Dream It... Done.
Note to the humor-challenged: This was an April Fools' Joke. There is no Proj-o-matic. Get over it. If you can.
Mingle Proj-o-matic, a revolutionary new feature in Mingle,
completely automates the software development process.
Highly intuitive and powerfully predictive, this feature does away with the need to hire a large team of developers,
testers and analysts for creating software. Simply create the story cards and watch as Mingle handles the rest!
How Proj-o-matic works.
Benefits of Mingle Proj-o-matic
- Say good-bye to off-shoring and meetings with difficult developers. All you need are the business experts.
- Bring time-to-market to near-zero through massive parallelization of the development process.
- Proj-o-matic works for you 24/7, since it is based on Amazon's Mechanical Turk™.
- No more uncertain deadlines. With real time project metrics, Mingle diagrams will predict precisely what day the project will complete.
The impact of Proj-o-matic.
- Maintainability through full regression test suites.
- Choose your technology: Proj-o-matic probably already supports your language of choice.
Just some of the languages Proj-o-matic supports.
- Slash licensing costs considerably as the entire infrastructure is open source.
- Throttle the speed of your IT projects simply by allocating more money to them. The more expensive the Mechanical
Turk™ task, the faster it is completed.
Licensing Terms
At ThoughtWorks, we believe we are revolutionizing IT, and with the release of Proj-o-matic it is
"Mission Accomplished"! Therefore, we
will not be charging for it.
But we do ask for your help in our endeavor to make the world a better place. Our pilot customers have slashed their
development costs by as much as 78% (on average). When you sign the Proj-o-matic license agreement you place yourself
in a binding contract to donate 10% of the resulting savings to a recognized charity.
Testimonials
Jushté Gult, CTO Peter & Wolf Associates:
"We kicked out our high priced consulting company, threw out their code, burned
our J2EE server licenses and brought in Mingle. Two weeks later we had an
initial release with core functionality deployed to production. Every day we
make huge strides toward feature completeness and we have slashed our IT costs
by 83%. Very handy, given the current state of the economy."
Ittsaf Able, CEO Chick & Little International: "I can't tell you how nervous it used to make me when the monthly
report from IT was always 'the sky is falling.' With Proj-o-matic, all that has changed. Ever since I have
deployed it, I sleep easy at night."
Powered by Mechanical Turk™
Mingle uses Amazon's
Mechanical Turk™ web service to break a story down to a micro-story level. Micro stories
are written in a patented Domain Specific Language that compiles down to unit tests and acceptance tests. Once the
story is converted to micro stories these are implemented in the Mechanical Turk™. A micro task done by the Turk is
only considered complete when the given test passes. When the micro tasks are completed
and regression suite past, the Mechanical Turk™
contractor who submitted the code gets paid. When it passes all the tests the
story moves on to Acceptance Testing. At this stage the code is automatically deployed and the business can evaluate
the result. The standard Agile workflow applies, so additional features can be added as new stories at this point.
Screenshots
The Proj-o-matic provides a specialized context sensitive
Integrated Development and Deployment Environment (IDDE) so that anyone can
"write" code that works. Everything is drag-and-drop. No tricky language syntax required. Unit tests are constantly
run so that the Turk knows when the task is complete. On average we have found that our micro tasks are completed
in less than 2 minutes.
An interface to tame software complexity.
Mechanical Turk is a trademark of Amazon, Inc.
