ALM Rangers Triage #5 - 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!

Albeit delayed for a number of reasons, this post is reflects the status as at 2013/08/07, updated on 2013/09/19.

Where are we?

In terms of the FY14 timeline we are in the first quarter, fifth idea triage, and are working on Sprint 15 (September), as shown below:

Overview

We have transferred two ideas and are inflight with 9 projects. With the upcoming Visual Studio and TFS 2013 releases, we had an unusual spike of activity around the update of key guidance and subsequently decided against starting new projects.

We are still fine tuning our new time and feature boxed, shorter cadence and refined Ruck process, but have managed to align ourselves with the product group cadence, be more responsive and most importantly raise our quality bars of tooling projects. It is an ongoing dog-fooding and evolution process, which we started to journal in ALM Rangers dogfooding journal of the Team Foundation Service.

Ideas

Ideas that have been completed since Triage #4.

• ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2 (Windows 8)
• Unit Test Generator v1
• TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide v1.3

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

• Building a Release Pipeline with TFS (p&p / Rangers collaboration)
• Device dev and testing with Perfecto Mobile
• DevOps Tooling & Practical Continuous Deployment Guide
• ALM Readiness Treasure Map (arrrrrr…) Windows Store App v2.1 (Windows 8.1)
• On-Time VM Factory Service
• Practical Team Foundation Service Reporting Guide v1
• Upgrade -> Upgrade Guide for TFS 2013 v3
• Upgrade -> Lab Management Guide v3
• Upgrade -> Version Control (ex-Branching) Guide v3

Ideas that are still under review.

• Create a Framework for driving realistic load against SQL Server
• Practical guidance for customers around ALM for SharePoint application development
• Update the mappings in the TFS Integration Tools to support the 6.1 process templates
• SQL Server Development Tools - Best practice guidance
• Add a uservoice.com integration services
• Detailed TFS Rangers doc on how to migrate a TFS deployment (without upgrading)
• Installer, deployment, end-to-end monitoring guidance
• Provide a way of exporting or converting webtestresult files to text
• 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 ALM Rangers.

• Declined
  • None
• Transferred
  • Make Visual Studio web and load test easier to create and analyse
  • Make WPF XAML designer work with custom Window controls.

That’s it!

Have we missed anything? Thoughts?

Reference posts:

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

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 25, 2013
  It would be super helpful if the integration platform were updated for 6.1 templates +1 on Update the mappings in the TFS Integration Tools to support the 6.1 process templates