ThoughtWorks Studios Releases Enhanced Mingle to Extend its Leadership in Agile Project Management Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, October 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mingle now offers enhanced flexibility to facilitate large scale Agile Enterprise adoption

ThoughtWorks Studios (http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com), a global leader in Agile management and engineering solutions, today announced the availability of Mingle® 3.4, the latest release of its Agile project management solution. Mingle, along with Go™ Agile release management and Twist® Agile testing solutions forms the Adaptive ALM™ - the comprehensive Agile ALM suite that helps IT organizations achieve excellence in Agile software management and engineering practices. Mingle adapts your company's processes to Agile best practices, and helps your teams stay on top of evolving requirements in collaboration with business users. As a system-of-record for all software initiatives, it presents the actionable insight you need in order to ensure they make it to market fast.

"Offering flexibility to practitioners so they can adapt to their specific requirements and constraints is a fundamental Agile principle and core to Mingle. The Multi-Dimensional Card Walls further extend Mingle's flexibility and enables a rich set of use-cases applicable in various Agile project management tasks," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director of ThoughtWorks Studios.

ThoughtWorks Studios is organizing an online webinar on Oct. 12, 2011 where Orange (France Telecom) will present about how they have taken advantage of Mingle's benefits to facilitate enterprise-wide adoption of Agile practices and also discuss the application of the Multi-Dimensional Card Wall feature.

"At Orange, innovation and efficiency are always in the priorities top list. Agile methodologies fit perfectly in our values. After working for more than 4 years on Agile methodologies, we have performed to succeed in industrializing Agile project management into our complex environment, and Mingle greatly helps us. We don't adapt to Mingle's proposed methodology. On the contrary, Mingle's incredible flexibility allows us to manage each project in a unique and fully adapted way. We now propose to entirely manage an Agile project with Mingle, from requirements to bug management. A part of our Agile quality system relies on Mingle!" says Remy Genin, Chief Agile Evangelist & Director of Agile Methodologies at Orange. Remy will be representing Orange in the upcoming webinar.

About ThoughtWorks Studios

ThoughtWorks Studios provides Agile ALM products and training. A division of the Agile consultancy, ThoughtWorks, Inc., it offers the tools, coaching and experience to help companies realize the full potential of Agile-based development in the enterprise. Its Adaptive ALM™ suite, Mingle® (Agile project management), Twist® (Agile test automation) and Go™ (Agile release management/DevOps), helps organizations manage and automate the application lifecycle through an adaptive approach that supports people and processes. Its Agile Workshops deliver training for all facets of Agile ALM practices. Customers include 3M, Barclays, BBC, eBay, Honeywell, McGraw-Hill, Rackspace and Vodafone. For more information, please visit http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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