Willy's Reflections
| Willy-Peter Schaub | In search of IT simplicity, quality and tranquility |
Deprecating this (aka.ms/willysblog) blog
This is the last post on this blog. As we're switch off one light (https://aka.ms/willysblog), we're...
Date: 08/08/2018
devconf’s log #5 – Sad it’s over, stoked over chats, and the 25h trek home
Continued from devconf’s log #4 – “Was zum Geier?”, lean coffee, and rain it’s time to close the...
Date: 04/04/2018
devconf’s log #4 – “Was zum Geier?”, lean coffee, and rain!
Continued from devconf’s log #3 – Sessions, Cubes, and lots of collaboration. We have arrived in...
Date: 03/29/2018
devconf’s log #2 – Sun, Mandela, and no Bowtie
Continued from DevConf’s log #1 – Flights, floods, and lack of sleep. Spent the weekend relaxing,...
Date: 03/25/2018
devconf’s log #1 – Flights, floods, and lack of sleep
I am in South-Africa to share our DevOps journey at DevConf, a community driven, developer focused,...
Date: 03/24/2018
What’s with the Ravens logo?
In case you're wondering what this logo is all about … At our Microsoft Vancouver office we have an...
Date: 05/01/2017
Turning on the cold for Tiago – welcome to a cool Vancouver!
We caught up with Tiago Pascoal (MVP, ALM Ranger) in Redmond, where he was recording Application...
Date: 03/06/2017
What’s up with us playing Kanban games in the garage?
A couple of months ago a colleague, Ewald Hofman, delivered a phenomenal Kanban training at...
Date: 01/10/2017
Three great books on DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Team Foundation Server
What’s the future of books? It’s a question many of us have been asking ourselves, as the time...
Date: 12/30/2016
A Raspberry Pi2 VSTS Build Light – Part 2, assembling and installing the software
We continue from A Raspberry Pi2 VSTS Build Light – Part 1, unwrapping the package, following the...
Date: 07/03/2016
A Raspberry Pi2 VSTS Build Light – Part 1, unwrapping the package
I just received an exciting package of goodies, which I will eventually turn into a Rangers build...
Date: 06/23/2016
A morning at the food bank … keep those opened cookies!
This morning we spent a few hours at the . Thanks to catching the wrong “22” bus, I was 2 minutes...
Date: 04/01/2016
A morning at the food bank … keep those opened cookies!
This morning we spent a few hours at the . Thanks to catching the wrong “22” bus, I was 2 minutes...
Date: 04/01/2016
Talking about Scrum, Kanban, Agile Portfolio Management with Visual Studio Team Services at DevConf ZA
I had the privilege to attend, collaborate and present at the community driven and developer focused...
Date: 03/12/2016
IPELENG risk management services made my ZA trip a breeze
If you are planning a trip to sunny South-Africa (ZA), I recommend that you peruse...
Date: 03/12/2016
Completed a dream journey after only 24 years
As you probably know, diving in the ocean, sharks, ship wrecks and their history is one of my great...
Date: 01/04/2016
Remembrance day at Semihamoo beach on 11.11 @ 11:11
A few pictures from Remembrance Day, taken at the Semihamoo bay. The numerous flybys, missing man...
Date: 11/12/2015
Day of caring ... a chance to enjoy the beauty of Stanley Park
Every year the Vancouver Development Centre gathers for the day of caring, giving us an opportunity...
Date: 11/01/2015
The NEWS is back for Visual Studio 2015
The Why the Visual Studio NEWS extension is nothing to ignore or sneeze at post introduced a really...
Date: 08/18/2015
Windows 10 upgrade was uneventful, result is awesome
It was with some hesitation that I decided to click the upgrade button, to move from the Windows 8.1...
Date: 07/29/2015
Delete Team Project – are you ABSOLUTELY sure?
I just noticed a small, but very welcome feature. When you select delete for a Team Project on...
