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April 12, 2011
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS ONLINE MINGLE USER GROUP TO FEATURE ENTERPRISE CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES AND BEST PRACTICES
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 GoTM (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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April 8, 2011
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS RELEASES NEW VERSION OF TWIST FOR IMPROVED AUTOMATED AGILE TESTING
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS RELEASES NEW VERSION OF TWIST FOR IMPROVED AUTOMATED AGILE TESTING
Twist evolves to maintain functional test suites for increasingly complex test applications
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2011 – ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in enterprise Agile development products and services, today announced the latest version of Twist, the company’s automated test solution. New features help development teams release quality software faster through improved support for larger and more complex test suites, and new feedback capabilities that allow teams to build test suites in conjunction with Twist’s refactoring support.
“A key component to a successful Agile ALM strategy is tool support that maintains robust automated regression suites. To that end, analyzing test suites to find duplication and opportunities for improvement is a significant step forward in making the evolution of those test suites easier,” said Chad Wathington, vice president, product development for ThoughtWorks Studios. “Twist’s inherent ease-of-use and new features make it an ideal component for IT organizations looking to expand the scope of Agile beyond small teams and avoid the traditional limitations of manual testing.”
Twist provides an intuitive user experience to create highly robust and reusable test automation frameworks for both manual and functional automated tests. Along with Mingle (Agile project management) and Go (Agile release management), Twist is an integral part of ThoughtWorks Studios’ Agile ALM solution. It provides continuous visibility into testing activities across distributed projects and teams, and supports enterprise Agile projects by combining requirements and test specification managementand creation. Twist provides a reusable, multi-platform testing capability that ensures testing keeps pace with application development through increased visibility and feedback of Agile testing activities throughout the application lifecycle.
“Twist enabled the business to deliver a higher quality product,” said Stuart Taylor, delivery manager for AutoTrader.co.uk, the United Kingdom’s number one automotive website. “Fewer production defects reduced operation costs. Increased confidence in the product’s quality has allowed a higher frequency release schedule that delivers larger pieces of functionality.”
New features in Twist 2.2 include:
- Scenario Analyzer: users can now analyze test suites and identify patterns of test steps that are repeatedly used within a test suite. They can use the existing “extract concept” and “push to implementation” refactoring features to simplify the structure of the test suite.
- Saved Filters: users can now organize tests by saving tag combinations: users can more efficiently manage test suites through improved navigation when reading and maintaining tests.
- Record Multiple Steps: users can now record multiple test steps sequentially in the same recording session, allowing for faster recording while ensuring that tests are recorded at an atomic level, making them easier to maintain than traditional record and playback tools.
- Additional features of Twist 2.2 include:
- Improved usability when creating and maintaining workflow fixtures.
- Auto-complete now available for parameters.
- Visual reporting for contexts.
- Word wrap in scenario editor.
- Concepts now show contextual data.
- Improved usability for refactoring features.
With Twist teams now have the ability to evolve maintainable functional test suites to test complex applications, with tests that are written in the language of business, not code. It is commonly used as a bridge from manual to automated functional testing, and to support the maintenance of large complex test suites.
For more information or to download a free 30-day trial of Twist please visit: (www.thoughtworks-studios.com/twist)
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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March 28, 2011
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS’ JEZ HUMBLE TO PRESENT ON CONTINUOUS DELIVERY AT 2011 SELENIUM CONFERENCE
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS’ JEZ HUMBLE TO PRESENT ON CONTINUOUS DELIVERY AT 2011 SELENIUM CONFERENCE
Humble to share principles for incremental delivery of software projects and the emergence of Continuous Delivery within enterprise Agile deployments
WHO: Jez Humble
Build and Release Principal
ThoughtWorks Studios
(www.thoughtworks-studios.com)
Humble is author of the highly acclaimed book, Continuous Delivery, and product architect of GoTM, ThoughtWorks Studios’ breakthrough product for enterprise Agile release management. He researches and consults on effective Agile engineering practices, with an emphasis on automating the building, testing and deployment of software, release management, and enabling collaboration between people involved in delivery.
