![]() ![]() Also in 2015, Chinese marketing data company AdMaster acquired Chinese online form automation platform JinShuJu from Thoughtworks. In 2015, Guo Xiao, who started as a developer in Thoughtworks China in 1999, became the chief executive officer and President. Walton has done work in Haiti since 1999, including helping establish a 300-room, solar-powered hospital and the establishment of a noncommunicable disease clinic. David Walton was hired as Director of Global Health. The appointments followed the announcement that the then current CEO, Trevor Mather, was leaving Thoughtworks to take up the role of CEO for the used car sales business Trader Media Group. In April 2013, Thoughtworks announced a collective leadership structure and appointed four co-Presidents of the global organization. In 2010, Jim Highsmith joined Thoughtworks. In 2010, Singham opened Thoughtworks’ Fifth Agile Software Development Conference in Beijing. By 2010, its clients included Daimler AG, Siemens and Barclays, and had opened a second headquarters in Bangalore. Singham owned 97% of the common stock of the company. Its clients included Microsoft, Oracle, major banks, and The Guardian newspaper. īy 2008, Thoughtworks employed 1,000 people and was growing at the rate of 20-30% p.a., with bases around the world. Also in March 2007, Rebecca Parsons assumed the role of Chief Technical Officer, having been with the company since 1999. On 2 March 2007, Thoughtworks announced Trevor Mather as the new CEO. The division created, supported and sold agile project management and software development and deployment tools including Mingle, Gauge(formerly Twist), Snap CI and GoCD. Thoughtworks Studios was launched as its product division in 2006 and shut down in 2020. In 2002, Thoughtworks chief scientist Martin Fowler wrote "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" with contributions by ThoughtWorkers David Rice and Matthew Foemmel, as well as outside contributors Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, and Randy Stafford. NET Framework in 2002, C# in 2004, Ruby and the Rails platform in 2006. Thoughtworks' technical expertise expanded with the. The company began using agile techniques while working on a leasing project. Īlso in 2001, Fowler, Jim Highsmith, and other key software figures authored the Agile Manifesto. In 2001, Thoughtworks agreed to settle a lawsuit by Microsoft for $480,000 for deploying unlicensed copies of office productivity software to employees. Martin Fowler joined the company in 1999 and became its chief scientist in 2000. Over time, Thoughtworks' technology shifted from C++ and Forte 4GL in the mid-1990s to include Java in the late 1990s. The company was incorporated under the new name in 1993 and focused on building software applications. According to Singham, after two-to-three years, Singham started recruiting additional staff and came up with the name Thoughtworks in 1990. In the late 1980s, Roy Singham founded Singham Business Services as a management consulting company servicing the equipment leasing industry in a Chicago basement. ![]()
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