Are you looking for a magic cure-all for planning team environments in Visual Studio? If yes, you are not alone! The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have been dogfooding different models, infrastructures, and technologies since 2006 in search of a solution that meets their unique requirements for disconnected...

We are pleased to announce that we have released the second update to version (1.1.13.0202) of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in, adding support for Word 2013. This build is the first 2012-only build with support for Word 2013. It also includes fixes to some problems found since the first public...

The ALM Rangers have completed the project “ kick-off ” meeting this morning, to address the Add "Create Unit Tests" menu option back idea on UserVoice as mentioned in the recent ALM Rangers Triage #3 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice report. Codename Raven … symbolizing knowledge,...

In September 2012 a small team of ALM Rangers got together and started what has turned out to be one of the most interesting and fun IT journeys I have experienced  to date and one that will potentially deliver immense value to the ALM community as a side effect. Why did we start the journey? When...

Champions 2013 Congratulations to all the winners and also the runners up! You guys lead by example and inject the passion, commitment, expertise, empathy, trust and professionalism which fuels our phenomenal community! Brian Blackman wins the ALM Rangers Ruck Master Champion 2013 Award Tony Whitter...

Michael Fourie has been nominated by his peers and has won the Champion of Champions award for being the brightest star amongst ALM Rangers over the past twelve months, who we admire & respect. “Unedited” comments submitted with some of the nominations: No one matches the energy and enthusiasm that...

Vladimir Gusarov has been nominated by his peers and has won the 933>| < GEEK /> award for being passionate about solutions and the creator of great bits & bytes over the past twelve months. “Unedited” comments submitted with some of the nominations: "passionate about solutions and...

Larry Guger has been nominated by his peers and has won the Product Owner Champion award for owning & making tough decisions on scope & stakeholders over the past twelve months. “Unedited” comments submitted with some of the nominations: He is very approachable, extremely knowledgeable and is...

Joshua Weber has been nominated by his peers and has won the Product Group Champion award for nurturing bridges between the product group and the ALM Rangers over the past twelve months. “Unedited” comments submitted with some of the nominations: It’s been a breath of fresh air working with him. He always...

Tony Whitter has been nominated by his peers and has won the Project Lead Champion award for loving transparency, being focused on fine tuning his teams and overall collaboration over the past twelve months. “Unedited” comments submitted with some of the nominations: Manages the IntelliTrace project...

Brian Blackman has been nominated by his peers and has won the Ruck Master Champion award for being the top mentor, guide and coach for project leads and teams over the past twelve months.   “Unedited” comments submitted with some of the nominations: He's the only one! On a more serious note, Brian...

With the RTM of Visual Studio 2012 and our Readiness “GIG” , we enter the next chapter in our mission to accelerate the adoption of Visual Studio with out-of-band ALM Ranger solutions for feature gaps and value-add guidance for the ALM community. I would like to take this opportunity to THANK all ALM...

TechReady is technical readiness event that takes place twice a year, bringing together Microsoft engineers from all over the world. The ALM Rangers will be representing the latest wave of readiness solutions. Watch a movie that covers the latest release candidate wave of ALM Ranger readiness solutions...

The Visual Studio team is actively listening to your feedback and is very interested in your ideas to improve the products. This includes the Visual Studio ALM Rangers who are actively reviewing the feedback and looking for new ALM Ranger project opportunities, which will deliver the out-of-band solutions...

For those that attended the recent RangersTalk session, Bijan’s dream of crossing the 500,000 downloads in FY13 for ALM Ranger solutions on CodePlex milestone is nothing new. It is an ambitious goal, just what he ALM Rangers need. If we continue at the current rate, we will breach 420,000 by the end...

In External Ranger Champions 2011.1 and “the” Champion of Champions are announced! we announced the most recent External Ranger Champions , who are nominated twice a year by the Ranger family outside of Microsoft. In this post it gives me great pleasure to announce four Rangers who have won a special...

Daniel Oliveira raised the Visual Studio ALM Rangers awareness flag in Brazil by publishing an article on the Rangers in the Mundo.net magazine. Visit http://www.mundodotnet.com.br/conteudo.shtml for more information.

Zayd and Robert hosted a great Rangers awareness and integrative TFS discussion session at TechED. For me the session was exciting not only because I noticed a number of attendees showing interest for the Rangers and actively collaborating in the Q&A, but we even had Francisco from Ecudaor , Martin...