Ranger Flash – January 2014 … welcome to a new year of bit and byte adventures!

Here is a sneak preview of our Rangers portfolio dashboard as generated by the vsarFlightPlan research solution, using real-time VS Online WIT backlog data.

latest landings

• Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 posted

great forthcoming attractions

• Take a peek at vsarFlightPlan here: https://sdrv.ms/La0W1P
• Visual Studio Lab Management Guide v3 upgrade release is imminent

welcome

Please welcome the following new ALM Rangers: Alan Morais, Baruch Frei, Lalil Patel, Rajesh Podapati, Wanderson Lima and Wouter de Kort.

champions 2014

Congratulations to all the Visual Studio ALM Ranger 2014 Champions the best of the best, nominated by their ALM Ranger peers.  

tfs 2013 training discounts

Anthony Borton arranged a special discount for any ALM Rangers who would like to attend one of our TFS 2013 courses. Any ALM Ranger that signs up can use a voucher to receive a 25% discount of the cost of the course. As you know, courses can be attended remotely from anywhere in the USA/Canada.

presenting at the alm forum in april

Jim Szubryt is delivering a sessiom on how large enterprises can use ALM tools for application delivery at the ALM Forum Seattle.

tfs 2013 customi[s|z]ation book

Gordon Beeming delivered a great customisation gem. Get your copy today!

new custom t-shirts

Two new special t-shirts for four special ALM Rangers for phenomenal testimonials and great contributions.

VS Anywhere

A group of ALM Rangers (João Paulo Rodrigues, Cesar Solis Brito, Bipin Puthiyaveetil, Robert MacLean, Brian Minisi, Michael Fourie, Gordon Beeming) have started dog-fooding the VS Anywhere product in our project environment. Watch the space for evaluation news.

interesting reading

• Must-have extensions for Visual Studio 2013
• Ruck is not another process, it is simply “loose Scrum” … in the context of the ALM Rangers
• How do you normalise your velocity estimation?
• A Pile of Puppies
• Visually Creating Snippets
• ALM Rangers Mission Statement … tweaked for the first time in 7 years
• What … it has been 5 years already? Time flies when you are having fun :)
• ALM Rangers Ruck – Proposed innovations to the v1.2 guidance. Thoughts?
• Localised video gems for Visual Studio 2013 … get the popcorn!

techready 18 was fun, see you at tr19

Enjoy a few pictures from TechReady 18 and a few more pictures from TechReady 18. The Rangers achieved a phenomenal average (out of 5), which means that we are once again Bijan’s best friends  

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A special t-shirt for Brian. An idea that evolved from the champion awards feedback. Proof that the courier services are not as gentle with our packages as we would like them to be. Sorry Casey! … but the custom design does look spectacular :) Christian Nielsen made sure to represent ALM at TechReady :) Superbowl fever in Seattle! Go Seahawks!