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Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesper Fernström
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/26/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Shawn Mclean
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/22/2014
Using Power Map to light up the vast ALM Rangers community
We recently asked our Rangers if anyone is interested in created one visualisation of the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/15/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Barry Paquet
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/15/2014
Ranger Flash – March 2014 … landing lights are on!
A few projects are on final approach and expected to land during April. beta news TFS on...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/03/2014
Dog-fooding Journal #3 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint Journey
This is a continued journal for our dog-fooding, targeting primarily our Ruck masters and anyone who...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/01/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Calvin Clark
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/24/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Soung Bae
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/24/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Paul Laberge
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/24/2014
Visibility and transparency is key to effective teams … taking a closer look at the flight plan status board
When we walk into any bus, train, ship or airport terminal we typically venture to the arrivals or...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/18/2014
Dog-fooding Journal #2 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint … assembling the team
As part of the preparations we have to commit the team, which often creates a dilemma of...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/16/2014
Dog-fooding Journal #1 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint Preparations
We will journal our Ruck innovations dog-fooding (see Proposed innovations … a byte for your...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/14/2014
Day OOF … re-booting in spectacular Vancouver
To support the ALM Rangers family > job > rangers mantra I decided to take today off (OOF),...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/10/2014
Windows Azure – 101 Stuff and a mention of our TFS on Azure IaaS POC
Our TFS on Azure IaaS proof-of-concept (POC), and more recently the merging, editing and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/07/2014
T-496 days for New Horizons … brings back a lot of memories of precious friends, books and a noisy generator during a power failure :)
Funny what your brain pulls from the memory folders when you are waiting for VMs to spin up in Azure...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/05/2014
Ranger Flash – February 2014 … short month, brief flash :)
See Flight Plan Board for details on the exciting ALM Rangers community project delivering...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/04/2014
On a personal note … the Illustrators release another great music video in South-Africa!
We continue to support talent watching the evolution of Dominic Neill. I remember watching him at a...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/26/2014
ALM Rangers Triage #7 - 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...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/24/2014
What’s cooking in the ALM Rangers home?
We are completing the seventh triage and are on the verge of starting the new project wave. We...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/21/2014
ALM Rangers email etiquette … part 1
We deal with email, a LOT of email as eluded to in FAQ – How can I determine which of the 100’s of...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/21/2014
ALM Ranger Solutions – Proposed innovations … a byte for your thoughts?
In ALM Rangers Ruck – Proposed innovations to the v1.2 guidance we discuss proposed innovations in...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/21/2014
Lab Management Guide … v3 update is available!
We are pleased to announce the third revision of Visual Studio Lab Management Guide. This release...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/06/2014
Ranger Flash – January 2014 … welcome to a new year of bit and byte adventures!
Here is a sneak preview of our Rangers portfolio dashboard as generated by the vsarFlightPlan...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/04/2014
Localised video gems for Visual Studio 2013 … get the popcorn!
There is a great collection of Visual Studio 2013, available in several languages, developed by the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/03/2014
ALM Rangers Ruck – Proposed innovations to the v1.2 guidance. Thoughts?
We introduced the concept of “loose Scrum” (also known as a maul or ruck in Rugby) in 2011 to...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/31/2014
What … it has been 5 years already? Time flies when you are having fun :)
When there were unusually many ALM Rangers gathering in one place at the ATE event I should have...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/31/2014
A few more pictures from TechReady 18 … I am out of here and back home for 4 days :)
Today was the last day with ALM Ranger sessions and thanks to Bijan’s great guidance and enforcement...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/30/2014
A few pictures from TechReady 18 … finally!
I have been asked by a few Rangers why we have not published any pictures yet. Apologies, the first...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/29/2014
ALM Rangers Mission Statement … tweaked for the first time in 7 years
Starting from VSTS Rangers and evolving to Visual Studio ALM Rangers, we operated with the same...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/28/2014
Pre-TR Training … and a breakfast you should run away from :)
The ALM Rangers are slowly but surely gathering in Seattle for TechReady, semi-annual internal...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/24/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Baruch Frei
Who you are? Casual Q&A at TechReady 20 I'm a PFE targeting the ALM/TFS platform. Believes...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/22/2014
How do you normalise your velocity estimation?
Working in our interesting, yet challenging (distributed, part-time, non-committed bandwidth)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/21/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Wouter de Kort
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/21/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Wanderson Lima
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/18/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rajesh Podapati
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/18/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alan Morais
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/14/2014
Ruck is not another process, it is simply “loose Scrum” … in the context of the ALM Rangers
We recently ran a “quick poll” with the Rangers asking what they thought of Ruck. The results are...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/10/2014
Two new special t-shirts for four special ALM Rangers!
In 7 years of VSTS –> Visual Studio ALM Rangers history … a ... we introduced our official...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/10/2014
Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 posted
Thanks to Michael Fourie, we have been able to action the backlog of community feedback for recent...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/08/2014
Ranger Flash – December 2013 … family.job.ranger shutdown comes to an end
After a brief “focus on family” Ranger shutdown, we are resuming projects with the usual passion for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/06/2014
ALM Rangers are briefly shutting down for some quality family time!
Please be aware that we are asking all ALM Rangers to honour the family>job>rangers mantra and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/20/2013
A “few” of the pictures taken during 2013 to highlight a few of the many special moments no where near ALM Rangers
Here are my 13 favourite pictures taken during the past twelve months. Unlike A “few” of the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/18/2013
A “few” of the pictures taken during 2013 to highlight a few of the many special moments with the ALM Rangers
Here are a few of my favourite pictures taken at events with fellow ALM Rangers during 2013 … enjoy!...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/13/2013
Testing Mobile Applications using Perfecto Mobile's MobileCloud … v2 is available!
We are pleased to announce the second revision of Device Testing, focused on mobile device testing...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/12/2013
Philly Application Lifecycle Management User Group
If you are in the Philadelphia area and interested in or passionate about Application Lifecycle...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/07/2013
Looking for trend reporting against VS Online and more? Peruse the new TFS Reporting Guide!
We are pleased to announce the release of TFS Reporting Guide v1, which will take you on a...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/05/2013