibility, traceability and extended reporting capabilities. It includes a pre-built cross-project reporting macro and extends the Macro Developer Tool Kit to enable flexible reporting from multiple projects in real time. Managers now can easily copy cards and create links between projects to manage work between projects.
• Enterprise Scalability – the application now supports Mingle clustering, which facilitates horizontal scaling for larger organizations.
• Simplified Reporting – the new Macro Editor helps users new to Mingle Macros by automating syntax within projects thus simplifying the creation and preview of charts.
• Enhanced Usability and Support – additional reporting capabilities include a Macro Creator for developers. This helps simplify and automate syntax for powerful reporting within Mingle projects when creating reports and previewing charts. Other enhancements add support for software configuration management (SCM) through Subversion® 1.6.5, API updates that provide better access to information within Mingle for integration with external applications or systems, and updates to available MQL database queries. Personalization upgrades allow end-users to manage history notification subscriptions and add personal icons to a user profile page.
Mingle 3.0 includes enhanced support for project team members by way of Tasktop Pro. The Mingle Connector for Tasktop Pro will bring the power of Mingle to the desktop, allowing Mingle users to access task-focused work from the development environment. The connector also will provide cross-repository accessibility and dependency management so that team members can easily relate Mingle cards to artifacts within other tracking systems supported by Tasktop Pro. In addition, Tasktop’s automated time-tracking solution will integrate with Mingle, providing a much needed integration layer between developer tools and the Agile ALM stack. This allows team members to accurately track actual hours on the desktop, submit them in aggregate to related Mingle cards and provide improved visibility for the entire team. Tasktop Pro also allows team members to enrich their day-to-day conversations via direct integration with the new Murmurs collaboration feature in Mingle.
“The new features in Mingle 3.0 are designed to turn unstructured communications into a powerful asset for developers, while expanding the reach and visibility managers need when coordinating complex, multiple projects,” said Chad Wathington, vice president of product management for ThoughtWorks Studios. “Together with the integration with Google Wave, Mingle will continue to help developers work the way they like while helping the overall development team work in unison through better collaboration, program visibility and more accurate, flexible reporting.”
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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C: (303) 827-5164
October 28, 2009
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS EXPANDS OPERATIONS IN U.K. WITH NEW CUSTOMERS, EXECUTIVE SUPPORT AND ADAPTIVE ALM SOLUTION
As adoption of Agile software development methodologies continue to increase throughout the U.K. and Europe, ThoughtWorks Studios continues to grow
SAN FRANCISCO AND LONDON, Oct. 28, 2009 – ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today announced its continued expansion of operations within the United Kingdom (U.K.) with a growing customer base of enterprise customers, the addition of support and executive staff in its London office and the deployment of its recently launched Adaptive ALMTM into key client accounts. Most notably, the company’s Agile ALM solutions have been deployed by leading corporate accounts, including Rosetta Stone, BBC, Barclays and thetrainline.com, and Adrian Jones has joined the U.K. team as vice president of sales Europe.
“As organizations look to improve IT efficiencies and performance, the increasing use of Agile development methodologies in the U.K. has led to strong customer demand for tools that help manage and automate the entire software development process,” said Cyndi Mitchell, ThoughtWorks Studios’ managing director, who also is based in London. “With the recent launch of our Adaptive ALM solution and accelerating customer demand, we continue to expand our operations here and look forward to helping more U.K.-based organizations succeed in building better software faster.”
Recent developments within the U.K. include:
Customer growth: ThoughtWorks Studios has seen strong demand and customer growth for its Agile ALM tools throughout the U.K. A prime example is thetrainline.com, the leading U.K. rail ticket retailer. This customer used ThoughtWorks Studios Adaptive ALM solution to help manage its major Agile development initiative that included more than 200 developers and required the re-architecting of a large legacy code base that was built up over multiple years. Using Mingle® as the Agile project management hub, thetrainline.com effectively tracked and managed the status and progress of multiple teams working on highly complex applications. ThoughtWorks Studios’ Cruise® tool helped automate the entire software build and deployment process. The end result is a highly efficient online ticketing system that now contains 46 percent less page views and has trimmed the time to purchase a ticket by almost 60 percent.
Adaptive ALMTM launch: ThoughtWorks Studios has been busy rolling out its new Adaptive ALM solution to existing and new customers throughout the U.K. It is the only fully-automated Agile ALM solution on the market 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.
Appointment of Adrian Jones as Vice President of Sales, Europe: Jones brings more than 25 years of high technology management and enterprise software sales experience to the ThoughtWorks Studios team. Prior experience includes sales leadership positions with Oracle, Versant and Sleepycat Software, a company whose European operation he co-founded in 2004.
“Agile software development methods are helping organizations across the U.K. and Europe achieve strategic business goals and improve customer satisfaction quicker and more effectively,” said Jones. “I am thrilled to join ThoughtWorks Studios and to help customers around the globe transform their IT delivery capability through integrated Agile ALM techniques and tools.”
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 its Agile Workshop series. Backed as an independent division of ThoughtWorks®, the pioneering leader in Agile development and best-practices, ThoughtWorks Studios’ customers include 3M, Honeywell, BBC, eBay, Barclays, Vodafone, McGraw-Hill and Rackspace. 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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Mobile: 303-827-5164
August 17, 2009
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS INTRODUCES ADAPTIVE ALM™ FOR AGILE APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
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.
Media Contact:
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Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760
Mobile: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com
