ThoughtWorks Studios, a software development startup, is launching a new version of its project management tool, Mingle, and is rolling out integration with Google Wave.
Mingle has been upgraded to feature a communications platform within the application, called “Murmurs.” A mix of an IM and Twitter-like microblogging format, Murmurs allows anyone involved in a software project to have online conversations that are associated with a specific Mingle project.
Mingle has also added project management capabilities including, increased scalability, the ability to let managers to write customized reporting macros by pulling data from multiple projects and a feature that lets users create links between content across projects for cross-project traceability.
Mingle is also launching an integration with Google’s new collaboration platform, Wave, to help improve IT collaboration and software development productivity. Users can view and interact with Mingle from within Google Wave. The partnership is an interesting play for the IT-focused enterprise, when its comes to Wave, which has been received with mixed views.
I know it’s a slippery slope one but how can you define ThoughtWorks Studios a “startup”? it’s been going on for years and it’s essentially the product division of ThoughtWorks
You can’t. Their Website says they are a “global leader”, so not a startup any more.
http://studios....oughtworks.com/
ThoughtWorks a “startup”? It’s the product division of ThoughtWorks consulting. The writing and research on TechCrunch is so laughable.
How could a 1000 employ company established since 1992 be called a “startup”?!
So, is google still a start-up?
Google is considered to be in incubation (pre-pre-startup)
Crowd sourced collaboration, it may not always be pretty but it shakes off misconceptions lickedly split!
Looking at the pricing, the product better be excellent.
Annual: $566/user; Perpetual: $995/user; free 1-year trial for 5 users. And Google does the difficult work for free. Sounds like much better money than – say – writing Social Apps and taking a cut from the scamvertizers.
I haven’t used it myself, but that doesn’t seem off par for decent project management software. If it is decent, then adding Wave support is simply that, adding the ability to contribute to the project via Wave. Google aren’t doing diddly in that case besides having written the protocol (since you don’t even need to rely on Google’s servers to use Wave), and it wouldn’t have been easy to implement an entirely new protocol into already pretty complex software.
Agreed.
Mind you, what google did is add EXTENSIONS to an existing protocol. And create a nifty client and server.
We have been using Mingle at JS-Kit for over a year and have been quite happy with the service … This is a great upgrade, looking forward to checking it out
Yawn. Get Pivotal Tracker. Better, faster and it’s free.
We tried mingle and it was ok, but it’s far behind other products such as Version One.
But get Pivotal Tracker. It blows them all away. And it’s free. Did I mention it’s free?
This is a great result for Mingle.
A great piece of software just got even better.