ALM Rangers Triage #4 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?

If you have submitted an ALM Rangers solution idea, please locate it below and determine if you are happy with the status and comment.  We need your candid feedback to ensure we prepare for the next triage and action your idea appropriately!

This post is reflects the status as at 2013/04/03.

Where are we?

In terms of the FY13 timeline we are in the fourth quarter, fourth idea triage, and have just started sprint 10 as shown below.  The diagram also shows the second main wave of projects that started during March, with an expected spike on the backlog.

Reference posts:

• ALM Rangers Triage #3 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
• ALM Rangers Triage #2 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
• ALM Rangers Triage #1 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
• Have you got an idea for a new or an existing ALM Rangers solution?
• FAQ – How many ALM Ranger initiatives can/should I commit to?
• Visual Studio ALM Rangers Transparency – Clarifying the processes: Projects (Part 1)

Overview

We have transferred one idea and are inflight with 8 projects and in the process of possibly starting up another 2-3. While this presents a huge wave in terms of number of concurrent projects, we are dog-fooding the shorter cadence and smaller (more focused) teams.

We are reducing the features / scope of each project deliverable and releasing quicker to the community. This allows us to react to feedback sooner and iteratively work ourselves to a solution that meets the community requirements in a world where change is inevitable and continuous.

In terms of votes we have the following picture:

Ideas

Ideas that have been completed since Triage #3.

• Provide full ALM end to end labs and guidance that include bug resolution using IntelliTrace

 

Ideas that have been approved and have an ALM Rangers team working on a solution.

• Better Unit Testing with Test Code Generation which includes Add "Create Unit Tests" menu option back!
• DevOps, which includes Better support to Continuous Deployment Practices, Even more build guidance and Installer, deployment, end-to-end monitoring guidance.
• Practical Team Foundation Service Reporting Guide, which includes ideas Custom TFS Data Warehouse samples & guidance and Create a PowerPivot/Tabular Model store that can be populated from the TFS Service
• Continuous Delivery for the ALM Pipeline a collaboration series brought to you by ALM Rangers & p&p , which replaces Refresh the Team Development with Microsoft Visual Studio TFS book

 

Ideas that are still under review and may be considered in future, transferred to another category or declined.

• Practical guidance for customers around ALM for SharePoint application development
• Add a uservoice.com integration services
• Update the mappings in the integration platform to use the 6.1 process templates
• As a trainer, administrator and ALM professional it would be great to have one integrated utility to setup a TFS instance quickly

    

Ideas that have been declined or transferred and will not be reviewed further by the AL Rangers.

  

• Declined
  • None
• Transferred
  • New WIT for Build Management

That’s it!

Have we missed anything? Thoughts?

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 06, 2013
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• Anonymous
  April 06, 2013
  @Ted, the diagram is a PowerPoint slide with a snapshot of our burn-down graph in the background. As mentioned in our dogfooding posts we have adopted a single Team Project model, one backlog to rule them all and are using teams to segregate the projects and teams. On a team level we have the project specific burn-down and when we zoom out to the root of the Team Project and the parent iteration FY13, we get the aggregated view. I am thinking of consolidating the dogfooding blog posts into one "this is what we recommend" post to highlight these gems. Would that be valuable?

• Anonymous
  April 08, 2013
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• Anonymous
  April 08, 2013
  Ok, I will start the write up and publish it here or a reference to it once reviewed by my dog fooding peers.

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2013
  @Ted, the article is done and in final review. I am expecting to release it by Friday ... watch the space :)

• Anonymous
  April 18, 2013
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