Rangers Flash – November 2011

Projects News

• CodedUI (VSCUG) … We have two out of three assessments (Geopol, Accessibility & Privacy) completed.
• Word4TFS (TFSWP) … Working on improving the user experience to make templates easier to use and to design.
• Visual Studio 11 Readiness … the teams are hard at work to meet upcoming milestones, such as ALPHA review, Show-What-You-Have event #2, TechReady14 Hands-on Lab submission and load balancing resources to help extinguish some of the normal IT-fires
  

Community News

• Brian Minisi has a cover story in the November issue of DevProConnections on Agile versus Scrum using TFS 2010.
• Vladimir Gusarov has just posted his presentation from TechEd Russia.
• Rangers mentioned on the Rangers Index this month listed in sequence of appearance: Jakob Ehn, Prasanna Ramkumar, Roy Robertson, Tony Whitter
  - Are you listed on the index? If not and you are a Ranger why not?
• André Dias, according to Disneyland Paris, is officially a Ranger
  
• We expect all ALM Rangers to understand the process and personas. Unsure? Check the “Getting Started” sections on the Rangers portal!

Visual Studio Gallery and Other Bits and Pieces

• Minor Hotfix update on Codeplex: Applying to formatting hotfixes to ALM Rangers guidance … and subtle caution for next wave of guidance!
• Some (we cannot list them all) noteworthy blog posts from this week:
  - Platforms > Implementations
  - Team Foundation Server – Trying to understand Server versus Local Workspaces
  - The Sprint is a container for Planning and not necessarily for Delivery
  - Displaying AIS data on a Simrad NX40 using a Standard Horizon Matrix 2150
  - Windows Phone 7 not synchronising Outlook
  - We need to teach children computer science

Closing Humo(u)r

• Senior moments … Michael Fourie has pointed us at an interesting blog post … Blame My Doorway For Senior Moments

• Ever wondered why North America calls Autumn the Fall? I am experiencing it first-hand … you rake up the leaves that have fallen, you go to bed, you wake up, you walk into the previously tidy garden in the morning and start wondering whether you had another senior moment (see above) … because the all the leaves are back
  

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