The ALM Rangers started the Demonstration factory initiative to raise the overall quality bar of hands-on labs and to create DemoMate based recordings. The team’s key objectives were to improve** accuracy** and consistency in terms of style and delivery of hands-on labs and walkthroughs.

ALM Rangers Demo Factory nuggets

The solutions for the associated guidance and latest hands-on lab manuals can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ee358787.

Online

• Branching and Merging Guide
• Team Foundation Server Planning Guide
• Visual Studio Architecture Guide
• Visual Studio Lab Management Guide

Offline

• Branching and Merging Guide
• Team Foundation Server Planning Guide
• Visual Studio Architecture Guide
• Visual Studio Lab Management Guide   

Other Nuggets

Other online DemoMate nuggets, primarily developed for Brain Keller’s (DPE) Visual Studio Virtual machine (Visual Studio 2012 RTM ALM Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts) include:

• Agile Project Management in Team Foundation Server 2012
• Building the Right Software – Generating Storyboards and Collecting Stakeholder Feedback with Visual Studio 2012
• Diagnosing Issues in Production with IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 2012
• Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012
• Making Developers More Productive with Team Foundation Server 2012
• Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2012 – MSTest, NUnit, xUnit.net, and Code Clone

Enjoy!