Mingle with the agile crowd
Uwe Schaefer 
Sunday, 16th of November 2008 at 12:00:00 AM
I am a JIRA fan and i hate TRAC. Tracs interface seems to be utterly useless and it is not easy to customize it without spending a significant amount of time for that.
JIRA is very different. Its interface is clean, flexible and you can easily create groups that have nothing more than a Type/Title/Text-Form to create an issue. I found that a very imporrtant feature as my old company used it in order to communicate within and beetween departments as well as with clients.
So how does all that relate to
Thoughtworks’ Mingle
?
- Well, a coworker of mine – fighting with Trac again – asked, if JIRA had something like a TODO List;
- I asked myself, if the ‘Issues’ can be planned easily, or if i have to take an ms-project alike for that;
- and my Boss asks for Transparency with the department.
Well, a little too much for Jira, right? All of that
can
be done, i’m sure – but it will not be hassle-free. Admittedly, JIRA is much more, than a bugzilla like Defect Tracking Software, but i just did not feel like this was all i needed. Luckily, i stumbled upon Mingle. I just had a few moments yet to use it, but from what i’ve seen, it is incredible:
Clean interface, total customizability, easy data-im/export, release planning, Scrum’s Sprint Backlogs, SOtry-Cards as well as classic Defect Tracking and a WIKI with great reporting options !
Not, that any of this is absolutely unique, but i’ve never seen a Software that complete, yet flexible to do what i need it to.
If your looking for more than a issuetracker, you should consider it.
Note: Mingle is not free, as soon as your team get >5.
