- Card Trees - Mingle now uses the concept of card trees to display relationships between features, cards, defects and any other configurable entities in the system. Also it allows different views of the trees, for example a Planning view or a Developers view.
- Cross-project reporting and one-click visibility at any level of detail - program, project, requirement or even team members can be reported on cross-project, allowing Mingle to be used as a program management tool. Charts & tables from Mingle project wikis can be securely used in the programme roll up view.
- Calculation of key metrics across projects - Mingle 2.0 has the functionality to calcuate metrics from across the project using formulae, some examples of which are weighted estimate averages and average time to fix defects.
- Aggregation of properties - Mingle 2.0 aggregates (or rolls up) key project metrics (including custom ones (see above)). For example task estimetes are rolled up into story estimates, which ultimately end up in release estimates.
- Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and plug-ins to easily integrate Mingle with existing project infrastructure - Mingle now has a full set of Restful API's and a burgeoning community of developers, willing to share their experiences. such as Minglyn (due to be released on CodeHaus on the 15th.).
- Promotion of almost any artefact to a Tab - to enable easy customisation and bookmarking of favourite pages.
- Inclusion of more preconfigured Templates & Metrics - such as burndown/burnup charts and project templates.
Plans on the board for Mingle include promotion of an online Mingle community and greater user personlisation features. Pricing structure is also looking to change, with an Annual and Perpetual license supplementing the pay per seat monthly license.
Mingle 2.0 will be available from 15th April.