tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2008:/2007/3/6/how-to-mingle/comments Mephisto Drax 2007-05-29T00:17:58Z Jeremy tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2007-03-06:53:338 2007-05-25T21:24:29Z 2007-05-25T21:24:29Z It's very interesting... Cyndi, Thats really great news. Cyndi Mitchell tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2007-03-06:53:234 2007-04-26T06:34:47Z 2007-04-26T06:34:47Z It certainly gives a huge boost to distributed teams. But another big reason is tracking and reporting even on co-located teams. It's nice to have a single place to capture requirements, estimates, actuals, priorities, issues, risks, etc. This makes it easy to generate status reports for the various stakeholders and easily keeps everyone on the same page. There are many tools out there already that do this. But many teams don't like to use them because they go against the grain of how they like to work. As soon as the tool gets in their way the team slows down and eventually they will stop using it altogether (or use it only when their manager forces them to). If it slows them down, they get less work done. If they stop using it, the data in the tool falls out of synch with the "data" in the team room. Either way, it's not great. So our goal is to make Mingle the tool that teams using big visible charts, story walls, etc. actually want to use. This of course means it has to mold to the way they want to work. Roberto Ferrara tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2007-03-06:53:227 2007-04-25T02:43:09Z 2007-04-25T02:43:09Z As you described, if a team is doing project management using big visible charts, story walls and etc why would they need a tool like Mingle? Are you recommending this tool for distributed teams? Zac Zavos tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2007-03-06:53:75 2007-04-03T01:12:09Z 2007-04-03T01:12:09Z Hi Mike, a quick search on agile project management will bring back lots of competitors, both open source and commercial. All the products approach Agile software delivery in a different way. We're focusing on what we hear from our customers and teams on what they need in a tool to manage and deliver agile projects. As Cyndi writes, the highly visual elements of good projects and up to date reporting are an important part of Mingle. Mike W tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2007-03-06:53:73 2007-04-02T15:45:18Z 2007-04-02T15:45:18Z Are there any existing tools that will already do this kind of thing? Who are your competitors? Claudio Perrone tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2007-03-06:53:63 2007-03-26T12:22:55Z 2007-03-26T12:22:55Z Excellent news, I'm looking forward to see it in action! Zac Zavos tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2007-03-06:53:56 2007-03-12T07:11:48Z 2007-03-12T07:11:48Z Hi Alan, We'll be putting screenshots up very shortly. Sign-up for the blog-alerts to be alerted when this happens. Alan Francis tag:mingle.thoughtworks.com,2007-03-06:53:55 2007-03-09T15:43:47Z 2007-03-09T15:43:47Z Hi Cyndi, Are there any screenshots available ? A.