WHAT: ”Continuous Delivery”
Ensuring 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. Humble will explain to attendees how the automation of the build, deployment and testing process improves collaboration between developers, testers and operations. Participants will learn how delivery teams can reduce cycle times and improve the quality of their software and the reliability of the release process.
WHERE: Selenium Conference
Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
609 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
WHEN: Wed. April 6, 2011
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Pacific
For more information or to schedule an interview with Jez Humble, please contact Christie Denniston at 303- 581-7760 or by email at: (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
March 11, 2011
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE MANAGES SCRUM AND HYBRID DEVELOPMENT METHODS WITH THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS’ MINGLE
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 GoTM (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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March 10, 2011
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS JEZ HUMBLE TO PRESENT ON AGILE RELEASE AND DEPLOYMENT MANAGEMENT AT QCON 2011 LONDON
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS JEZ HUMBLE TO PRESENT ON AGILE RELEASE AND DEPLOYMENT MANAGEMENT AT QCON 2011 LONDON
Humble to present practical, useful methods to use remediation patterns to lower the risk of software deployment failures
WHO: Jez Humble
ThoughtWorks Studios
(www.thoughtworks-studios.com)
Humble is build and release principal for ThoughtWorks Studios Agile release management product, GoTM and author of the highly acclaimed book, Continuous Delivery.
WHAT: Remediation Patterns – How To Achieve Low Risk Releases
Deployments gone bad are a leading cause of spending your evening or weekend hunched over a terminal instead of outdoors having fun. In this talk, Humble presents a number of patterns which reduce the risk of releases, including techniques for zero-downtime releases, roll backs and roll forwards. He also will discuss how to build reliable releases into the delivery process using automated provisioning, deployment and smoke testing. By the end of the talk, attendees will understand how to build delivery systems – and teams – that make broken deployments a rare situation which can be fixed at the push of a button.
WHERE: OOP 2011 Conference
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre.
London
WHEN: Thursday, March 10, 2011
4:50 p.m. (GST)
Media and analyst inquiries should be directed to Christie Denniston at 303- 581-7760 or cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com
March 3, 2011
Horne International, Inc. Partners with ThoughtWorks Studios to Provide Lean & Agile Software Development
Horne International, Inc. Partners with ThoughtWorks Studios to Provide Lean & Agile Software Development
Solutions to Federal Enterprise Customers
Fairfax, VA – March 2, 2011 – Horne International, Inc. (OTCBB: HNIN) today announced that it will partner with ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in enterprise Agile development products and services. This will enable Horne to provide federal customers with high-value Lean and Agile software development process solutions utilizing the Mingle® project management solution and ThoughtWorks Studios Agile Workshops, Training and Coaching. In addition to selling directly to the federal government, Horne has also signed an agreement with Intelligent Decisions, a strategic partner, to be a reseller of the ThoughtWorks Studios suite of products and to provide supporting services.
Horne and ThoughtWorks Studios are working together to provide the federal enterprise with a solution that addresses the need for highly reliable, short-cycle delivery of mission critical IT systems. Lean and Agile processes are a proven, superior approach to delivering high-quality systems in less time and more cost effectively than traditional approaches.
“We are excited to offer the federal enterprise the substantial potential for savings in terms of time to value, cost, and the quality it offers to the private sector,” said Darryl K. Horne, P.E., Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Horne International. “As budgets become constrained and systems grow increasingly complicated the need for a lean approach to government solutions with strict accountability and transparency has never been greater. ThoughtWorks Studios products are being successfully used by over 400 companies worldwide.”
Mingle is the Agile project management platform of ThoughtWorks Studios’ Agile ALM suite that includes Twist® (Agile test automation) and GoTM (Agile release management). Mingle’s ease of use helps enable users to quickly apply Agile practices, while its powerful reporting provides the transparency needed by federal enterprise customers. ThoughtWorks Studios Agile Workshops focus on all aspects of the Agile lifecycle and are taught by highly experienced Agile practitioners.
About Horne
Horne International provides engineering services for a sustainable infrastructure, with an emphasis on security, energy, and the environment. The company is a trusted partner for its customers in the defense, environment and energy, homeland security and transportation sectors. For more information, please visit (www.horne.com).
