Mingle - Release and Iteration Planning - Relevant Planning for Iterative Software Development

Release & Iteration Planning: Adapt to Changing Requirements

Today's Agile business environment demands that software teams adapt quickly to rapidly changing requirements, and yet produce high-quality software with each iteration and release. With the industry's best user interface, Mingle makes it easy to manage product backlogs, decompose and schedule requirements, trace dependencies and track feature completeness.

Keeping Pace with Business Requirements

Software teams constantly struggle to find a way to include changing business requirements just in time throughout the project lifecycle. Use Mingle's customizable card wall views to efficiently plan and manage software releases, keeping the whole team on the same page. Balance resources against the highest value features and build plans that are relevant to changing requirements.

Iteration planning: Get the entire team involved

Complex Requirements, Visually Simplified

Ever felt the need to see the "forest " of a project, and then drill down to the details of the tasks involved? Visualize and break-down complex requirements into smaller stories with Card Trees^TM, a ground-breaking new feature in Mingle 2.0. Demonstrate to the team how requirements are structured, and what dependencies are involved.

Card Trees: Task relationships at a glance. (Video: Mingle 2.0 Card Trees)

Prioritizing Requirements

Manage product and release backlogs that reflect the priorities of the business with the help of the real-time information Mingle always holds. Compare estimates to actuals for continuous improvement. Quickly adjust scope to respond to change in priorities.

Leverage real-time automatic release metrics and burn-downs. Focus on the issues of interest with Dashboards that automatically group test results and defects by requirement.

Real-time reports: Track the progress of a release or iteration

Use Mingle For
Project Collaboration	One shared workspace for the entire team with Card Walls and Wiki
Project Management	Software delivery simplified with Burn-down charts, Velocity and Pivot tables
Tracking & Reporting Progress	Real-time data for real-time decisions. Mingle holds updated and accurate project visible to the entire team.
Program Management	One-click Visibility across Projects with accurate reports and Cross Project Reporting.
Test Management and Issue Tracking	Stay on top of software quality. Mingle provides you with a powerful bug tracking and testing platform, that ensures more consistent testing.