Mingle maximizes your business-responsiveness as it is built to adapt to constantly changing business priorities. Mingle’s usability-rich interface empowers your global development team with a shared team space.

Your team can easily collaborate in a thousand ad hoc ways, based on your defined baseline process such as Scrum, XP, Hybrid.

As Mingle is used day-to-day by your entire team it contains complete, real-time and true-to-life project activity. This provides your entire team visibility to ensure that projects/programs are inline with business vision.

PRODUCT FEATURES

Card Wall
Mingle allows you to create virtual Card Walls, that help track user stories, defects, tasks, risks/issues, etc. Drag and drop cards to prioritize or to show progress. Card Walls make collaboration easier and more effective, with a clear view of what is happening in the project and which team member is working on what.

Card Trees
This groundbreaking new feature allows you to get a broad, overall view of the project ("The Forest") and also dive down into details when necessary. Handle complex projects easily by visually demonstrating to team members how requirements are structured and decomposed. Break down complex requirements into simpler component stories

Integrated Wiki
Mingle provides you with an integrated wiki that helps develop rich requirements documentation, including supporting attachments, enabling effective collaboration with team members.

Reports
Mingle enables you to generate real-time, out-of-the-box reports (like burn-down charts, velocity, etc) to track project progress. Leverage powerful reporting tools to report across multiple projects that you manage. Mingle lets you roll your own reports based on your project's unique requirements.

Custom Properties and Transitions
Mingle provides customizable properties, which you can use to define the structure of your project. Progress cards through the development life cycle. Ensure that your development process is adhered to. Define and track attributes across cards, which can be rolled up to report on the parent card.

USER BENEFITS

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. With Mingle, Project Management is a natural off-shoot of Project Collaboration: plan, manage and report based on what team members are actually doing, and mitigate delivery risk.

Release & Iteration Planning: Adapt to Changing Requirements
Today's Agile business environment demands that software teams adapt quickly to rapidly changing requirements, and yet produce high-quality software with each iteration and release. With the industry's best user interface, Mingle makes it easy to manage product backlogs, decompose and schedule requirements, trace dependencies and track feature completeness.

Tracking & Reporting: Real-time Data, Real-time Decisions
Incomplete and unreliable data is the bane of the Project Manager. Without accurate information it is impossible to track project progress and identify risks and red flags early. Not with Mingle, though. Used by project teams daily, it holds real-time data that can be used to generate timely and actionable reports - including burn-down charts, velocity tables etc.

Program Management: One-click Visibility Across Projects
When you are in charge of running a program, it is vitally important to gain visibility across projects, so that you can allocate resources and manage constraints effectively. Mingle provides you with all the tools you need to do so. And by integrating with Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems like Subversion, it helps you make sure that vital compliance requirements are addressed.

With 16 years of Agile delivery proficiency, ThoughtWorks has globally pioneered Agile best practices. This expertise has fuelled ThoughtWorks Studios, our software division, to create ingenious solutions built from the ground-up with Agile principles that adapt to your unique Agile needs. Our products are used as enablers for sustainable Agile adoption by 200+ customers in 24 countries. Our Adaptive ALM solution comprising of Mingle (project management), Twist (test automation) and Cruise (release management) provides a platform for managing all aspects of the software development lifecycle.

For more information, please visit www.thoughtworks.com/studios

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Chicago, IL 60601-6501
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written by Douglas Robinson, July 20, 2009

It would be nice to include some screen shots. Thank you.

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