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).
About Intelligent Decisions
Headquartered in Ashburn, VA, Intelligent Decisions (ID), a premier global systems integrator, provides a broad range of innovative, IT professional services, software, hardware and manufacturing solutions to Federal, State and Local governments. Ranked on the VARBusiness 500, Inc. 5000, CRN’s Fast Growth 100 and Washingtonian’s Best Places to Work, ID offers best-value pricing and helps clients meet their strategic goals and mission objectives. For more information, visit (www.intelligent.net).
Forward-Looking Statements
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Contact Information:
Bob Werthmann
Investor Relations
(703) 641-1100, or contact ir@horne.com
February 9, 2011
Five Predictions for 2011
Here is the article by Jez Humble of ThoughtWorks Studios. The article can also be viewed on CM Crossorads at (http://www.cmcrossroads.com/cm-articles/275-articles/13914-five-predictions-for-2011)
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Five Predictions for 2011
Writtern by Jez Humble
I have a serious reservation about writing any kind of article wherein I prognosticate. I’m not worried I’ll be wrong: in fact, it’s almost certain that the opposite of whatever I wish for will actually transpire. This phenomenon is, at least, deterministic.
All of my predictions are based around a truth that I believe to be incontrovertible: the pace of innovation in business is accelerating, and the timespan to arbitrage each individual new opportunity is shrinking. Unfortunately, the capability to provide a quality solution to take advantage of any given opportunity remains maddeningly constant.
Trends
More innovation in the cloud space
One especially surprising event this year was Amazon’s unilateral removal of WikiLeaks content, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “eventual consistency”. Since data management is probably the most painful part of moving services to the cloud (as Andrew Tanenbaum once said, “never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”), and since keeping it secure is essential both to your business retaining its competitive advantage as well as conforming to regulations, organizations will need to consider very carefully the risks of outsourcing data hosting.
Nevertheless, “The Cloud” is a magic phrase that will continue to dominate discussion in the IT world. Both public and private cloud offerings will continue to evolve, both in terms of the number of vendors, their offerings, and the toolchain. However, as the Amazon debacle demonstrates, IT will continue to rely on a combination of traditionally-managed services and cloud-based ones. This heterogeneity will make it painful to create a strategy for adopting cloudy systems in the enterprise.
It will be ever more essential to come up with such a strategy and execute it. The benefits of virtualization (and thus by extension the cloud) for rapid application development, for creating production-like environments for testing purposes, and for scaling up production environments when demand is volatile, are too great a benefit for businesses to ignore them.
What won’t happen: consolidation
Unfortunately evolution in this space is going to proceed too fast for there to be any meaningful consolidation of vendors, or even the toolchain. We’re certainly nowhere near any standards (another quote from Tanenbaum: “The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from”.) This means you need to be careful about the way you design your systems such that there are flexible abstraction layers. The good news is that there’s not that many basic cloud operations so abstraction layers for this stuff aren’t exactly rocket science.
This abstraction layer is, in some ways, the interface between the development team and the operations team, since it’s the operations team that will be managing what’s on the other side of the abstraction layer, which brings us nicely to the next trend.
Enterprises will start to take notice of DevOps
Most enterprises are spending upwards of 70% of their budgets on operations, including maintaining legacy services. However faced with the business imperative of delivering more services more rapidly with more integrations and larger data sets to a rapidly proliferating set of client devices, operations teams are buckling under this pressure.
Broadly speaking, continuous delivery is the answer to this problem. But continuous delivery requires better collaboration between development, testing, and operations, and the application of much automation. This is exactly the focus of the DevOps movement, where DevOps can broadly be characterized as applying agile techniques to the world of operations.
As the speed of delivery increases, the current approach to achieving compliance in enterprises – expensive change management processes and a rigid division between development and operations – will become unmaintainable. Automation and collaboration actually form a very powerful alternative mechanism for managing risk effectively and transparently, but it will take a while for enterprises to understand and switch to this model. Gartner predicts that by 2015 20% of Global 2000 organizations will have adopted strategies from DevOps.
