Delivered at the first Agile China conference in Beijing, July 2007.

1. Managing agile projects with Mingle
敏捷中国
Beijing, July 14th, 2007

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Why we are here
• The state of agile tools
• Introducing Mingle
• How you can get involved
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3. Introduction
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4. 你好
Adam Monago - 孟亚东
Mingle Product Manager, ThoughtWorks
amonago@thoughtworks.com
Analyst, Tester, Developer, Project Manager
New York  San Francisco  Sydney  Beijing
Guitars, Computers, Cooking, Wine
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5. Mingle团队向您问好！
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6. Why are we here?
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7. 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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8. 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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9. Many different methodologies
agile
lleeaann ssccrruumm
dsdm
iterative
six sigma
crystal
ccmmmmii
unified
process
jad
wwaatteerrffaallll
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10. 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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11. 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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12. Core Project Management Practices
• Scope management
• Progress tracking
• Retrospectives and showcases
• Empowerment of team
• Maintaining the team environment
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13. The state of “agile” tools
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14. We like tools!
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15. Problems with today’s project
management tools
Fall into one of two categories:
1. Top-down project
management
2. Information sharing
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16. 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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17. Bad usability
• Someone else’s
language
• Too many clicks to do
what we need
• Hard on the eyes – too
busy
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18. 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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19. Too Much Structure
• Rigid hierarchies
• Someone else’s
definition of ‘project’
• Rules cannot be
changed once the
project is started
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20. What do we get as a result?
At best: misunderstood requirements
Worse: total confusion
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21. Introducing…
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22. 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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23. Ruby Technology
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24. A brief tour
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25. Create rich requirements documentation
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26. Flexible Property Editing
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27. Dynamic Tagging of Cards
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28. Viewing the story wall
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29. Creating your own process
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30. Viewing source and revisions
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31. Tracking all changes
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32. Subscribing to project events
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33. Building powerful status reports
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34. Creating your own dashboard hacks
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35. 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

36. How you can get involved.
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37. 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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38. 谢谢
Adam Monago - 孟亚东
Mingle Product Manager, ThoughtWorks
amonago@thoughtworks.com
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