Managing Agile Projects With Mingle

Managing agile projects with Mingle

敏捷中国Beijing, July 14th, 2007

Agenda

• Introduction• Why we are here• The state of agile tools• Introducing Mingle• How you can get involved

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Introduction

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你好

Adam Monago - 孟亚东Mingle Product Manager, ThoughtWorks

amonago@thoughtworks.comAnalyst, Tester, Developer, Project ManagerNew York San Francisco Sydney BeijingGuitars, Computers, Cooking, Wine

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Mingle团队向您问好！

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Why are we here?

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What we have in common

We…love to deliver business value through technology…think that there are better ways of developing

software…are frustrated with the state of tools in the

marketplace

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What we are trying to accomplish

• Faster results : Earlier return on investment• Better usability : Happier customers• Less cost to get things done : time, $, people

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Many different methodologies

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agile

leanlean scrumscrum

iterativecrystal

unified process

cmmicmmi

six sigma

jad

waterfallwaterfall

dsdm

What do we value?

• Collaboration• The expectation that processes will change

regularly• Doing the most important things first• Trust between team members

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How do we work?

• Short cycles• Tackle high-risk/high-value requirements• Integrate early and often• Always test and verify results• Look back and see what we can improve on

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Core Project Management Practices

• Scope management• Progress tracking• Retrospectives and showcases• Empowerment of team• Maintaining the team environment

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The state of “agile” tools

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We like tools!

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Problems with today’s project management tools

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Fall into one of two categories:

1. Top-down project management

2. Information sharing

Too many features

• More than we want

• Things we will never possibly use

• Makes it harder to find what we need

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Bad usability• Someone else’s

language

• Too many clicks to do what we need

• Hard on the eyes – too busy

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Make the user do double-duty• Tools become the place

where people enter data after they do the job

• Only useful for managers

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Too Much Structure• Rigid hierarchies

• Someone else’s definition of ‘project’

• Rules cannot be changed once the project is started

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What do we get as a result?

At best: misunderstood requirements

Worse: total confusion

Introducing…

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What is Mingle?

• A single place to share all project effort

• Developed for all team members

• Feature-lean, with a razor-sharp focus on team collaboration

• Focused on simplicity

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Ruby Technology

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A brief tour

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Create rich requirements documentation

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Flexible Property Editing

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Dynamic Tagging of Cards

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Viewing the story wall

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Creating your own process

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Viewing source and revisions

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Tracking all changes

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Subscribing to project events

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Building powerful status reports

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Creating your own dashboard hacks

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Why Mingle?

• Built with full awareness of gaps in the market• Ground up approach strikes the balance between

management & development• Ruby as the platform choice• ThoughtWorks backing• More than just a tool

How you can get involved.

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Getting Involved

• Visit the website:– http://studios.thoughtworks.com/

• Download your copy• Watch the videos• Share what you create in the forums– http://studios.thoughtworks.com/forums

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谢谢

Adam Monago - 孟亚东Mingle Product Manager, ThoughtWorks

amonago@thoughtworks.com

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