What won’t happen: enterprises actually adopting DevOps
The DevOps approach is so radical it will take some time to cross the chasm, and indeed it will be actively resisted by many organizations where it threatens traditional delivery models and organizational structures. As with other flavors of Agile, many organizations will adopt a version of DevOps that is buzzword compliant, but omits the practices that actually deliver the promised value.
Other predictions
The development of automated security testing tools
Security testing is currently a major bottleneck in the adoption of continuous delivery. Specialized consultancies dominate this field, and as with other kinds of testing, nothing can replace a human in the planning of security testing. However there is a real opportunity to create an integrated tool suite for performing automated testing of applications for security, including penetration testing, static analysis of systems, and injection attack detection for both traditional and newer platforms.
Release management gets serious
Many organizations have a release manager or release engineer who has the responsibility to ensure releases go well, but no real power to actually ensure all the correct dependencies are in place, either technically or organizationally. As organizations need to deploy more frequently, they will have to develop this capability, which will entail better co-operation between the various groups involved in delivering software, and the establishment of good practices that are both agile and compliant with frameworks like ITIL and CoBiT.
It’s going to be almost impossible to hire
The market in Silicon Valley is already tight as a drum, and as the economy slowly starts to move out of recession, it will become almost impossible to hire people who understand the new world of release and configuration management. India and China of course never had a recession, so this is business as usual in those places.
Well, that’s it. As always, I’d love to get your feedback on what you think will be hot this year, and where I’ve got it wrong. Meanwhile, a happy and prosperous 2011 to you and your families.
About the Author Jez Humble is the co-author of Continuous Delivery, published by Addison Wesley. He got into IT in 2000, just in time for the dot com bust. Since then he has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services and on-line retail companies. Since 2004 he has worked for ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorks Studios in Beijing, Bangalore, London and San Francisco. He is presently living in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.
ThoughtWorks Utilizes Software Architecture Management for Enterprise Agile Success
ThoughtWorks Utilizes Software Architecture Management for Enterprise Agile Success
Global leader in Agile provides service using Headway Software’s award winning Structure101 to help IT organizations assess and improve the value of their software assets
Chicago, Feb. 8, 2011, ThoughtWorks, Inc., a global IT consultancy, today announced a new partnership with Headway Software, the creators of the award-winning software architecture management product, Structure101. Among other uses, ThoughtWorks utilizes Structure101 in its Technology Healthcheck service offering that helps IT organizations assess the status of their existing software systems. This hands-on, on-site service uses a variety of open source and commercial tools to ascertain the quality characteristics of the code base. Quality metrics allow organizations to make informed decisions about their software.
“IT organizations strive to be ever more adaptive to customers’ needs. Well-architected software is a key enabler in this regard,” explained Neal Ford and Erik Doernenburg, senior architects with ThoughtWorks. “We chose Structure101 as part of our Technology Healthcheck service so we can deliver a high value service that improves the asset value of our client’s software investments. Our Technology Healthcheck service delivers a series of recommendations that support our clients in migrating towards an improved, cost-effective solution.”
Headway Software CEO, Chris Chedgey said “The quality of software architecture has a major impact on the cost of software development projects. Keep your architecture clean and tangle free and you can deliver more features in less time and at lower cost. We are delighted to have ThoughtWorks, a leading and highly influential global IT consultancy, roll out a service dedicated to analyzing and improving software architecture using Structure 101.”
ThoughtWorks’ Technology Healthcheck offers a way to map even the most complicated systems landscape; its results are concise and have a practical focus – ready to inform tactical decision-making or long-range budgeting and planning. With the cumulative impact of growth, mergers, downturns and market changes, the typical IT base consists of a disparate mix of legacy systems and newer technologies of varying (and often hidden) complexity. Using the most advanced techniques, we go in-depth to measure and report on systems in several dimensions relevant to technical staff and executives.
The Technology Healthcheck creates a roadmap for IT priorities grounded in metrics and presented in a way that speaks plainly to all involved. It is particularly helpful when you are trying to answer specific questions – where investments will be most effective, where and why current platforms are most at risk of breakdown, how to “de-dupe” systems after a merger – or if you need a frank assessment of your portfolio strengths and weaknesses for planning.
