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, December 9 - ThoughtWorks Studios (www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in
Agile ALM tools and training, today announced it is shipping Mingle(R) 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 ALM(TM) 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(R) (test
automation) and Cruise(R) (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(TM)." 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 Jabber(TM)
      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(R) 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 US$566 per user, per year. For more information or to
download a free trial please visit
www.thoughtworks-studios.com/mingle-agile-project-management/mingle-re
leasing-with-murmurs. The ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle Mylyn Connector is
available now and included in Tasktop Pro for US$99. A free Tasktop Pro trial
is available from 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
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(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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