Willy's Reflections
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TFS 2012 Storyboard with Kinect – Sprint 3 Feedback
A quick status update from the team to share phenomenal progress made in the sprint that ends on...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/28/2012
Master ALM Rangers Treasure Map - Sprint 3 Feedback and a Question
A quick update from the team, to ensure that you are informed on what is happening, what has been...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/28/2012
FAQ – How can I determine which of the 100’s of ALM Ranger emails is important to “Gregg”?
A very special colleague “Gregg” asked me a while ago which emails from the ALM Rangers are relevant...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/27/2012
TOC – DemoMate Solutions
This blog post pulls together all the DemoMate solutions developed for the Visual Studio ALM...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/25/2012
Practical Kanban – Hotfix 20120924
The Practical Kanban Guidance team has published a hotfix for the Microsoft Kanban 1.0 -...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/24/2012
ALM Assessment – Team adds handy poster
To complement the latest positioning presentation, the team have added (1) a handy poster and (2) a...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/22/2012
HandsOnVisualStudio … a great for and by the community initiative
Two of our ALM Rangers, Hosam Kamel and Ayman El-Hattab, have been involved in a phenomenal...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/19/2012
ALM Assessment – Team adds handy context presentation
The ALM Assessment Guidance team has added a useful presentation to their latest release downloads,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/17/2012
Visual Studio ALM Ranger Solutions
NOTICE: 2013-05-16 This page has been retired! Please refer to https://aka.ms/vsarsolutions in...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/14/2012
ALM Rangers Triage #1 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
In January 2012 we moved the internal and labour intensive ALM Ranger ideas submission and stack...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/13/2012
Do you like Rap music? Please support one of the rising stars in the Vancouver community!
It is always fun to remind my boys that Rap music was not invented by their generation and we had...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/11/2012
Rangers Flash – August 2012
PROJECT NEWS Visual Studio Readiness Update We sim-shipped the ALM Rangers Readiness content with...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/07/2012
Extraordinary ALM Ranger contributions … the tenacity, motivation and passion is phenomenal!
When we introduced the new ALM Rangers Ecosystem (ALM Rangers ... an update on our exciting journey...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/07/2012
Random Poll: What do you think of the latest Demo Factory nuggets?
ALM Rangers Demo Factory Team release their first demo nuggets! signalled the release of the new and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/05/2012
ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding and the “Angst” Factor – Part 3
This is a continuation of the ALM Ranger solution types and a practical walkthrough of the Quick...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/31/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Tarun Arora
Who you are? Casual Q&A at MVP Summit 2015 I am a Passionate Technologist. What makes you...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/30/2012
Cowabunga! Visual Studio ALM Rangers Readiness “GIG” goes RTM!
With the RTM of Visual Studio 2012 and our Readiness “GIG”, we enter the next chapter in our mission...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/15/2012
ALM Ranger solution types and a practical walkthrough of the Quick Response concept (Part 2)
in World-Wide Virtual Teams from the ALM Rangers perspective (Part 1) we introduced the concept of...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/09/2012
Rangers Flash – July 2012
PROJECT NEWS Visual Studio Readiness “GIG” The latest release notes can be found here. The ALM...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/06/2012
Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #8 – PowerShell
As part of the ALM Ranger Hands-on lab and associated environment setup, we have started using...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/06/2012
ALM Ranger Readiness Solution – CodePlex Updates #2
Since ALM Ranger Readiness Solution – CodePlex Updates we have “silently” updated a few more of the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/03/2012
Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #7 – Doing technical demos (Snippets, etc.)
We recently completed the internal technical event, during which the ALM Rangers presented no less...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/03/2012
Seattle – Day 3 … the Ranger awareness drive continues
Pictures of the Day Thoughts of the day Task.WaitAll(taskAnalyzeFeedbackFirst,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/26/2012
Seattle – Day 2: The Battle continues
Sorry, today we will be brief as we had lots of sessions today and are all tired … chrrrzzzzz …...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/24/2012
Seattle – Day 1: Presenting the blueprint
Pictures of the day As you can surely notice, the first ALM Rangers session was special, fun and we...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/24/2012
ALM Ranger Readiness Solution – CodePlex Updates
We have near-silently refreshed a number of ALM Ranger projects on CodePlex this week. When I...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/20/2012
ALM Rangers preparing for technical event in Seattle … Pictures to follow!
TechReady is technical readiness event that takes place twice a year, bringing together Microsoft...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/20/2012
FAQ – How many ALM Ranger initiatives can/should I commit to?
If you read through Understanding the Visual Studio ALM Rangers you will quickly realize that the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/14/2012
FAQ - When can I submit ideas for ALM Ranger projects?
In Submit your Visual Studio idea using UserVoice we explained how we listen to new ideas and how...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/13/2012
World-Wide Virtual Teams from the ALM Rangers perspective (Part 1)
Our team has been discussing books and, more recently, articles focused on leadership. The latest...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/11/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Dmitry Andreev
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/10/2012
Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #6 – LINQ (Language Integrated Query)
Continued from Notes #3 – C# … re-visiting some interesting features, a quick de-tour through Notes...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/09/2012
Submit your Visual Studio idea using UserVoice
The Visual Studio team is actively listening to your feedback and is very interested in your ideas...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/06/2012
TFS Integration Tools – Issue: “This tool requires the TFS client object model”
Issue When installing the TFS Integration Tools on a machine that only has the Team Explorer...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/03/2012
Rangers Flash – June 2012
PROJECT NEWS Visual Studio Readiness “GIG” The latest release notes can be found here, whereby the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/03/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesse Houwing
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/03/2012
Important URLs and our dream of 500,000 downloads
For those that attended the recent RangersTalk session, Bijan’s dream of crossing the 500,000...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/28/2012
Community TFS Team Tools released on CodePlex
Mattias Sköld released the Community TFS Team Tools Codeplex project, taking the ALM Rangers Quick...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/28/2012
Rex Tang drives ALM Ranger guidance localization in Japan!
The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦) have started with the localization...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/27/2012
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers (aka.ms/vsarindex)
List of all active Visual Studio ALM Rangers from around the globe. This page has been retired and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/22/2012
Visual Studio Coded UI for Word Add-In v2 Sample Solution has shipped! (cross post)
We are pleased to announce that we have released the sample solution with support for Visual Studio...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/16/2012
Highlighting the decline of ALM Rangers Cadence
Usually “decline” is associated with a negative trend, for example decline in number of Whales or...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/12/2012
Was my career an accident?
I recently prepared a talk for Southpointe Academy and was flabbergasted when the student who...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/10/2012
Rangers Flash – May 2012
PROJECT NEWS Visual Studio Readiness “GIG” Wave #2...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/07/2012
Seattle Central Square was eerie tonight …
Thanks to a rather intense (for others) and time consuming border crossing I only made it to Seattle...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/07/2012
ALM Rangers – Quick Reference Guidance Downloads for Visual Studio 2012 RC refreshed
We have just refreshed Visual Studio ALM Quick Reference Guidance download package for Visual Studio...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/07/2012
Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #4 – Robert MacLean and co. poster and other gems!
When working on Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #3 – C# … re-visiting some interesting features I...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/05/2012