SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4, 2009 (PR Newswire Europe) -- v>

- Development teams can collaborate via enterprise IM chat that is tied to specific Mingle(R) artifacts for on-demand review, new reporting extends across multiple projects

Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2009 -- ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today unveiled a major new release of its Mingle(R) project management tool. Features of Mingle 3.0 focus on new levels of collaborative communication and extending reporting and manager visibility across multiple projects for improved program management. In line with its new online collaboration capabilities, Mingle also is being integrated with Google Wave (see today's release: (ThoughtWorks Studios to Demo Mingle Integration with Google Wave for Agile ALM) to further improve the communication and efficiency of development teams.

"Having the ability to centralize a range of unstructured communications and associate them collectively with a specific project artifact will reduce wasted time sifting through past correspondence to stay on task," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. "This new version of Mingle also provides managers with new levels of visibility on progress and how resources are being used across multiple projects."

Mingle is the project management component of ThoughtWorks Studios' recently launched Adaptive ALM(TM), a complete development solution that includes Twist(R) (test automation) and Cruise(R) (release management). The result is a fully automated 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.

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." Murmurs(TM) captures conversations that would otherwise have been lost through unstructured communications - such as IM chats, emails, etc. - and instantly associates team conversations with Mingle project artifacts. All software development team members can share ideas, better track progress in real-time, and improve intra-team and cross-team visibility and traceability. The first external integration of Murmurs uses Jabber chat. -- Program Management Capabilities - new program-level management features provide cross-project visibility, traceability and extended reporting capabilities. It includes a pre-built cross-project reporting macro and extends the Macro Developer Tool Kit to enable flexible reporting from multiple projects in real time.