Mingle: for agile, use mingle

I am a developer and occasionally do some management work. Mingle is the most resistant and easy-to-use product in my "management" tools. Compared with ClearQuest, Jira, trac, MS project and so on

I thought about it for the following reasons:

1. Simple

I hate text stacking, dense interfaces, and daunting menus. These interfaces and menus all tell you that your work is boring and tedious, this makes your mood less intense. however, this is not the case with mingle.

Mingle is a piece of white paper, just like a wall

You can customize data items, categories, tags, and so on for your project without any rules, just as if you were graffiti on white paper.

There are not so many self-righteous mandatory items, and there are not so many extra computing tasks that are smart.

Intuitive and minimal input requirements. in mingle, if you want to write more points, you can write less points. You can save them at any time, flip them out, modify them, and tag them at any time, the domain is not automatically calculated because it does not make you depressed.

Mingle won't make you feel useless, won't ask you for input that exceeds your actual needs, and make you feel just right. You always have to find a place to write down the necessary words, you may have used paper or pen before. Now you can use mingle.

Mingle makes you feel that everything is under control/expectation. It won't change one place, And suddenly leads to an error in another place, fully complying with the "minimum accident" rule.

2. Aesthetic

I hate text stacking, dense interfaces, and daunting menus. These interfaces and menus all tell you that your work is boring and tedious, this makes your mood less intense. however, this is not the case with mingle. (Do not think that I copied and pasted error pattern. This interface and menu are never simple and aesthetic)

Mingle is as beautiful as lightning, and like maple leaf Mountain)

The warm and soft orange tone, square input box, eye-catching buttons, drag-and-drop cards fade in and out of the fade-out effect, so that you can freely reveal your inspiration.

Do not think that beauty is useless for functions. Users with physical and mental pleasure are naturally more efficient and creative. value beyond any function is art. (adapted from-"software does not produce any value, it is art" (limo ))

3. Efficiency

Q: How is this different from what I get when I install testlink, Mantis, docuwiki, subversion & scumbug?

A: Good question. what mingle offers is an integrated experience that will give you about the features that those tools combined provide, as well as other benefits you get from having an aggregated view of the entire project.

The above is the Q & A on the mingle blog. Mingle provides Integration Functions in multiple aspects of project management, and you do not need to master multiple unrelated tools, you can complete your work in the same tool

Mingle also provides the project template function, allowing you to quickly set a project. Of course, you don't need to use it.

Yes, mingle is more efficient than the combination of different tools. This can be used to export a very practical function, saving power. mingle takes a shorter time to do the same thing, so even if you forget to bring your laptop power, it doesn't matter. You have more opportunities to finish your work before the laptop power is exhausted.

-- I am only a beginner user of several tools mentioned above. Maybe they have their own advantages --

Appendix: feelings about mingle two weeks ago

Today, I looked at mingle's website and found that it provided unexpected functions for developers, such: The feature/card-to-code Association is provided, so that when a new person enters the project, he only needs to flip the cards completed before and look at the implementation code of the Card Association to quickly familiarize himself with the entire project. this completely changed the way of getting familiar with projects. In the past, we looked at the design documents and program structure to see what functions a class has implemented. We can only look at the leopard, blindly and gradually get familiar with it; but now we can target and directly look at how a function is implemented and what classes are involved .... this is no less than TDD's change in coding methods. I don't know how it is implemented, or it may not be good in English. I have misunderstood its description and confirmed it after the official release. I looked at other functions and found it interesting: One-stop solution: Version Control System, wiki, Bug Tracking System, demand change management system, and various progress/workload reports, you don't need to setup SVN + confluence + Jira + Excel one by one... or clearcase + ClearQuest +... you don't need to be familiar with so many tools one by one. You just need to be familiar with mingle so that you can focus on projects rather than tools. (I heard that cruisecontrol will be integrated in the future ?) I may be wrong, but even if I didn't integrate such a function, it was at least the beginning of a one-stop solution. FBI Workspace: like the office of the FBI team, any information you need can be obtained from your colleagues within a few seconds. Mingle wants to create an FBI workspace for you, all the information is organically associated, such as the Association between cards and codes, the association with test code, and the association with risks, you can quickly get any relevant information Visualization: In mingle, you can play an empty solitaire, that is, drag the card away like a poker card (it seems that there is a mistake, but my Ziguang input method does produce such a word ). of course, mingle is designed not to replace paper cards and walls. It provides digital cards and walls to facilitate statistics and tracking, and automatically generate report services urgently needed by various managers.

Appendix: How mingle feels a month ago

There has been no motivation to touch pens, paper, cards, whiteboards, or other tools outside the wall recently. To be exact, tired of computers .... ") It may also be because I am not good at fingering, not blindly playing, and not good at English. I can't hold a fluent sentence for a long time and feel frustrated with the computer. Therefore, I like to write beautiful user stories on cards between square inch, and force myself to extract the most core user values in the most refined language, so I can summarize my own capabilities, by the way, I secretly appreciate my calligraphy. (even a bug card does not prevent you from making it powerful, or dancing ...) I like the way cards are moved from the wall after the story ends, like a celebration. therefore, there must be a column "Dev done" in the card category to let developers move the card here and feel the satisfaction of the task. This is a best practice, management is nothing more than a psychological game, allowing others to move the card away, but they can only watch and cannot intervene, and their satisfaction will be compromised. Of course, I am only a developer and do not need to manage cards. When a guy like manager or BA has to input cards into tools such as TRAC, he secretly prefers not to use developer to do these jobs; especially after the card status changes, it is even more cumbersome to update the card status in TRAC. Fortunately, I only need to care about the wall. Maybe it's not enough for me to do this (I have too many bad habits/I haven't changed my mind). Maybe I 've been too lazy recently. In short, when I heard about mingle, I didn't respond at all, I am too lazy to use it. I am even a little worried. Will developers be asked to log on to mingle to do some complicated bookkeeping in the future? Like scrumworks? Later I heard that mingle was used for management personnel and BA, and I was gradually relieved. Is it true that cards, walls, and plasticine are enough to keep you up for regular activities?

---------------------------
She is still like a lightning, a ray.
So beautiful, beautiful instructors can endure, can wait, beautiful with a little childish, pure as if even this beautiful itself is cruel.

She is so beautiful, the voice is very touching, and people are very simple, but what she says is like lightning and lightning.
"Where are you? I want to take you to see someone. He must be surprised. Maybe it will be a great surprise ." She said, smiling eyes are like a dream, And the ripple is like a dream.