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When do the ALM Rangers [not] ship source code–Part 9
We have been asked as to when or why we are releasing the source code for our solutions. To find...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/17/2013
Larry Guger wins the ALM Rangers Product Owner Champion 2013 Award
Larry Guger has been nominated by his peers and has won the Product Owner Champion award for owning...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/17/2013
Joshua Weber wins the ALM Rangers Product Group Champion 2013 Award
Joshua Weber has been nominated by his peers and has won the Product Group Champion award for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/16/2013
Tony Whitter wins the ALM Rangers Project Lead Champion 2013 Award
Tony Whitter has been nominated by his peers and has won the Project Lead Champion award for loving...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/16/2013
Brian Blackman wins the ALM Rangers Ruck Master Champion 2013 Award!
Brian Blackman has been nominated by his peers and has won the Ruck Master Champion award for being...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/15/2013
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Nicholas Hauenstein
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/09/2013
Version Control in the TFS Client Object Model - MSDN Magazine article by Jeff Bramwell
Jeff Bramwell wrote an article as a follow-up to “Using the Team Foundation Server Client Object...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/03/2013
Rangers Flash – December 2012 in pictures
Low bandwidth and reviewer’s month – a vision by the ALM Rangers to scale back on the development...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/31/2012
TFSBranchTool – Two videos by a phenomenal team
The following team … … has released two videos which will help you understand and enjoy the quick...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/31/2012
Weekly flash quiz solutions – 2012/12
To create some distractions in the weekly status emails we have been sharing some snippets from...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/27/2012
Happy holidays ALM Rangers | Community
Dear Rangers and everyone who worked with us this year! 2012 has been a very busy and exciting year...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/20/2012
FAQ: Branching is easy, but can I merge without branching?
Baseless merging is well documented in the TFS Branching and Merging Guide and MSDN, as are the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/13/2012
Calling all ALM Rangers and ALM Community to capture your ideas!
We are fast approaching our third triage of ALM ideas for the next ALM Ranger project adventures and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/08/2012
Calling all ALM Rangers to nominate their Champions!
We are calling on all ALM Rangers to cast their votes for the ALM Ranger champions as outlined in...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/07/2012
Rangers Flash – November 2012
PROJECT NEWS The teams pushed hard to complete most of the development tasks by the end of sprint 5...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/06/2012
ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding … dealing with bugs on tfs.visualstudio.com – Part 8
Bugs? We are not talking about these interesting colleagues … … but about the Work...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/05/2012
Weekly flash quiz solutions – 2012/11
To create some distractions in the weekly status emails we have been sharing some snippets from...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/04/2012
Micheal Learned talks about the Branching guide on Channel9
Brian Keller and Micheal Learned have an interesting discussion about TFS branching, the Branching...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/03/2012
ALM Rangers ship update #1 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in
We are pleased to announce that we have released the first update to version (1.0.12.0622) of the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/30/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Edgar Vega Calderon
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/26/2012
ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding … proving the new process and lifting the last confusions (we hope) – Part 7
Backed by a successful dog fooding story! The vsarGuidance – TfsBranchTool team was the first team...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/26/2012
Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #10 – Managed Extensions Framework (MEF) … simplicity rules!
The Quick Response Sample – TFS Branch Scenarios sample solution is based on the Managed Extensions...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/23/2012
FAQ - Where is the Branch Plans folder for TfsBranchTool Extension?
In Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers Branching and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/22/2012
ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding … pondering over documentation – Part 6
Continuing from ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding, Ruck and the new TLAs – Part 5 I decided to share some...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/18/2012
New book: Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
Richard completes his latest project! After seeing it evolve from an idea to a complete work of art,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/14/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Suliman AlBattat
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/12/2012
ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding, Ruck and the new TLAs – Part 5
Continuing from ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding and the age of the visual board – Part 4 we will focus on...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/11/2012
FAQ: Remote Teams and Managers … a feasible scenario?
We had an interesting brownbag discussion at the Vancouver Development Centre yesterday. Here are...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/09/2012
Rangers Flash – October 2012
PROJECT NEWS Updates Test Release Management Guide - The service pack has been delayed to latter...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/08/2012
Pictures from beautiful Vancouver … eerie Halloween and autumn (fall) on the advance
In Pictures from beautiful Vancouver … an IT-less blog for a change I shared some images...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/02/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Dan Marzolini
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/29/2012
FAQ - TfsBranchTool: How do I customi[s|z]e a TFS Branching scenario plan?
In Quick Response Sample – Command line utility to create TFS Branch Scenarios we introduced the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/26/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Stephan Dekker
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/18/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Bandar Alsharfi
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/18/2012
ALM Rangers – Raising the Quality Bar for Documentation (Part 2)
Continuing from ALM Rangers – Raising the Quality Bar for Tooling (Part 1) we introduce the new...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/17/2012
ALM Rangers – Raising the Quality Bar for Tooling (Part 1)
When you ask the most pedantic and quality driven ALM Ranger to help you raise the quality bars, you...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/17/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Casey O'Mara
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/16/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Pitcher
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/16/2012
ALM Rangers Triage #2 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
October 1st we started the second triage of ideas, whereby the rest of this post is a summary of...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/16/2012
ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding and the age of the visual board – Part 4
This is a continuation of the dog fooding discussions: ALM Rangers switching to single TPC/TP and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/16/2012
ALM Assessments – Community Value-Add Posters “added”
The https://vsaralmassessment.codeplex.com team has changed the downloads and introduced the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/12/2012
Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance team posted an update
The Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance team has published an update to the Coded UI guide, dated...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/05/2012
Rangers Flash – September 2012
PROJECT NEWS Shipped! The first build of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in solution has...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/04/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Tomas Scott
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/01/2012
A few pictures around battle star #41
On my recent trip to Redmond, I made a few pictures … always great to explore and capture some...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/30/2012
Extend the Project Creation Process to promote Ranger branching guidance – Sprint 3 Feedback
This project is part of the Ranger Quick Response Solutions family and the Branching and Merging...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/28/2012