Can You Build a Financial Exchange Without Losing Your Shirt?

Three groups working across two sites implement Mingle to allow them to develop product that provides consumers access to financial instruments.

London-based Tradefair Ltd., is a financial trading exchange pioneer in online sports gambling. Having decided to chart a different course, the companies developers needed a flexible tool to track the continuous delivery of working software in a demanding and “disruptive” domain.

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“Mingle allows us to keep our focus on agile planning and tracking across two sites and have an easily coordinated view into the project – we simply couldn’t do that with a card wall. ”

Dave Farley, Head of Software Development

The Challenge

Bringing high-end financial trading to the internet.
Building the highest performance financial exchange in the world.
Tradefair embraced esoteric uses of Java, as well as demanding approaches to the computer science, architecture and software development.

How did Mingle help?

Ability to take process template and modified beyond recognition.
Virtual drag-and-drop card wall serves as a permanent repository for the dispersed team.
Allowed continual process refinement.
Ability to defined cards and use the story tree facility to functionally organize them.
Tracking the average software development velocity over a period, using that data as the for basis of all planning assumptions.

The Results

Having adopted Mingle at the dawn of the company, there is no before-and-after picture, the client believes:

They would not have had the flexibility needed to change our process within any other tool.
Multi-site company would have been quite tricky without Mingle.

Read the full Tradefair Case Study (PDF)

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