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Ranger Flash – August 2014 … Planets are aligned

  You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news TFS on Azure IaaS...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/02/2014

Aligning our planets with a common cadence and synchronization

We recently changed our sprint cadence with the rest of the organization, creating turbulence for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/29/2014

Fun of PM.2 … Energi[s|z]ing the team

Continuing with the program management (PM) persona from Fun of PM.1 … Persona within the ALM...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/27/2014

Fun of PM.1 … Persona within the ALM Rangers

We are transitioning and evolving our ecosystem, infrastructure, process, and leadership of the ALM...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/22/2014

Pirates ship ALM Readiness Treasure Map v3 release for Windows 8.1

We are pleased to announce the third major release of ALM Readiness Treasure Map v3 to the Windows...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/18/2014

Ben Roscorla joins the ALM Rangers Ruck Masters … Ruck?

Congratulations to Ben Roscorla who joined the list of Scrum/Ruck Masters on Index of ALM Rangers....

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/12/2014

ALM Rangers Triage #8 - What happened to your idea on UserVoice?

If you have recently submitted an ALM Rangers solution idea on Visual Studio UserVoice, please...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/11/2014

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Steve St Jean

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/11/2014

Ranger Flash – July 2014 … Turbulent weather, events and lots of pizza

  You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news ¿Habla Español? …...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/06/2014

What happens when 13 Rangers meet on a weekend to discuss a framework?

Using the weekend after TR19, we had a unique opportunity to get 13 ALM Rangers into a room to work...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alex Belotserkovskiy

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – José Freire Neto

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Daniel Mann

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sergio A Romero

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/05/2014

Getting ready for a weekend of candid discussions around scaling agile

More pictures emerged from TR, taken by João Paulo Rodrigues. Pirates … arrrrrrrr! … Robert...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/01/2014

¿Habla Español? … Version Control Guides v3

Juan Maria Lao took it upon himself to translate the three available version control guides to...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/01/2014

ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 4 impressions … what about day 3?

Sorry, day three my laptop imploded an hour before our session, leaving me wondering what I have...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/01/2014

Triage of ideas … ∆ process changes

We are about to post the triage #8 results. Before we delve into the results, let us review how we...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/29/2014

ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 2 impressions

To allow us to match ALM Ranger faces and names from the aka.ms/vsarindex, and share some of the fun...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/29/2014

Building a Release Pipeline with TFS 2012 now includes HOLs for TFS 2013

We are pleased to announce that the Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/29/2014

ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 1 impressions

A few of the ALM Rangers have three precious opportunities every year to meet face:face at the...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/28/2014

Integrating “News” in the VS IDE … a cool extension update!

Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora released v1.2 of the News extension, which allows you to get...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/28/2014

¿Habla Español? … Testing Unitario con Microsoft® Fakes v1.2

Juan Maria does it again by updating the localised Testing Unitario con Microsoft® Fakes v1.1 guide...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/15/2014

Let us re-iterate the family>job>rangers mantra and point to our dash / flight board for the ALM Rangers and community

We often get asked what we mean with “family>job>rangers”, what projects we working on, what...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/14/2014

Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 5 … Which visuali[s|z]ation catches your eye?

We continue from Objectives and repetition, Prioritization, Normali[s|z]ed estimations, Portfolio,...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/10/2014

Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 4 … Sprint objectives and repetition rule!

We continue from Prioritization, Normali[s|z]ed estimations, Portfolio, flights, teams, epics and...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/07/2014

Have you ever pondered whether you would be interested in the Program Manager (PM) role?

Have you read the following posts? Are some of the ALM Rangers Symbiotic PM’s? Thinking about PM !=...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/04/2014

Ranger Flash – June 2014 … gearing up for another adventurous year

  You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news  TFS...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/03/2014

Visual Studio ALM Community Widgets (aka.ms/widgets)

This page has been retired and has been migrated to our Visual Studio ALM Rangers team blog! ...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/18/2014

Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 2 … Portfolio, flights, teams, epics and VSO

Last time instantiated a thread on Normali[s|z]ed estimations and continue with our use of Visual...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/09/2014

Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 1 … Normali[s|z]ed estimations?

Let’s start a series of transparent discussions in terms of managing distributed, part-time and...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/06/2014

Ranger Flash – May 2014

  You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan news  Version...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/04/2014

TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS guidance embraces build

We are pleased to announce that the v1.4 BETA of the TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide now...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/03/2014

We are often asked where we keep the chest full of ALM Ranger treasures. Here is a summary of...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/29/2014

Version Control Guidance v3.0 flight has landed delivering three great guides and lots of visuals

We are pleased to announce that the v3.0 of the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guide has...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/29/2014

Anthony delivers another great ALM Walkthrough, this time in Vancouver!

In the true spirit of an ALM MVP and ALM Ranger, Anthony Borton took a drive from Redmond to...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/26/2014

The first Rangers guide emerges from new copy-edit program … worth it?

The Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guide team has refreshed the v3.BETA - Visual Studio...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/23/2014

Unit Test Generator v1.3 and a chat about its origin and future

We are pleased to announce that the v1.3 of the Unit Test Generator has shipped. It is a bug-fix...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/20/2014

TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4.BETA has shipped!

We are pleased to announce that the v1.4 BETA has of the TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide has...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/13/2014

What is the ALM Rangers year-end, grooming and recognition process all about?

Every year we get to the end of the financial year, which triggers the recognition phase for all...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/13/2014

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian Messerich

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/09/2014

ALM Community shipped the Flight Plan … a simple, known and informative view!

Our ALM community leads from South-Africa, Robert MacLean and Gordon Beeming, have just shipped the...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/08/2014

Delving into the new Version Control Guidance … what’s changed (1) and where is Git?

As mentioned in Version Control guidance v3.BETA flight has landed the team has done a great job...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/07/2014

Ranger Flash – April 2014

beta news  Version Control guidance v3.BETA flight has landed delivering a crisper, more...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/05/2014

Version Control guidance v3.BETA flight has landed

We are pleased to announce that the v3 BETA has of the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging)...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/01/2014

Software Development with Feature Toggles

Bill Heys is cooking up a storm! He just published his latest articles focused on feature toggling...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/01/2014

What happened to the vsarPlanningGuide and vsarVersionControl silent releases?

We introduced the concept of silent releases‎ introducing  early BETA bits to a small group of...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/29/2014

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Peter Oreland

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/29/2014

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Georg Drobny

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See Ranger Index (Who is Who?) for...

Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/28/2014

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