ThoughtWorks Announces Availability of Training Programs for Mingle, its Agile Project Management Platform

2008-11-12 13:02:50 - Partnering with Relevance to tutor teams on fundamentals and best practices, ThoughtWorks, the pioneers of Agile software development, today announced the availability of training programs for Mingle, its Agile Project Management Platform

San Francisco, London - 12th November 2008 - ThoughtWorks, the pioneers of Agile software development, today announced the availability of training programs for Mingle, its Agile Project Management Platform. In partnership with Relevance, the well-known Agile coaching organization, ThoughtWorks will deliver an on-site training offering for companies looking to immerse their teams in the use of Mingle for running their entire program of IT work. The experience is geared towards learning not only the fundamentals of the platform, but also the best practices for developing templates that suit the needs of their organization's teams and projects, customized for their own systems development life-cycle.
This 2.5 day course starts by providing participants with a primer on the basic Mingle vocabulary and tools. This is followed by a series of hands-on sessions in which ‘students' are coached through various stages of tracking projects from ideation through delivery and support, and are provided with examples that are based on best practices of modern project delivery techniques, including Agile and Lean methods.
Adam Monago, Mingle Product Manager at ThoughtWorks, said, 'With many organizations leaning towards the Agile methodology for software development, there is an increase in the demand for understanding Agile tools and their functioning. This training program with Relevance, helps organizations in various stages of agility to utilize the powerful features of Mingle and better manage their Agile projects. Mingle leverages ThoughtWorks' 7+ years of experience in Agile, thus helping teams drive agility in their projects.'
Mingle, the simple and flexible Agile Project Management tool that was launched in 2007 by ThoughtWorks, helps teams deliver software, quickly. With the industry's best UI, it provides a shared workspace and project visibility for the entire team, making it easier to plan, track and report project status. Mingle is part of a rich suite of software development tools along with Cruise (Continuous Integration and Release Management) and Twist (Collaborative Test Automation).
For more information on the training program and Mingle visit: www.thoughtworks.com/mingle-training-services

About ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks kick-started the Agile business era with pioneering software delivery practices and world-leading open source software. Today, many world-class companies approach us to solve their toughest business problems, and we deliver some of the world's most sophisticated custom applications. Our products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, was established in 2006 to make cutting-edge software development tools, currently including Mingle (project collaboration), Cruise (continuous integration) and Twist (functional testing).

Founded in 1993, ThoughtWorks is headquartered in Chicago, and has offices in Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States.

More at www.thoughtworks.com and www.thoughtworks.com/studios.

About Relevance:
Relevance, Inc. (thinkrelevance.com) is a leading Ruby on Rails enterprise application development practice, specializing in software development, consulting and training. Relevance's staff of veteran application developers, who on average possess 13 years industry experience, ensures enterprise customers receive the highest quality standards for predictable, rapid application development. Relevance professionals have trained internal IT staffs at SAS, BBC, ThoughtWorks, AOL, IBM, Sun Microsystems and many other companies. The company has followed a proven agile methodology since its inception and actively contributes to the open source community via a wide range of projects and developer tools (opensource.thinkrelevance.com/). Relevance was founded by veteran software developers Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland in 2003.