We are pleased to announce two release updates to the Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance (Coded UI) and the TFS Upgrade Guide projects. Test Tooling Guide (Coded UI) v1.1 The v1.1 - Visual Studio 2012 Coded UI Test Guide now contains the new guide...

Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 bring a valuable set of features and capabilities to agile teams, providing an easy, simple-to-use experience on top of a powerful, customizable platform that is continually evolving. We were the first...

We recently received queries and noticed a thread on http://stackoverflow.com/q/14656952/736079 which mentioned s strange error that seems to have been introduced with our TFSBranchTool after Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 was released. Error Execution of...

We are pleased to announce two releases, one update and a brand new solution. Test Release Management Guidance v1.1 Update This Visual Studio ALM Ranger project has the primary goal of delivering scenario based and hands-on guidance for managing your...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See   Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for more details. Who you are? I am a technology enthusiast and hardworking programmer. Focus in on .NET, distributed architectures, development methodologies...

The ALM Readiness treasure map team delivered a phenomenal session, especially their captain Robert Bernstein who went the extra mile … I will let the pictures do the talking … … Captain Robert Bernstein The summit party was loud, but fun … Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

  TechReady 16 continued today with four great sessions by the ALM Rangers. Whether trying to figure out which bin to use or which session type to chose, the choice is phenomenal. Wednesday Micheal Learned and Matt Mitrik started the day with an...

TechReady 16 started on Monday morning, after a great midnight snack, an early stroll through a misty Redmond to the Overlake transport centre, a quick bus ride and converging at the conference centre with hundreds of technology geeks. Monday The Dev...

Last month we shipped the paper based ALM Readiness treasure map as mentioned in: ALM Readiness Treasure Map … arrrrrrrrr! Today we released the Windows Store application that delivers the same treasure map and much more to your Surface or other Windows...

Today I pretended to be a mushroom … Robert Bernstein gave me a strange look yesterday, when I told him about my Saturday plans and I guess it is best to explain what I mean. … A mushroom typically grows in the dark and does not move around a lot … in...

ALM Rangers are passionate about technology and about adding value to the ALM community. Many have said that they do not have a 24x7 job … they are having fun 24x7. It is extremely important that our “hobby” and the “fun” does not turn into a “job” …...

We have projects that are umbrella projects for other “related” projects, which are loosely coupled and usually share no common codebase. Our current logical structure in version control usually looks as follows. Each sub-product or initiative is represented...

This week we had the rare event of two events coinciding, allowing us the opportunity to bring together a subset of the ALM Rangers and finally being able to map names, avatars and virtual characters. ALM Summit The ALM Summit is a public event that allows...

Thanks to Robert who has to endure three long coding and debugging days next to me at the pre-TR events, the Win8-Kbd-Cheat Sheet has gone through a few revisions. It is intended for those who need the common navigation keyboard shortcuts: Any ideas on...

To create some distractions in the weekly status emails we have been sharing some snippets from photos which have been published on this blog, documentation, or our Facebook pages. Here are the solutions for the January snippets … From the TFSBranchTool...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See   Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for more details. Who you are? I'm Vinicius Hana, a consultant and trainer at Lambda3 ( www.lambda3.com.br ) with a strong passion for solving problems...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See   Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for more details. Who are you I am a user experience developer consultant in Microsoft’s Solution Development team. I have always enjoyed art and design...

Vinicius Moura and colleagues have just translated the ALM Assessment slides and the poster (created for the English and German communities by Sven Hubert ) to Portuguese (Brazil). Update 2013-02-01 – The Brazil Portuguese package now include the Excel...

In ALM Readiness Treasure Map … arrrrrrrrr! we announced a ALM Readiness treasure map which contains links to PFE workshops.   The links (treasure40-44) point to this location as the associated links (redmond|itoe|PFEMIP|Released|Workshops) are pointing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We have been asked as to when or why we are releasing the source code for our solutions. To find some answers we will start a discussion around the types of solutions we are working on, when/how we typically release the source code and explain some of...

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...