Mike is heading up this exciting project. Included in this post is the vision and the objective of the project, whereby I am more than happy to discuss more details with you if needed. For the sake of text re-use, all text indicated in italic has been...

In Good news for TFS 2005, 2008 and in future 2010 users in terms of compatibility … ‘ZAYD’ take note we briefly mentioned support in Team Explorer (TE) 2005 and TE 2008 for interoperability with Team Foundation Server 2010. So we have the good news that...

I have had discussions around the Visual Studio Team System 2010 Community Technology Preview (CTP) releases and the evaluations I did while operating on the other side, i.e. as a Team System MVP. Here is a list of relevant links to posts on my previous...

The first part of a small series as mentioned in A pre-amble to the basics of Scrum , this post is focused on the scrum roles and how we see them fit into the Visual Studio ALM Rangers world of projects. IMPORTANT POINT: It is important to emphasize that...

On the community blog server, http://dotnet.org.za back home in South-Africa, I noticed a series of WTF (will not elaborate on the acronym, unless it stands for w ord t o f ield) which is turning ugly. So much so, that I felt like placing my Swiss steel...

If you have perused TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091014 … the mission and the results to date … the mission and the results to date you have a good understanding of what has transpired. To visualise the previous post, I created the following...

This is a continuation of the dog fooding discussions: ALM Rangers switching to single TPC/TP and multiple Teams model ALM Ranger solution types and a practical walkthrough of the Quick Response concept (Part 2)   ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding and the...

We are often asked to offer our feedback and comments as part of a course, a presentation or a product review. Usually the feedback is given and received as candid feedback, as constructive criticism and as an opportunity to recognise areas of opportunity...

Continued from our recent discussion, SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … exploring common models (part 3 of many) . Agile Manifesto Agile manifesto, quoted unchanged from http://www.agilemanifesto.org/ Agility on the  move If you want to stir...

We are working on creating a readiness package for the TFS Integration Package, which includes a usage document from Hyung for some of the new features … all of which we will quickly mention in this blog post. Let me know if you want/need more information...

Today we have just published a new Visual Studio ALM Rangers solution, one of the last of the Visual Studio 2010 guidance focused projects. The exciting new family member includes … Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance Practical guidance for...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. this post we briefly investigate and summarize virtual memory management. Last time we looked at memory … today we virtualize and take a sneak peek at virtual memory. ...

Continued from posts TFS Integration Tools (Platform) … The world of TFS Project Template migrations - Part 1 and TFS Integration Tools (Platform) … The world of TFS Project Template (MSF Agile v4 to v5) migrations – Part 2 . In the recent post we looked...

We recently (already 3 months) landed in Vancouver, Canada. Coming from Africa the impact was immense and we are still being shell shocked every day with more events, such as the following top seven: There are simply no high walls, electric fencing, burglar...

Charles , alias Chuck , who works with us in the DevX Customer and Project Management team, is hosting internal, interactive, informal, invaluable and fun presentation skills sessions. Chuck and his sessions are truly amazing and therefore you should...

An update … Back in January the Visual Studio ALM Rangers shipper a wave of new guidance, which we have been revising and upgrading on an ongoing basis. The intention was to deliver guidance as early as possible to the early adopters for Visual Studio...

We recently asked the MVPs and Community Leads who are currently contributing to VSTS Rangers projects for input as to what is important to them and what we should consider as part of a recognition program. We listened, analysed the feedback and are in...

We have been receiving a number of questions around the Rangers and it is time that I sit back and answer as many as we can. Please contact us if anything is unclear, needs further explanation or if you have more questions we should be investigating....

Poster updated 2009-12-14 … this is the final update on this blog post. The final poster, in the format as below, will be included in the Visual Studio 2010 Quick reference Guidance, which is going to be published on Codeplex shortly.   This is not...

NOTE : This post is outdated. Please refer to http://vsarguidance.codeplex.com/ for the latest ALM Ranger personas. As part of the Ruck prototyping, the Rangers have embarked on a more formalised requirements management process for all new Rangers...

We continue from TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 1 (documentation) and TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 2 (try a simple migration) . In this post we look what happened after “gently” selecting START . Remember...

We announced version 3.0 in the post VSTS Rangers Projects - WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Ships , giving you a high level overview of the tool. In this post I would like to re-visit the code generated by the tool and highlight why I believe some of the features...

Continued from SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … is prototyping  part of the good, the bad and/or the evil? (part 5 of many) Overview In recent posts we spoke about requirements elicitation (i.e. interviews), processes, models (i.e. agile)...

This post invites you for input on a possible scenario we are considering as part of the guidance for the VSTS Rangers TFS Migration Tools project, which is listed as one of the VSTS Rangers initiatives mentioned in the index post here . We would appreciate...

The book, now known as the “Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010”, authored by Mickey Gousset , Brian Keller , Ajoy Krishnamoorthy , Martin Woodward is listed on Amazon and can be pre-ordered here . This promises to be...