http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2012/03/31/understanding-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers.aspxWho are we? We started the VSTS Rangers program in March 2006 as a joint venture between the Visual Studio Team System team and the Worldwide Communities program, part of the Office of the CTO in the Microsoft Services organization. A couple of yearsen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2012/03/31/understanding-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers.aspx#10365941Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:15:08 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10365941Willy-P. Schaub<p>With &quot;out-of-band&quot; we refer to add-on features developed by the ALM Rangers and released separately from the product main release cycle. Guess it comes from the world of communication, such as the out-of-band TCP data which is a separate stream of data from the main data stream.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10365941" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2012/03/31/understanding-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers.aspx#10365936Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:02:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10365936User<p>Out-of-band ?? </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10365936" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2012/03/31/understanding-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers.aspx#10318900Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:58:28 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10318900Willy-P. Schaub<p>@Strange name, thank you for your feedback. We have now included a definition for ALM and Ranger at the end of the first section.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10318900" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2012/03/31/understanding-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers.aspx#10318798Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:59:04 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10318798Strange name<p>Assume ALM is &#39;Application Lifecycle Management&#39;, although that&#39;s not made clear anywhere obvious.</p> <p>&#39;Rangers&#39; must be a culturally specific reference.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10318798" width="1" height="1">