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 Mingle® empowers your team to operate and collaborate efficiently and flexibly, based on a baseline process such as Scrum or XP. As your people and team gain expertise and momentum, Mingle adapts and thus maximizes your responsiveness to business changes.
Mingle doesn’t force a process on you; instead it helps you find the Agile process that works best for you. It provides a shared workspace that your globally distributed teams use to stay on the same page with all stakeholders. Since Mingle always holds the most current project/program data, you get true-to-life visibility in a customized format that works best for you.
Product Features
Virtual card wall for one-glance project status: Give your global team complete visibility with Mingle’s virtual card wall that gives real-time project status at one glance. The usability rich wall enables your team to visually track stories and defects, prioritize requirements and change status with the ease of drag-and-drop. Customize multiple dashboards for various stakeholders with flexible features to group, sort, color and filter stories, defects and releases for enhanced visual impact.
Full Wiki support for seamless documentation: Mingle comes with an integrated, formatting-rich Wiki that gives your team a simple and quick collaborative platform for project documentation. Visually express story narratives, record acceptance criteria, upload project documents, insert graphics and post project information with built-in support for tables, charts, rich formatting, attaching objects and links.
Change notification via RSS and Email: Mingle keeps you in sync with project changes with Email and RSS notifications. Stay updated on the status of a card, a customized card wall view, or even the whole project, by way of RSS feeds and email in Mingle. For instance a Tester on your team can be alerted whenever a particular story card is "Development Complete."
History and Comments for the complete picture: Mingle enables you to record comments on stories, defects, releases, issues, etc. and displays them on the story page itself. Mingle also holds all status changes and story property modifications in an easy-to-read, chronological and searchable history. This collated view of all team activity, opinions and actions from project inception, provides valuable details and reasoning behind the evolution of the story, issue or project as a whole.
Murmurs – Project Collaboration redefined: With Murmurs, Mingle breaks new ground in project collaboration by enabling you to capture relevant data that comes out of day-to-day conversations and IM chats, and associates them to projects artifacts. This enables everyone on your team gets the complete context of the story/issue without communication lapses and repetitive data loops. Mingle allows you to effortlessly weave customer ideas, enhancements and modifications into the Murmurs stream, better aligning software with business realities. Ease networking and communication between your distributed teams and clients, with features privy to popular social networking sites.
Benefits to the User
Project Collaboration: One Shared Space for the Entire Team:
Developers, Testers and Business Experts not on the same page? Enhanced visibility, efficient management and successful delivery are synergic offshoots of cohesive collaboration. Mingle simplifies and amplifies collaboration by providing one shared space for your entire team to view requirements, track story status, manage tests and defects. Mingle 3.0, the latest Mingle release, takes project collaboration to a new level with “Murmurs” by organizing and creating value in unstructured project-related conversations and IM chats.
Project collaboration: One shared workspace
Collaborate real-time in a highly customizable web-space, capture and organize requirements, share documents, report defects and track status.
Highlights:
- Virtual drag-n-drop card walls
- Integrated wiki
- RSS feeds and email alerts
- MurmursTM (New in 3.0)
- Personal queues
- Comments and history per Card
Project management: Software delivery simplified
When your project tool supports, captures and visualizes all team activity, it is easy to keep track of status and make real-time decisions. Save time and effort with self-sustaining Agile project management that is a natural offshoot of project collaboration.
Highlights:
- Configurable XP, SCRUM, Agile Hybrid templates, card types, properties, views and transitions
- Multiple customizable dashboards
- Import/Export from Microsoft Excel
- Configurable transition workflow generators
- Macro development toolkit
Release and iteration planning: In-built responsiveness
Today's Agile business environment demands quick adaptability to changing business priorities. Mingle® is designed with industry-proven usability best practices, which makes it easy to manage product backlogs, decompose and schedule requirements, trace dependencies and track completeness of features.
Highlights:
- Hierarchical card trees
- Prioritized card ranking
- In-built macros and an intuitive query language
- Auto-update of existing cards with changed properties
Tracking and reporting: Real-time relevant metrics
Mingle® is used by project teams daily and holds real-time data that can be used to swiftly generate timely and actionable reports. It tracks the project accurately and identifies risks with real-time information and easy reporting.
Highlights:
- Customizable XP, SCRUM, Agile Hybrid templates
- Customizable tabs, favorites and views
- Advanced filtering on cards, properties and tags
- On the fly reports, burn-down charts and velocity tables
- Track-able Change History based on type, status and team member.
Program Management: Cross-project visibility at a glance
Mingle gives you the critical visibility you need across projects, so that you can allocate resources and manage constraints effectively. Easy plug-in integration with a host of tools also addresses vital compliance requirements.
Highlights:
- Customizable XP, SCRUM, Agile Hybrid templates
- Customizable tabs, favorites and views
- Macro Development Tool Kit to write reporting macros with data drawn from multiple projects.New in 3.0
- Advanced filtering on cards, properties and tags
- On the fly reports, burn-down charts and velocity tables
- Track-able Change History based on type, status and team member.
Test Management: Visual and Accurate Defect Tracking
Mingle enables accurate and consistent testing as it tightly couples project requirements with their tests and possible defects. It also gives the team visibility on bug status, tester utilization, testing progress and risky areas of the project.
Highlights:
- Visual Defect Workflows
- Bug-Story Links
- RSS and Email Test Alerts
- Comments and History per card
- Wiki Support for screenshots and attachments
Support Management: No-fuss Integration Capabilities
Mingle fits in easily with your current software with plug-in integration support for a variety of tools. The power of Mingle can also be extended with Twist the Test Management platform and Cruise the Release Management tool for smoother application lifecycle management.
Highlights:
- REST-ful API support
- LDAP/AD support and Single Sign-On
- Subversion 1.5, Oracle and and SCM Plug-in Integration
- Web-based, single-click install.
- Extensible Application Lifecycle Management
COMPANY INFORMATION
ThoughtWorks kick-started the Agile business era with pioneering software delivery practices and world-leading open source software. Today, clients approach us to solve their toughest business problems, and we deliver some of the world’s most sophisticated custom applications to over a hundred world-class companies. Our products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, was established in 2006 to make cutting-edge Agile Application Life Cycle Management Solutions, like Mingle (Agile Project Management), Cruise (Continuous Integration and Release Management) and Twist (Functional Testing). For more information, please visit ThoughtWorks
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