Mingle - Agile Project Management: Features and Benefits

When your project tool supports, captures and visualizes all team activity, it is easy to keep track of status and make real-time decisions. Save time and effort with self-sustaining Agile project management that is a natural offshoot of project collaboration.

Highlights:

• Configurable XP, SCRUM, Agile Hybrid templates, card types, properties, views and transitions
• Multiple customizable dashboards
• Import/Export from Microsoft Excel
• Configurable transition workflow generators
• Macro development toolkit

Today's Agile business environment demands quick adaptability to changing business priorities. Mingle® is designed with industry-proven usability best practices, which makes it easy to manage product backlogs, decompose and schedule requirements, trace dependencies and track completeness of features.

Highlights:

• Hierarchical card trees
• Prioritized card ranking
• In-built macros and an intuitive query language
• Auto-update of existing cards with changed properties

Mingle^® is used by project teams daily and holds real-time data that can be used to swiftly generate timely and actionable reports. It tracks the project accurately and identifies risks with real-time information and easy reporting.

Highlights:

• Customizable XP, SCRUM, Agile Hybrid templates
• Customizable tabs, favorites and views
• Advanced filtering on cards, properties and tags
• On the fly reports, burn-down charts and velocity tables
• Daily History Chart

Mingle gives you the critical visibility you need across projects, so that you can allocate resources and manage constraints effectively. Easy plug-in integration with a host of tools also addresses vital compliance requirements.

Highlights:

• Customizable XP, SCRUM, Agile Hybrid templates
• Customizable tabs, favorites and views
• Macro Development Tool Kit to write reporting macros with data drawn from multiple projects.^{New in 3.0}
• Advanced filtering on cards, properties and tags
• On the fly reports, burn-down charts and velocity tables
• Track-able Change History based on type, status and team member.

Mingle enables accurate and consistent testing as it tightly couples project requirements with their tests and possible defects. It also gives the team visibility on bug status, tester utilization, testing progress and risky areas of the project.

Highlights:

• Visual Defect Workflows
• Bug-Story Links
• RSS and Email Test Alerts
• Comments and History per card
• Wiki Support for screenshots and attachments

Mingle further accelerates adoption of Agile concepts and Mingle best practices with instructional videos and detailed explanations on fundamental Agile concepts. Additionally, our Agile Application Lifecycle Management solution extends the flexibility and usability of Mingle to Agile testing with Twist, and Agile Release Management with Go. In addition our interactive workshops, webinars by industry experts and Agile resources enable you to get optimal business value from Agile.

Highlights:

• Agile Application Lifecycle Management with Mingle, Twist and Go.
• Enriched context-sensitive Mingle Help provides detailed explanations and instructional videos on fundamental Agile concepts and Mingle best practices. These include guidelines based on ThoughtWorks' extensive experience in Agile delivery on a host of concepts such as, team retrospectives, team stand-ups, setup projects, planning, workflows, tracking, team processes, reporting, requirements and more.
• Interactive training and coaching by Agile experts.
• Agile webinars, whitepapers and other resources.
• Dedicated solutions team and product support.