Following the first release nine months ago, thoughtworks released mingle 2.0 in the middle of this month. Among the many modifications and new features in this version, the most striking is:
- Card tree-mingle now uses the card tree concept to present features, stories, defects, and any entity you define in the system. It can also display trees in different ways, such as planning view or developer view ).
- Comprehensive reports (cross-project reporting) and one-click Visualization at any level (such as program, project, and requirement ). If mingle is used as a programming management tool, team members can obtain comprehensive reports. In mingle, the diagrams and tables on the project wiki can also be used for the summative view (roll up view) in programming mode ).
- Calculation of key metric data-mingle 2.0 can use formulas to calculate some metric data, such as weighted average estimation and average modification time of defects.
- Aggregate attributes-mingle 2.0 aggregation (or total rolls up) Key Project measurements (you can also customize some ). For example, you can obtain the estimated value of the story through the sum of the estimated value of the task, and then obtain the estimation of the release.
- Application programming interfaces (APIS) and plug-ins can easily integrate mingle with the existing project infrastructure-mingle now provides a complete set of restful API's, in addition, a group of developers (with fast growth) are willing to share their mingle experience, such as minglyn (which should be released on codehaus on the 15th ).
- Any product can be used as a tab-it is easier to customize and add favorite pages.
- Preset more templates and metrics, such as burndown/burnup charts and project templates.
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This article is based on the new features of mingle2.0 on infoq Chinese site.
