ThoughtWorks
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| ThoughtWorks Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Chicago, USA |
| Key people | Neville Roy Singham, Chairman Trevor Mather, CEO Graham Webster, CFO Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist |
| Industry | IT Consulting Management Consulting |
| Products | studios.thoughtworks.com |
| Employees | 750 (2006) |
| Website | www.thoughtworks.com |
ThoughtWorks is a global IT consultancy which focuses on Agile software development. The company has contributed a range of open source products including CruiseControl, NUnit 2.0, Selenium and Sahi.
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[edit] History
Neville Roy Singham founded Singham Business Services in 1992 as a management consulting company servicing the equipment leasing industry. After three years of helping businesses use software, he changed the company's name to ThoughtWorks and the focus became building software. ThoughtWorks's technology capabilities have evolved from its use of Forte 4GL in the mid-nineties to include Java in the late nineties, the .Net Framework in 2001, and Ruby in 2004. The services have expanded beyond software development and into areas such as the organizational transformation of business. The company prefers to use agile methodologies, and the languages Ruby, C#, and Java.
In early 2007, ThoughtWorks announced the launch of ThoughtWorks Studios, its software development division. The first product to be released by ThoughtWorks Studios is Mingle, an Agile project management application.
[edit] News
- January 10th 2007: At a press conference at Pune, India, the Chairman of ThoughtWorks stated his intent to "make ThoughtWorks an employee-owned global firm"[1]
- March 2nd 2007 : ThoughtWorks announces Trevor Mather as the new CEO.[2]
- March 15th 2007 : ThoughtWorks announces software development division, ThoughtWorks Studios.
[edit] Open Source Contributions
- CruiseControl [7] - Java-based framework for a continuous build process. Now superseded by many newer and more functional projects.[3]
- CruiseControl.Net [8] - a Continuous Integration server for the Microsoft .NET platform.
- DamageControl [9] - a Continuous Integration server for Ruby. Not actively used, more of a testing ground for technologies than a product.
- Frankenstein [10] - Java SWING testing framework
- NUnit - unit testing framework for all .NET languages
- QuickFix
- Selenium - testing tool for web applications
- Sahi [11] - testing tool for web applications
- JBehave - Behaviour Driven Development testing framework
- Buildix - bootable CD with Subversion, Trac and CruiseControl
- SharpRobo - testing tool for .NET applications
- CruiseControl.rb [12] - CruiceControl for Ruby
[edit] ThoughtWorks Locations
ThoughtWorks has offices in Bangalore, Beijing, Brisbane, Calgary, Chicago, London, Melbourne, New York City, Pune, San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, and Xi'an.
[edit] Timeline
- 1992: Singham Business Services founded
- 1995: ThoughtWorks comes into existence in Chicago, after Singham Business Services changed its business model, goals and name.
- 1998: ThoughtWorks begins opening international offices (starting with Brisbane, Australia)
- 1999: Extreme Programming becomes the preferred methodology.
- 2001: ThoughtWorks opens an office in Calgary, Canada resulting from the acquisition of Servidium Inc.[4][5][6]
- 2002: ThoughtWorks opens an office in Bangalore, India and London, UK
- 2005: ThoughtWorks University comes into existence
- 2005: ThoughtWorks opens an office in Xi'an, China
- 2005: ThoughtWorks opens an office in Toronto, Canada
- 2006: ThoughtWorks opens an office in Beijing, China
- 2006: ThoughtWorks opens an office in Pune, India
- 2007: ThoughtWorks starts the product division ThoughtWorks Studios.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- ThoughtWorks OpenSource Projects
- Blogs by ThoughtWorkers
- ThoughtWorks Studios
- Open Source Projects
[edit] References
- ^ [1], Business Standard (Bangalore), January 15, 2007.
- ^ [2], Business Wire, March 2, 2007.
- ^ [3], Continuous Integration Server Feature Comparison Matrix
- ^ [4], CanadaIT.com Company Profiles
- ^ [5], Vencom.ca General Consulting Activities
- ^ [6], CanadaIT.com, "ThoughtWorks(R), Inc. To Acquire Calgary Firm Servidium(TM) Inc." September 20, 2001.