Date: 07/27/2015
Unplugging from #almrangers to enjoy the Boundary Bay airshow
I unplugged from the digital matrix and the ALM Rangers for a day to walk to and enjoy the Boundary...
Date: 07/25/2015
Learn how to implement the DevOps model of expedited software development
If you are interested to “discover how the DevOps approach to software development can improve...
Date: 07/22/2015
Visual Studio 2015 launch resources
Visual Studio launch [is|was] exciting, especially seeing our rock star Donovan Brown live. If you...
Date: 07/20/2015
First impressions last … when is it the right time to be transparent?
When we read the Scrum Theory we note that one pillar is transparency and that “significant...
Date: 07/07/2015
To break or not to break stories down into tasks …
When using Scrum we commonly have two backlogs, defined by the Scrum Guide as follows: Product...
Date: 06/12/2015
Time-slicing through a context-switching vortex and proposing a cookbook
Few realise the huge sacrifice many ALM Ranger community members are making for the ALM community....
Date: 06/07/2015
Another great community day with colleagues at the Sharing Farm
We enjoyed another great day at the https://www.sharingfarm.ca/, pulling weeds, trimming grass...
Date: 05/29/2015
Weekend pictures at the seawall, relaxing and remembering!
Pictures from Semahimoo Bay, close to our home and my favourite spot to unplug from the digital...
Date: 05/25/2015
From VSTS 2005 to VSO Rename … time flies when you are having fun!
I remember the days when my colleagues Henk, Zayd Kara and I were sitting in the team lab,...
Date: 04/24/2015
My last Rangers post on this blog and then a switch back to personal reflections …
Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 4: Converting a TFVC repository was the last...
Date: 04/15/2015
Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 4: Converting a TFVC repository
… co-authored with Richard Albrecht, complementing the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging)...
Date: 04/15/2015
Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 3: Reviewing Changes (With Conflicts)
… co-authored with Dan Hellem, complementing the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guide....
Date: 04/12/2015
Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 2: Reviewing Changes (No Conflicts)
… co-authored with Dan Hellem, complementing the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guide....
Date: 04/10/2015
MS Press – Managing Agile Open Source Software using Visual Studio Online
Finally our on-going Visual Studio Online dogfooding adventure and learnings are shared on MS Press...
Date: 04/09/2015
Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 1: Making Changes
… co-authored with Dan Hellem, complementing the Version Control (ex Branching and Merging) Guide....
Date: 04/08/2015
NEWS extension reminded me to get excited about the latest VSO planning features
News is one of the cool Visual Studio productivity extensions, listed on the widgets page. Download...
Date: 03/24/2015
Ranger Flash – February 2015 … T-105,167 downloads to a million!
You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan february updates Extracting...
Date: 03/03/2015
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ricardo Serradas
Who are you? I am an ALM Consultant at BR Soluções Integradas, a Microsoft Partner here in Brazil. I...
Date: 02/27/2015
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Marcelo Hideaki Azuma
Who you are? Marcelo Hideaki Azuma, my grandparents came from Japan to Brazil and I was born in São...
Date: 02/26/2015
What … there is a development centre in Vancouver?!?
After hearing this question one too many times, it is time to zoom into a small, yet buzzing spot on...
Date: 02/24/2015
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Derek Keeler
This post has been retired. Follow Derek here. Who you are? I am Derek Keeler, Senior Software...
Date: 02/24/2015
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Doug Owens
Who you are? I have been a generalist in the application development domain for my entire career....
Date: 02/16/2015
How to raise a “gap” and “solution idea” which will make it onto the Rangers backlog
We have three major goals for the next few months. Continuous simplification based on retrospective...
Date: 02/11/2015
Casual interviews with a number of ALM Rangers … meet the face and person behind the name!
Anisha Pindoria has started an exciting initiative to interview Rangers as and when they get close...
Date: 02/10/2015