APLN Dueling Vendors: Mingle vs. Rally

Last night, the New York chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network hosted a "Dueling Vendors" evening where both Rally and ThoughtWorks could show how their agile project management tools would handle user stories suggested by the audience. It provided a really great introduction to the tools and prompted a bunch of good discussion. Rally was clearly a little more polished, but also a little more prescriptive and focused on organizations that use a Scrum style approach. Mingle is a little less comprehensive and requires more configuration, but it's flexible enough to easily support a kanban style lean approach or even just creating an agile project management system for managing a company - not just a programming team. It was great to see both in action and to get to ask questions of the vendors.

Expect to see more from me on Mingle as it was a better fit to my use case, but both tools are definitely worth investigating.