ThoughtWorks Studios Newsletter: March 2008 edition

Card Trees in Mingle 2.0, Webinar on Distributed Software Development, The ThoughtWorks Anthology


Greetings!

Another month has gone by, with a lot happening at ThoughtWorks Studios. Our March newsletter brings you news about a webinar on Making Distributed Development Work, the upcoming Mingle 2.0 and tips on tracking the lifecycle of a story card in Mingle.


Webinar: Making Distributed Software Development Work

Join ThoughtWorks' Matthew Simons and Forrester's Carey Schwaber, as they discuss how to ensure successful software delivery when working with distributed teams.

Date: Tue, April 8 2008
Time: 10:00 A.M. PDT - 1:00 P.M. EST - 6:00 P.M. GMT

Register at the Agile Journal website.


Card Trees in Mingle 2.0: Handling project complexity
 
Mingle 2.0 With Mingle's new feature, Card Trees, we are breaking new ground in how a team can visualize project complexity. We have built into Mingle the power to visually define parent-child relationships between cards on your project and tools to capture metrics at any level and aggregate them according to the hierarchies you design.

Read Forest for the Trees, in which Mingle Product Manager Adam Monago discusses how Card Trees can be used as a powerful visualization tool. Mingle 2.0 will be available in April, so stay tuned!

Released: The ThoughtWorks Anthology - A guide to software innovation
 
The ThoughtWorks Anthology The ThoughtWorks Anthology, a compilation of essays by industry experts Roy Singham, Neal Ford et al, addresses many of today's hot development issues - refactoring, domain specific languages and more.

Read Martin Fowler's One Lair and Twenty Ruby DSLs (PDF).

Archived: Webinar on Testing (with Ward Cunningham)

The legendary Ward Cunningham and Testing expert Jennitta Andrea headlined our recent webinar, "Envisioning the next generation of functional testing tools". It also featured the first-ever public demo of Twist, our soon-to-be-released functional testing tool.

Watch the webinar on demand.

Buzz of the Month

Mingle user Dan Pickett of Enlight Solutions shares some nifty ideas on tracking the lifecycle of a story card in Mingle.

Read Dan Pickett's Mingle for Agile software development.

See you next month!

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ThoughtWorks Studios
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