Mingle is a proprietary

Proprietary software

Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

 project management

Project management

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...

 and collaboration platform that is built by ThoughtWorks Studios

ThoughtWorks Studios

ThoughtWorks Studios is the software division of ThoughtWorks, an IT consultancy. It creates software development tools for project teams. ThoughtWorks Studios' products include Mingle for Agile project management, Go for Agile release management and Twist for Agile testing.-History:ThoughtWorks...

, the software division of ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks is a privately owned global IT consultancy that delivers custom software, software tools, consulting, and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. It has a products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, which creates and markets software development and project management applications...

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Mingle was introduced at JavaOne

JavaOne

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 in 2007 as the first commercial application that runs on JRuby

JRuby

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. It is a part of the Adaptive ALM solution consisting of Mingle for Agile project management, Go for Agile release management

Go (software)

Go is a proprietary continuous integration and release management product by ThoughtWorks Studios. It is a part of the Adaptive ALM solution by ThoughtWorks Studios- History:...

 and Twist for Agile testing

Twist

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 by ThoughtWorks Studios

ThoughtWorks Studios

ThoughtWorks Studios is the software division of ThoughtWorks, an IT consultancy. It creates software development tools for project teams. ThoughtWorks Studios' products include Mingle for Agile project management, Go for Agile release management and Twist for Agile testing.-History:ThoughtWorks...

Features

Mingle provides ways for a team to share information about a project and as a system of record and management for the project itself. Mingle shows the status and progress of project tasks on drag and drop Card Walls that are meant to simulate an Agile Story Wall, has wikis for project collaboration, and can associate instant messages with project tasks through a feature Mingle calls Murmurs. Mingle can generate burn-down charts showing work remaining, velocity charts showing actual versus expected progress, and pivot tables for grouping data by one or more attributes.

Mingle is intended to support various flavors of Agile like XP, Scrum, Agile Hybrid. Though primarily a project management

Project management

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...

 tool, it also provides bug tracking, project reporting and program management

Program management

Program management or programme management is the process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance...

capabilities.