ALM | DevOps Rangers
Providing practical guidance, experience, and gap-filling solutions to the developer community.
Visualize the health of your builds – latest sneak preview of the Team Project Health extension
Visual cues are essential to monitor our CI/CD pipelines, detect potential issues, and react before...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 03/03/2017
Our January champion is Chris Mason – for energetically pushing the project train into motion
We are pleased to introduce Chris Mason in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the Ranger...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/28/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Wennder dos Santos
Who are you? My name is Wennder, I am a Microsoft MVP and a software developer at Lambda3, but most...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/27/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Kalmin
Who are you? I am an Application Development Manager for Premier Support for Developers at Microsoft...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/27/2017
Effective feature isolation with TFVC – what do you think of the work-in-progress sandbox?
We’re looking for ways to be more transparent with the development of our guidance, give the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/24/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jeffrey Opdam
Who are you? My name is Jeffrey Opdam and I have been working for 13 years with .NET, as a...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/20/2017
Our December 2016 champ is Mattias Sköld for running circles around our extensions
We are pleased to introduce Mattias Sköld in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/17/2017
We’re discussing a common VC question – to fork or not to fork a Git repository
We’ve have been discussing the use of fork on GitHub, to get an understanding of good practices....
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/02/2017
Visualize the health of your builds - a sneak preview of the Team Project Health extension
The Team Project Health extension, created by Wouter de Kort, Jakob Ehn, Utkarsh Shigihalli, and Ed...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 02/01/2017
Offline Test Execution
The Offline Test Execution extension, created by Josh Garverick, Mattias Sköld, and Utkarsh...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/26/2017
Announcing Version 1.0 of SonarQube ARM Template
Controlling technical debt is an important exercise for development teams as they embrace DevOps....
Author: Kevin D Mack Date: 01/26/2017
Announcing Version 1.0 of SonarQube ARM Template
Controlling technical debt is an important exercise for development teams as they embrace DevOps....
Author: Kevin D Mack Date: 01/25/2017
Contributing to the VSTS Developer Tools Build Tasks extension
About a year ago I helped one of my clients transition from Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 to...
Author: Jesse Houwing Date: 01/20/2017
Manage your open source usage and security in your pipeline
The open source approach has a tremendous value for us as a technological community. The...
Author: Shmulik Ahituv Date: 01/17/2017
Importing from JIRA to VSTS
In this post we’ll share our research on how to import your current project information from JIRA to...
Author: João Paulo Gonçalves Rodrigues Date: 01/16/2017
We’d like to hear what you think of our Ranger program
We’d like to hear what you think of our Ranger program and would appreciate if you could take a...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/16/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Chris Boretos
Who are you? I started my career at Microsoft as a SDET for 6 yrs, then for 2yrs a SWE, and now a...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/03/2017
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Nandu Muralidharan
Who are you? My name is Nandu Muralidharan Nair (Nandu for short), and I’ve been working in the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 01/03/2017
Sending Email Notification from VSTS/TFS Build
Visual Studio Team Services provides a number of extensibility options enabling users to enrich...
Author: Hamid Shahid Date: 12/19/2016
Rub on a little DevOps in Portugal - Event Summary
Resumo dos eventos No passado dia 30 de Novembro realizou-se nas instalações da Microsoft em...
Author: Rui Melo Date: 12/16/2016
Testing a Team Services extension and tracking code coverage
Jasmine is a framework that allows you to write tests in JavaScript for AngularJs or NodeJs...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 12/15/2016
Early Overview: Kanban Board Configuration Export Extension
Many teams need to craft a customized version of their Kanban boards in Visual Studio Team Services...
Author: Edward Fry Date: 12/14/2016
DevOps sticker or (temporary) tattoo?
You’ve probably seen Donovan’s definition of DevOps and the associated sticker by now. While...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/07/2016
Sharing our experience of self-organizing teams
The Rangers program was started in 2006 using a rigid process, based on the Microsoft Solutions...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 12/02/2016
VSS Web Extensions SDK Update (version 1.108.0) - Breaking Changes
Symptom If you are building a VSTS (or TFS) web extension, be aware of the breaking changes that...
Author: Igor R. Macedo Date: 11/24/2016
Where are we in Donovan’s [from 0 to DevOps] world?
If you have not watched from 0 to DevOps, by Donovan Brown, or read Applying DevOps to a Software...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/22/2016
Our November 2016 champ is Hosam Kamel for making an impact on numerous (most) projects
We are pleased to introduce Hosam Kamel in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the Ranger...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/21/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rolf Huisman
Who are you? I'm Rolf Huisman, an application lifecycle management (ALM), DevOps, and Continuous...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/18/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Prasanna Ramkumar
Who are you? I’ve been a software professional since 1994 and have worked as a consultant most of my...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/15/2016
Visual Studio ALM Rangers em Portugal / Português
Os Visual Studio ALM Rangers (VSAR) têm estado presentes em Portugal desde 2008, não havendo no...
Author: Rui Melo Date: 11/07/2016
The secret sauce to managing our backlog and TODO lists
We continue with our how has the Ranger community evolved … series, by chatting about our...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 11/04/2016
Our October 2016 champ is Steve St Jean with his ARM template for a Secure SonarQube installation project
We are pleased to introduce Steve St Jean in our series of posts to recognise the champs of the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/31/2016
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For over 10 years we have been providing professional guidance, practical experience and gap-filling...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/22/2016
Why we love being early warning Canaries
We continue with our how has the Ranger community evolved ... series chat. Like many other teams...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/18/2016
Artifacts and guidance for Azure DevTest Labs
We are pleased to announce that the team, spearheaded by Derek Keeler and Josh Garverick, has...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/13/2016
Getting started with DevTest Labs Custom Artifact Development
As a part of a recent Rangers project, our team of experts set out to develop custom artifacts for...
Author: Josh Garverick Date: 10/13/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian A. Randell
Who are you? My name is Brian A. Randell. My online home is brianrandell.com. I’ve been working in...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/12/2016
Easily deploy SonarQube Server in Azure
Technical Debt is a growing problem for many development teams, and as these teams embrace DevOps,...
Author: Kevin D Mack Date: 10/06/2016
Understanding Lead and Cycle Time with our part-time community
Lead Time and Cycle Time are important concepts for teams who want to manage and plan their...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 10/05/2016
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Shmulik Ahituv
Who are you? DevOps engineer for the past 6 years. Currently working as DevOps Team leader at...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/28/2016
Our August 2016 champ is Taavi Kõosaar with his Work Item Visualization extension
We are starting a new series of posts to recognise the champs amongst the Ranger community, using...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 09/26/2016
Application Insights tokenization for Visual Studio Team Services extensions
To apply DevOps to a Software Development Project we implement a continuous integration (CI) /...
Author: mikaelkrief Date: 09/25/2016