ALM | DevOps Rangers
Providing practical guidance, experience, and gap-filling solutions to the developer community.
Switch from push to pull communication
Like any good agile project, the Rangers walk the walk and continuously look for ways to improve our...
Author: Edward Fry Date: 09/23/2016
Transformation from a secret society to a community
You may remember a session at the MVP Summit 2007. The founder of the ALM Rangers, Bijan Javidi,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/20/2016
Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Ranger?
The ALM Rangers recently celebrated their 10th birthday, and we are adding even more goodness with...
Author: Edward Fry Date: 09/16/2016
Pin a detailed view of your work item(s) on your dashboard
We are pleased to announce the Work Item Details widget sample extension, created by Mikael Krief,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/13/2016
Extensions for TFS and Team Services on the marketplace
Our list of DevLabs extensions has grown from four, back in November 2015, to eleven on the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/23/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Igor Rosa Macedo
Who are you? Igor Rosa Macedo, a DevOps and ALM consultant at ESX (a Brazilian Microsoft Partner). I...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/19/2016
Why are we open sourcing our extensions?
We plan to open source many of our solutions, listed on library of tooling and guidance solutions,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/17/2016
Why are extensions requesting permissions to access resources?
We have received the question ”why is extension X requesting permission to access resources Y” a few...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/11/2016
See how many build minutes are being used by users, build definitions, and team projects with the Build Usage extension
The Build Usage extension, created by André Dias, allows you show how many build minutes are being...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/07/2016
Extension updates to add feedback section and squash more bugs
We are pleased to announce that the Folder Management and Work Item Visualization extensions have...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/06/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rodrigo Antunes
Who are you? With a Consulting background for around 8 years, since 2014 I’m a Development Premier...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/04/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Chris Mason
Why do you want to join the ALM Rangers? I have a passion and for building great software and I...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 08/04/2016
The new Branching Guidance for Team Foundation Server, Team Services, and others
We released the first version of the branching guidance 10 years ago and the second in 2010 on...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/18/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jonas Weibel
Who are you? I work as an Application Development Manager at Microsoft Switzerland assisting...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/18/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Daniel van der Starre
Who are you? My name is Daniël van der Starre and I am a DevOps\ALM Consultant at Ordina...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/18/2016
Release Management Workflow Migrator v1
We are pleased to announce that we have released v1.0 of the Release Management Workflow Migrator...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/16/2016
Release notes for the latest tools and extensions (aka.ms/vsarreleases)
Get information about new features and bug fixes included in the latest releases of tools and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/15/2016
Why is my work item not showing up on the board or in an unexpected swimlane?
While performing exploratory testing on an upcoming revision of the Roll-up Board extension, we have...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/13/2016
Raspberry Pi2 Codify Build Lighting up the Microsoft Vancouver (aka.ms/mvbuildlight)
Codify/build-light from Codify in Brisbane, enabled us to implement a visual status indicator of all...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/12/2016
Roll-up your backlog board and display an aggregated view on your dashboards
We are pleased to announce the Roll-up Board Widget, created by Mikael Krief, allows you to display...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/26/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Gregory Ott
Who are you? I’m Gregory Ott, I live and work in Lyon, France. My daily work is focused on tooling...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/21/2016
Sample Data gets you started with Agile and SAFe on Visual Studio Team Services
The Sample Data Widget, released in March, allowed you to generate sample work item data to quickly...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/17/2016
Running SonarQube behind an IIS Reversed Proxy
Securing your SonarQube server can be challenging. Previously there were many options to do so...
Author: Hosam Kamel Date: 06/04/2016
TFVC Branch Hierarchy Visualization extension revised
The Branch Visualization extension, created by Mikael Krief, Michel Perfetti and Niel Zeeman, allows...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/31/2016
What do you think of our definition of done (DoD) for Extensions? (aka.ms/vsarDoD)
The Scrum Guide recommends that when anyone states “Done”, everybody in the team understands what...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/26/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Kees Verhaar
Why do you want to join the ALM Rangers I believe that when people share their experiences and...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/20/2016
I need an on-prem version of the Visual Studio Team Services extension!
Looking at the Visual Studio Team Services Features Timeline, it is evident that the cadence in the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/14/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Derek Keeler
Who are you? I am Derek Keeler, Senior Software Development Engineer for Microsoft. I work for the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/12/2016
Planning … it’s all about people!
A very long and interesting chat with Steve St Jean triggered this post. It’s a list of learning's...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/12/2016
A really COOL feature we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services … boards becomes alive
No more “please refresh the board” requests when you share the Kanban board during a teleconference...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/13/2016
Two COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services … welcome Testers!
We continue highlighting new features on Visual Studio Team Services that are proving really...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/09/2016
Latest Folder Management extension closes our oldest extension debt
When Wouter de Kort resolved the impediment #11455 in the Folder Management extension, he also...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/09/2016
File owner extension
The File Owner extension, created by Abel Wang, with the help from Wouter de Kort and Mikael Krief,...
Author: Anisha Pindoria Date: 04/05/2016
Azure Active Directory (AAD) Authentication Plug-in for SonarQube
The AAD OAuth2 provider for SonarQube, created by Hosam Kamel and Jean-Marc Prieur (product owner),...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/29/2016
TFVC Branch Visualization extension
The Branch Visualization extension, created by Mikael Krief, Michel Perfetti and Niel Zeeman, allows...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/29/2016
Sample data widget
The sample data extension, created by Mattias Sköld (project lead), Niel Zeeman, Hassan Fadili, and...
Author: Anisha Pindoria Date: 03/25/2016
Our first steps of embracing DevOps when building Visual Studio Team Services Extensions
Visual Studio Team Services extensions allow us to provide gap-filling solutions on the Visual...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/25/2016
Three COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services
We continue highlighting new features on Visual Studio Team Services that are proving really...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/19/2016
Ranger Jan-Feb 2016 Flash – Welcome new guidance and widgets!
Sorry for the delay of the January flash, but we were counting down while waiting for the countdown...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/23/2016
Print cards v2 extension
The Print Cards extension, created by Gordon Beeming and Robert MacLean, allows you to print cards...
Author: Anisha Pindoria Date: 02/19/2016
Show area path dependencies extension
The Show Area Path Dependencies extension, created by Niel Zeeman with help from Steve St Jean,...
Author: Anisha Pindoria Date: 02/17/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Kevin Mack
Who are you? My name is Kevin Mack, and I’ve been working in the software industry for 12 years,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/15/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ed Elliott
Why did you want to join the ALM Rangers? Firstly, I have been really impressed with the content...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/15/2016
What do you think of the new crisp and practical guidance?
We have made significant progress with our plans to innovate and modernise our guidance solutions....
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/05/2016