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ThoughtWorks is a privately owned, global technology company. It provides software design and delivery, and pioneering tools and consulting services.The company is closely associated with the movement for agile software development, and has contributed to a range of open source products. == History == In the late 1980s Roy Singham founded Singham Business Services as a management consulting company servicing the equipment leasing industry in a Chicago basement. According to Singham, after two-to-three years, Singham started recruiting additional staff and came up with the name ThoughtWorks in 1990.〔Lundy, Dave. 2003. Ex-activist backs revolution in software. Chicago Sun-Times, October 23. "At the time, I was an independent consultant working in the leasing business, but I realized I didn't want to work on my own. So I recruited a few people, and we built a company called Singham Business Services for two or three years doing consulting and leasing. ''Then in 1990,'' I came up with the name ThoughtWorks."〕〔(), About Us, accessed 2011-07-20.〕 The company was incorporated under the new name in 1993 and focused on building software applications.〔(Gale Directory of Company Histories ) accessed 2011-7-20 "The fledgling enterprise recruited some of its first technical staff by posting bulletin board notices at the University of Chicago. ThoughtWorks soon grew from an initial staff of 8 people to 30 consultants at the time of its ''official incorporation in 1993.''〕 Over time, ThoughtWorks' technology shifted from C++ and Forte 4GL in the mid-1990s to include Java in the late 1990s.〔(ThoughtWorks-How We Work ), “The Beginning” accessed 2007-7-20.〕 The company began using agile techniques while working on a leasing project.〔Lundy, Dave. 2003. Ex-activist backs revolution in software. Chicago Sun-Times, October 23.〕 ThoughtWorks’ technical expertise expanded with the .NET Framework in 2002,〔(Martin Fowler books ), section: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, accessed 7-20-2011〕 C# in 2004, Ruby and the Rails platform in 2006.〔(Ruby at ThoughtWorks ) accessed 2007-7-20.〕 ThoughtWorks Studios was launched as its product division in 2006. The division creates, supports and sells agile project management and software development and deployment tools including Mingle, Twist and Go. On 2 March 2007, ThoughtWorks announced Trevor Mather as the new CEO.〔(), ''Business Wire'', March 2, 2007.〕 In April 2013, ThoughtWorks announced a new collective leadership structure and appointed four co-Presidents of the global organization. The appointments followed the announcement that the then current CEO, Trevor Mather, was leaving ThoughtWorks in June to take up the role of CEO for the Trader Media Group.〔(), 'Bloomberg Businessweek'', ThoughtWorks, Inc. Key Developments, April 10, 2013.〕 In 2015, (Guo Xiao, ) who started as a developer in ThoughtWorks China in 1999, became the Chief Executive Officer and President. ThoughtWorks has more than 3500 employees, working from 36 offices in 14 countries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ThoughtWorks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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