Ranger Flash – February 2014 … short month, brief flash :)

• See Flight Plan Board for details on the exciting ALM Rangers community project delivering the new and crisper look and feel as above..
• Triage #7 has finally been completed and 3-5 new projects are spinning up as part of wave #7.
• Lab Management Guide … v3 update shipped and was recently refreshed with v3.1.

welcome

Please welcome the following new ALM Ranger Roopesh Nair.

pluralsight courseware

Here is a list of Pluralsight courses created by ALM Rangers, prompted by the new CodedUI course by Marcel de Vries:

• Git for Visual Studio Developers
• IntelliTrace
• Microsoft Test Manager 2012
• Team Foundation Server Customization
• Test Automation with CodedUI

Did we miss any? If yes, apologies and please contact me immediately!

interesting reads

• A pre announcement for…
• Using Application Insights with a new Windows Store App
• TFS Lab Management with multiple SCVMM servers
• New CodedUI course from Pluralsight
• Ask a developer for confirmation in a TFS checkin policy
• Metrics that matter with evidence-based management
• What’s cooking in the ALM Rangers home?
• ALM Ranger Solutions – Proposed innovations … a byte for your thoughts?
• ALM Rangers email etiquette … part 1
• ALM Rangers Ruck – Proposed innovations to the v1.2 guidance. Thoughts?

tools

• This is one of Michel Perfetti’s projects: https://wilinq.codeplex.com. It's on NuGet too.

A few words from our Brian Blackman , winner of the Ruck Master Champion Award 2012/13/14

Welcome our new Ruck Masters in training whom are driving towards their RM certification! You may see them in your stand ups as they shadow our current certified Ruck Masters on their existing projects:

• Robert Bernstein
• Marcus Fernandez
• Ben Roscorla

As has been mentioned in other communications we have some exciting Ruck improvements that we are adopting. Ruck Masters have been advised of the changes so look to them to help you adopt the new practices. We have blogged about these changes that you can read again. Please make yourself aware of these improvements so that you are not surprised by these changes.

tell us about your success stories!

Are you aware of a success story in which the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and/or their solutions have accelerated the adoption of Visual Studio, unblocked an engagement and/or resulted in a happy user? See Tell us about your success stories for details.

review our (your) solutions!

When you download one or more of our solutions please invest a few seconds to rate and optionally review the solution on CodePlex or the Visual Studio Gallery. We need your candid feedback and support in terms of ratings!