tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008:/2008/2/19/forest-for-the-trees/comments Mephisto Noh-Varr 2008-04-09T08:47:14Z Simon tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1016 2008-04-04T11:23:00Z 2008-04-04T11:23:00Z I have been trying 2.0 EA at a client site (f500 regulated beast). I must say, it's an impressive release. I can go into the the +/- of each feature and how it compares to V1 and Rally, but that's not what's standing out in my mind. And forget about the elegance of the UI. I think Mingle sets a new standard in the area of human factors. What I have noticed since the 1st release is, these guys are churning out software FAST! If you have not seen 2.0, take a look at it. Email the Mingle guys and ask them for access. In my view, the have surpassed V1 and Rally. So, the question that I have put forward to my client is, for each of the vendors you are looking at, where will they be 6 months from today? My take is, Mingle will trounce the rest of the market for a few reasons: 1) they really seem to know how to build software that humans want to use. 2) they know how to build it fast. they seem to have a 75% speed advantage 3) they are not locking you in to a given approach. Mingle is something special in its ability to give you exactly what you need from a process and reporting perspective, but also be 100% process agnostic out of the box. 4) the people i spoke to there said they have over 100 million in sales, so they are not your typical start-up hoping to make it or get bought. Note, this 100M # includes the parent, who owns the software group. Anyway, it's good stuff. I would love to see what their dev team/approach/environment looks like. Probably can learn a lot from that as well. HEY MINGLERS, PUBLISH A WHITE PAPER ON THE BUILDING OF MINGLE!!!! P.S. I am not one of those ruby wild eyed kids... Eli Weir tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1015 2008-03-28T10:53:00Z 2008-03-28T10:53:00Z @Rusty - As somone who has used both Rally and V1, I can state that hosting your own installation of V1 gives you superfast performance. Using their hosted trial is not a good indication of the power or flexibility of the package. As to Mingle, I have watched the product evoloution with interest, and 2.0 has me itching for a trial. Rusty tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1014 2008-03-21T01:37:00Z 2008-03-21T01:37:00Z I have to throw a bg, 'huh?" out with regards to performance. I am simultaneously evaluating mingle, rallyDev and versionOne. RallyDev performs quite well but V1 is not cutting the mustard. Both are hosted solutions. I would expect their hardware to outperform our small office setup. I have Mingle installed on an HP Athlon personal computer with 3G ram and its mighty fast. On that machine I only have cruisecontrol.net, subversion and mingle. My 2cent is that Mingle performs very well for what it does. Keep the change... Chris Sellers tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1013 2008-03-20T10:49:00Z 2008-03-20T10:49:00Z Pretty please!!! Love, love, love the Mingle interface, but hate, hate, hate the performance :( Ben Scherrey tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1012 2008-03-16T12:58:00Z 2008-03-16T12:58:00Z We're very interested in trying out Mingle 2.0. We gave 1.0 and 1.1 a shot but they were resource pigs and not quite ready for prime time - at least not worth the price being asked. We hope 2.0's gonna break that issue for us... are we there yet? ...are we there yet? ...are we there yet? :) markm tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1011 2008-03-14T03:34:00Z 2008-03-14T03:34:00Z Any update on the 2.0 release? Card trees are pretty essential for Mingle to work well with Scrum. Clemens tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1010 2008-03-08T06:50:00Z 2008-03-08T06:50:00Z This looks great. Some old approaches (stepwise refinement, functional decomposition) seem renaissancing ;-) I manage projects, where packaged applications (standard ERP and other "out-of-to-box"-software) are introduced into business. And these packages are huge, not stories, not story trees, not epics, but sagas! Hierarchies are needed to breakdown these sagas into chewable chunks! I can hardly wait to see 2.0, pls keep me informed. Celso Pinto tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1009 2008-02-28T04:42:00Z 2008-02-28T04:42:00Z Will it be possible for a card to have multiple parents? For example, can a task be related to multiple stories? Ketan Padegaonkar tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1008 2008-02-27T03:07:00Z 2008-02-27T03:07:00Z The screenshots look amazing. When do mere mortals like us get to see this ? Rik Meijer tag:studios.thoughtworks.com,2008-02-19:1006:1007 2008-02-25T11:38:00Z 2008-02-25T11:38:00Z This is great ! We are currently evaluating your product for use at our academic institution and this really is the feature we currently miss (and better memory use...yes..) Keep up the good work ! Thanks, Rik Meijer - Student @ Avans Netherlands