Project management tools

Mingle is a proprietary project management tool.

Why is the Wikimedia Foundation using Mingle?
The purpose of Mingle is to plan your work and keep track of who did what along the way. The Foundation is using Mingle as part of a push toward adoption of an Agile approach to software development, a tool which Mingle was specifically built for. Mingle is made by ThoughtWorks, and ThoughtWorks has done a few training sessions at the Foundation about adopting Agile processes in general. Mingle somewhat duplicates functionality present in Bugzilla, but can be integrated with both that and some version control systems.

Who within Wikimedia is using Mingle?

 * Editor Engagement
 * i18n
 * Wikidata (Wikimedia Deutschland)
 * Fundraising

How much does Mingle cost per year?
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What are the alternatives to Mingle?
The following are very popular alternatives in the context of Mingle's approach, which is roughly similar to other scrum task boards or Kanban boards. They may not necessarily be viable alternatives, but since we're already using a closed source tool, this list should probably include them. MediaWiki is a candidate for this list if you want include instances where people use non-specialized tools.

In somewhat hazy order of popularity and suitability for this use case:


 * Pivotal Tracker. Closed source, but wildly popular in the Agile crowd.
 * 1) Fulcrum, an open source Pivotal Tracker clone
 * Trello. A few projects, such as Echo and Editor engagement experiments, are currently using public Trello boards as a free-as-in-beer Mingle alternative. Though it is closed source, non-members of Trello boards can view and comment on cards, and all data is exportable in open formats if we decide Trello is not for us.
 * GreenHopper + JIRA. Popular but closed source and often a bear. Not particularly attractive for our needs.
 * Trac. More project management than Agile development
 * Redmine. More project management than Agile development

Where is the Wikimedia Foundation's installation of Mingle?

 * URL: https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/

Previously, Mingle required a username and password (guest, guest) to view its content. This username and password should no longer be necessary.

The server hosting the installation is, as of September 2012, managed by WMF Office IT technical team.