Willy's Reflections
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Ranger Flash – August 2014 … Planets are aligned
You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news TFS on Azure IaaS...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/02/2014
Aligning our planets with a common cadence and synchronization
We recently changed our sprint cadence with the rest of the organization, creating turbulence for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/29/2014
Fun of PM.2 … Energi[s|z]ing the team
Continuing with the program management (PM) persona from Fun of PM.1 … Persona within the ALM...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/27/2014
Fun of PM.1 … Persona within the ALM Rangers
We are transitioning and evolving our ecosystem, infrastructure, process, and leadership of the ALM...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/22/2014
Pirates ship ALM Readiness Treasure Map v3 release for Windows 8.1
We are pleased to announce the third major release of ALM Readiness Treasure Map v3 to the Windows...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/18/2014
Ben Roscorla joins the ALM Rangers Ruck Masters … Ruck?
Congratulations to Ben Roscorla who joined the list of Scrum/Ruck Masters on Index of ALM Rangers....
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/12/2014
ALM Rangers Triage #8 - What happened to your idea on UserVoice?
If you have recently submitted an ALM Rangers solution idea on Visual Studio UserVoice, please...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/11/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Steve St Jean
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/11/2014
Ranger Flash – July 2014 … Turbulent weather, events and lots of pizza
You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news ¿Habla Español? …...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/06/2014
What happens when 13 Rangers meet on a weekend to discuss a framework?
Using the weekend after TR19, we had a unique opportunity to get 13 ALM Rangers into a room to work...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alex Belotserkovskiy
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – José Freire Neto
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Daniel Mann
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sergio A Romero
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014
Getting ready for a weekend of candid discussions around scaling agile
More pictures emerged from TR, taken by João Paulo Rodrigues. Pirates … arrrrrrrr! … Robert...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/01/2014
¿Habla Español? … Version Control Guides v3
Juan Maria Lao took it upon himself to translate the three available version control guides to...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/01/2014
ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 4 impressions … what about day 3?
Sorry, day three my laptop imploded an hour before our session, leaving me wondering what I have...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/01/2014
Triage of ideas … ∆ process changes
We are about to post the triage #8 results. Before we delve into the results, let us review how we...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/29/2014
ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 2 impressions
To allow us to match ALM Ranger faces and names from the aka.ms/vsarindex, and share some of the fun...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/29/2014
Building a Release Pipeline with TFS 2012 now includes HOLs for TFS 2013
We are pleased to announce that the Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/29/2014
ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 1 impressions
A few of the ALM Rangers have three precious opportunities every year to meet face:face at the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/28/2014
Integrating “News” in the VS IDE … a cool extension update!
Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora released v1.2 of the News extension, which allows you to get...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/28/2014
¿Habla Español? … Testing Unitario con Microsoft® Fakes v1.2
Juan Maria does it again by updating the localised Testing Unitario con Microsoft® Fakes v1.1 guide...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/15/2014
Let us re-iterate the family>job>rangers mantra and point to our dash / flight board for the ALM Rangers and community
We often get asked what we mean with “family>job>rangers”, what projects we working on, what...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/14/2014
Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 5 … Which visuali[s|z]ation catches your eye?
We continue from Objectives and repetition, Prioritization, Normali[s|z]ed estimations, Portfolio,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/10/2014
Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 4 … Sprint objectives and repetition rule!
We continue from Prioritization, Normali[s|z]ed estimations, Portfolio, flights, teams, epics and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/07/2014
Have you ever pondered whether you would be interested in the Program Manager (PM) role?
Have you read the following posts? Are some of the ALM Rangers Symbiotic PM’s? Thinking about PM !=...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/04/2014
Ranger Flash – June 2014 … gearing up for another adventurous year
You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news TFS...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/03/2014
Visual Studio ALM Community Widgets (aka.ms/widgets)
This page has been retired and has been migrated to our Visual Studio ALM Rangers team blog! ...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/18/2014
Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 2 … Portfolio, flights, teams, epics and VSO
Last time instantiated a thread on Normali[s|z]ed estimations and continue with our use of Visual...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/09/2014
Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 1 … Normali[s|z]ed estimations?
Let’s start a series of transparent discussions in terms of managing distributed, part-time and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/06/2014
Ranger Flash – May 2014
You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news Version...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/04/2014
TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS guidance embraces build
We are pleased to announce that the v1.4 BETA of the TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide now...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/03/2014
Visual Studio ALM Ranger Important Links
We are often asked where we keep the chest full of ALM Ranger treasures. Here is a summary of...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/29/2014
Version Control Guidance v3.0 flight has landed delivering three great guides and lots of visuals
We are pleased to announce that the v3.0 of the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guide has...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/29/2014
Anthony delivers another great ALM Walkthrough, this time in Vancouver!
In the true spirit of an ALM MVP and ALM Ranger, Anthony Borton took a drive from Redmond to...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/26/2014
The first Rangers guide emerges from new copy-edit program … worth it?
The Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guide team has refreshed the v3.BETA - Visual Studio...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/23/2014
Unit Test Generator v1.3 and a chat about its origin and future
We are pleased to announce that the v1.3 of the Unit Test Generator has shipped. It is a bug-fix...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/20/2014
TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4.BETA has shipped!
We are pleased to announce that the v1.4 BETA has of the TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide has...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/13/2014
What is the ALM Rangers year-end, grooming and recognition process all about?
Every year we get to the end of the financial year, which triggers the recognition phase for all...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/13/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian Messerich
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/09/2014
ALM Community shipped the Flight Plan … a simple, known and informative view!
Our ALM community leads from South-Africa, Robert MacLean and Gordon Beeming, have just shipped the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/08/2014
Delving into the new Version Control Guidance … what’s changed (1) and where is Git?
As mentioned in Version Control guidance v3.BETA flight has landed the team has done a great job...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/07/2014
Ranger Flash – April 2014
beta news Version Control guidance v3.BETA flight has landed delivering a crisper, more...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/05/2014
Version Control guidance v3.BETA flight has landed
We are pleased to announce that the v3 BETA has of the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/01/2014
Software Development with Feature Toggles
Bill Heys is cooking up a storm! He just published his latest articles focused on feature toggling...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/01/2014
What happened to the vsarPlanningGuide and vsarVersionControl silent releases?
We introduced the concept of silent releases introducing early BETA bits to a small group of...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/29/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Peter Oreland
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/29/2014
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Georg Drobny
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/28/2014