Rangers Flash – October 2011

Projects News

• CodedUI (VSCUG) … we are in the process of going through the final process of dotting the i’s, crossing the t’s and preparing to ship.
• Word4TFS (TFSWP) … after extensive testing and feedback we are doing another productivity upgrade, after which this project will also enter the last dot the I’s and cross the t’s process, in parallel to a pilot.
• Visual Studio 11 Readiness … the teams are making huge strides and the countdown to the “start of review” phase is set at 30:14:13:44, at the time of typing this, and busy counting down. At this stage all lights are l (green) in terms of shipping most of the ALPHA bits for review in December and the BETA early next year.

Community News

• Vladimir Gusarov will be representing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers Lab Management Guidance initiative at TechEd Russia.
  Рекомендации ALM Rangers приходят на Tech*Ed 2011 Russia - DEV309: Построение и организация тестовой лаборатории для промышленной разработки
  Translation: ALM Rangers guidance comes to Tech*Ed 2011 Russia – DEV309: Building an effective testing lab for production software development.
• Rangers mentioned on the Rangers Index this month listed in sequence of appearance: Babu George Padamadan, David Hay, Harish Reddy Kothapalli, Hosam Kamel, John Spinella, Lennart Jansson and Enrico Antonacci
  
  • Are you listed? If not and you are a Ranger why not?
• Even serious Geeks can have some fun on Halloween, here are a few snippets we collected today. Do you recognize anyone?
  
• Community work: Vancouver Development Center “Caring Day” - Stanley Park Ecology Society

 

Visual Studio Gallery and Other Bits and Pieces

Some of Willy’s blogs that may be interesting:

• IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools - Training and Exploration Sandbox
• Program Management – Thinking about PM != PM and Visual Studio ALM Rangers (Part 2)
• (External) Visual Studio ALM Ranger Champions 2011.2 are known! Cowabunga!
• Have I reached a design epiphany or am I finally lost in outer orbit?

Closing Humo(u)r

Funny bumper sticker spotted in Vancouver this weekend…

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2011
  Any idea on when these will ship to the public? Are they available for review anywhere?

• Anonymous
  December 03, 2011
  What do you mean with "these"? CodedUI, Word4TFS or Visual Studio 11 Readiness?

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2012
  All 3. Are they available online for review?

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2012
  Kevin, once the quality and technical content has been verified by the Rangers, Product Owners and Subject Matter Experts, we will publish a BETA on Codeplex for early review and adoption. The CodedUI is ready to ship and we are literally waiting to get the go-ahead to "click" the publish button :)