Press Release

ThoughtWorks Announces Upgrade of its Agile Project Collaboration Software Mingle

New Mingle Release Demonstrates Company's Commitment to Agile Software Development

CHICAGO—October 30, 2007— ThoughtWorks, a leading global IT consultancy, today announced the immediate availability of Mingle 1.1, a significant upgrade to its ground-breaking project collaboration tool for Agile software development teams. The initial launch of Mingle in August 2007 met with enthusiastic reception from over 4,000 software project teams worldwide. Incorporating feedback from users of this first release, Mingle 1.1 arrives within just three months, and enables project teams to more effectively schedule, track, prioritize and collaborate on the thousands of tasks they need to accomplish.

Developed by the company's new product division, ThoughtWorks Studios, Mingle 1.1 features important new functionality including extensive filtering, burn-down charts, date properties and support for printing story cards, built into Mingle's much-acclaimed, browser-based, AJAX-powered interface. Now, Mingle 1.1 can be used by all project team members, not just the project managers.

"Mingle 1.1 further demonstrates our fundamentally different approach to delivering software," said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director of ThoughtWorks Studios. "ThoughtWorks Studios" products are easy, even fun to use and we are releasing significant upgrades in short cycles so that our customers benefit early and often from new features. Project software is notorious for being hard-to-use and management-centric, but Mingle has an elegantly simple and engaging user interface and offers all the flexibility needed by developers, QAs, business analysts and project managers to deliver high-quality software rapidly."

In August, ThoughtWorks launched RubyWorks, designed to accelerate the adoption of Ruby in the Enterprise. RubyWorks is ThoughtWorks' third product release for 2007, along with Mingle and CruiseControl Enterprise, a continuous integration tool. To experience the new features of Mingle 1.1 for yourself, please visit http://studios.thoughtworks.com for a free 30-day trial.

About ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks, Inc. ([www.thoughtworks.com]) is a global IT consultancy providing systems development, consulting, and transformation services to Global 1000 companies. The company's pioneering approach, which includes industry-acclaimed Agile and Lean best practices, helps CIOs maximise investment performance across a portfolio of complex, business critical applications, while reducing time and risk. ThoughtWorks' 800 professionals serve clients from offices in Australia, Canada, China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. ThoughtWorks Studios is the company's specialist product division, which develops the next generation of tools for custom software development.

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For ThoughtWorks:
Josh Sternberg
Stanton Crenshaw Communications
646-502-3570
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