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Project management software offers a place to mingle


By David Rubinstein


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November 4, 2009 —  To further its Adaptive ALM solution, ThoughtWorks Studios has released an update of its Mingle project management tool with a sharper focus on collaboration and program management. The product, announced today, is being demonstrated at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.

In the area of collaboration, ThoughtWorks has created something called Mingle “Murmurs.” This component of the project management tool facilities communication between stakeholders by providing an open IM environment.

“Think of it as group project chat meets Twitter,” said Chad Wathington, vice president of product development. The stream becomes the central point of communication on a project, he explained, and the software has the ability to link conversations to project artifacts for greater context. The communication can also be archived to create a historical record of work and commentary on a given project, he said.

Advances in the program management area include a new macro development toolkit that lets developers build their own macros for reporting that can pull in data from a number of different projects, Wathington said. Links that tie in content from different projects can also be created. A new Macro Creator for developers provides a GUI editor with select boxes to pull data into the macros for custom reports and charts, he added.

Mingle 3.0 also has an integration with Tasktop Pro, the commercial version of the Eclipse Mylyn project for project management. The connector lets Mingle users take advantage of the time-tracking feature within Tasktop Pro, so hours can be tabulated to Mingle project cards for improved visibility into how long each task is taking, Wathington explained.

“The new features in Mingle 3.0 are designed to turn unstructured communications into a powerful asset for developers, while expanding the reach and visibility managers need when coordinating complex, multiple projects,” he said.

Mingle is one of the three legs of the company’s Adaptive ALM suite, along with Twist for test automation and Cruise for release management. The tools cover everything from requirements definition and project management to test automation, quality assurance and release management, according to Cyndi Mitchell, managing director of ThoughtWorks.

Wave of the future
ThoughtWorks also announced it will integrate Mingle with Google Wave, Google's software for social communication. Google Wave is in beta release, and the integration will not be released until the Google software becomes publicly available sometime next year, Wathington said.

“Google Wave is their answer to replacing e-mail,” he said. “There are threaded conversations, you can add people, IM, and edit it like a wiki page. It gives you the ability to programmatically interact with the document you’re working [on].”

The integration will support agile program management by providing card views of projects within Google Wave, helping managers set priorities and shift resources as needed.




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11/05/2009 01:13:36 PM EST

Another great tool for managing projects and tasks is JobTraQ found at www.JobTraQ.com

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