ThoughtWorks Studios Integrates Cruise With Perforce to Scale Large, Distributed Enterprise Agile Programs

Integration of Cruise release management with Perforce provides real- time visibility into software releases and speeds release cycles

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, March 24, 2010 - ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global
leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today announced support for the
integration of its Cruise(R) release management product with Perforce
(www.perforce.com), the leading software configuration management
(SCM) system. Building on the existing Mingle(R) project management
integration, the combination of Cruise and Perforce will provide large Agile
development organizations with the ideal solution to scale rapidly and
overcome the challenges of distributed development - resulting in faster
time-to-market, higher quality software, reduced risk and improved customer
responsiveness. The integrated solution has already delivered exceptional
results at Caplin Systems, a global leader in single-dealer platform
e-commerce solutions for financial institutions.

"Caplin Systems is a great showcase for how integrating release
management and the Perforce SCM system can help large Agile development
organizations build complex software products faster, and with a higher
degree of confidence," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director of ThoughtWorks
Studios. "As Agile software development methods penetrate more deeply into
the enterprise, good software engineering practice becomes even more critical
to building high-quality systems that are easy to change and release. This
integration will further enable our Adaptive ALM solution meets those needs,
ensuring that large-scale continuous integration systems do not create a
bottleneck as programs get more complex."

With the Perforce and Cruise solution, IT managers and business
stakeholders now have a high-performance system that provides end-to-end
visibility and access to a highly-scalable and integrated release management
and continuous integration system.

"Combining the Perforce SCM system with the Cruise release management
tool delivers new levels of visibility and a much quicker feedback loop when
working through potential integration issues that can slow the production
process," said Andrew MacLeod, software architect for Caplin Systems.
"Cruise's unique pipeline of deployment stages across a parallel build grid
has allowed unprecedented visibility into change. Even as the number of
acceptance tests grows significantly, the break-fix-verify cycle from
developer check-in to working software has sped up by a factor of almost 50.
Having the confidence to run as many builds as we like has greatly improved
the end-quality of our software and our ability to quickly meet the needs of
our customers," said MacLeod.

By using this combination of tools, development work is automatically
updated, providing real time visibility and traceability - from managing
artifacts (source code and related artifacts), tying changes made to source
code within Perforce to related development artifacts within Mingle and
Cruise. Additionally, managers can view the status of any software project
through dashboards and ensure what goes into production meets business
requirements. "By introducing the Cruise pipeline, we guarantee that each
part gets built using the right version of the code and the right libraries,"
said MacLeod.

Perforce is an award-winning SCM tool that versions and manages source
code and digital assets for enterprises large and small. It seamlessly
handles distributed development and supports developers across a large number
of platforms. Integrated with Cruise and Mingle, developers can monitor every
change that is checked into Perforce, quickly build from the latest version
of applications and run automated tests against it. The end-result is
"push-button" deployments into manual testing, staging and production
environments.

"Perforce supports a scalable Agile workflow by providing a fast SCM
system that allows developers to quickly work and comprehend the effect of
their changes," said John Walker, senior marketing manager at Perforce
Software. "Through our integrations with Mingle and Cruise we are helping
customers like Caplin Systems better manage their high-volume production
environments."

To read the full case study on how Caplin Systems used Perforce and
ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM solution together to overcome the
challenges of scaling a large Agile development organization, please visit:
(www.thoughtworks-studios.com/sites/files/studios/misc/cruise-caplin-s
ystems-case-study.pdf).

About Perforce Software

Founded in 1995, Perforce Software Inc. develops, markets and supports
Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System. Perforce
Software is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., and sells worldwide. The
company has international operations in Europe, Japan, and Australia. In
addition to application software companies, Perforce customers represent a
broad range of industries including game development, electronics,
pharmaceutical and financial services.

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(R) (project management) Twist(R) (test
automation) and Cruise(R) (release management), are available as an
integrated solution or as stand-alone products. Through its ThoughtWorks
Agile Workshops series, the company also provides in-depth training courses
that cover all aspects of Agile ALM. Backed as an independent division of
ThoughtWorks(R), 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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