About ThoughtWorks
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ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a global IT consultancy providing Agile-based systems development, consulting, and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. It has pioneered many of the most advanced and successful Agile methods of software development and best practices used in the industry today. At its core, ThoughtWorks helps its clients maximize investment and performance across a portfolio of complex, business-critical applications, while reducing time and risk. Its products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, offers tools to manage the entire Agile development lifecycle through its Agile ALM solution, comprised of Mingle®, Go® and Twist®. ThoughtWorks employs 1,500 professionals to serve clients from offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. For more information, please visit www.thoughtworks.com
About Headway Software
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Headway Software is the company that makes software architecture easy, and the first independent software vendor to focus purely on software structure and architectural control; fundamental tenets of building maintainable and extensible software. The company’s Structure101 products use advanced reverse engineering, structural analysis and architectural mapping techniques for Java, .Net, C/C++, and more. Based in Ireland and France, Headway Software is independently owned and operated. Customers include Blackrock, Cantor Fitzgerald, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Euro Bank, Hypoport, UBS, US Bank, Wells Fargo, Zurich, BAE Systems, DCN Naval Systems, European Space Agency, European Commission, NASA, Ebay, Intuit, Netflix, Orbitz, Parametric Technology, SAP, Value Click, VMware, Yahoo, EMC, SonyEricsson, SpringSource, Cochlear, Life Technologies, Phonak, EnBW, and The Financial Times.
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January 27, 2011
THOUGHTWORKS STUDIOS’ MINGLE 3.3 SUPPORTS ENTERPRISE AGILE AND REAL-TIME RELEASE MANAGEMENT
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, GoTM, 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 GoTM (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).
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 http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/www.thoughtworks-studios.com.
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January 26, 2011
THOUGHTWORKS’ MARTIN FOWLER AND JEZ HUMBLE TO PRESENT ON LATEST AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS AT OOP 2011
THOUGHTWORKS’ MARTIN FOWLER AND JEZ HUMBLE TO PRESENT ON LATEST AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS AT OOP 2011
Fowler to present keynote on advancements in software design and co-present with Humble on the rise of Continuous Delivery and its role in the Dev/Ops movement
WHO: Martin Fowler, ThoughtWorks’ (www.thoughtworks.com) Chief Scientist, is an author, consultant and international speaker on software development, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns and Agile software development methodologies, including Extreme Programming. He has written six books on the topic of software development and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, along with more than 15 co-authors.
Jez Humble, ThoughtWorks Studios’ (www.thoughtworks-studios.com) build and release principal for the Agile release management product, GoTM, and author of the highly acclaimed book, Continuous Delivery.
WHAT: Continuous Delivery – Jez Humble and Martin Fowler
Mon., Jan. 24, 2011
This tutorial outlines the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable and new functionality to users and includes many interactive exercises. Through automation of the build, deployment and testing process, and improved collaboration, teams can have changes released continuously.
At the heart of the tutorial is a pattern called the deployment pipeline, which involves the creation of a living system that models your organization’s value stream for delivering software. Humble will introduce this pattern and discuss how to incrementally automate the build, test and deployment process, culminating in continuous deployment. He will then describe an Agile infrastructure to automate the management of testing and production environments. Development practices that enable incremental development and delivery will be covered at length as well as how practices such as branch by abstraction and componentization provide approaches that enable large and distributed teams to deliver incrementally.
Keynote: Software Design in the 21st Century – Martin Fowler
Tues., Jan. 25, 2011
In the last decade or so we have seen a number of new ideas added to the mix to help us effectively design software. Patterns help capture the solutions and rationale for using them. Refactoring allows us to alter the design of a system after the code is written. Agile methods, in particular Extreme Programming, give us a highly iterative and evolutionary approach which is particularly well suited to changing requirements and environments. Fowler has been a leading voice in these techniques and will give a suite of short talks featuring various aspects about his recent thinking about how these and other developments affect software development.
WHERE: OOP 2011 Conference
ICM International Congress Center
Munich, Germany
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