About the Technical Reviewers

Jakob Ehn is a current Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and also a Visual Studio ALM Ranger. Jakob has 15 years of experience in the IT industry, and currently works as a solution architect at Inmeta Crayon ASA, specializing in Visual Studio ALM. He actively participates in the MSDN forums, and contributes to different open source projects, such as the Community TFS Build Extensions and the Community TFS Build Manager.

Todd Meister has been working in the IT industry for over 15 years. He’s been a Technical Editor on over 75 titles, ranging from SQL Server to the .NET Framework. Besides technical editing titles, he is the Senior IT Architect at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He lives in central Indiana with his wife, Kimberly, and their five skilled children.

Gregg Boer is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with 25 years of experience in software. Over his career, Gregg has worked as a Project Manager, Program Manager, Requirements Lead, Software Engineer, Analyst, QA Lead, and Software Designer. Most of his experience is focused on leading small to medium software development teams (10–15 people). Over the years Gregg believes he has made many mistakes, learned many lessons, and worked with many smart people to develop great software. He loves the software industry, and considers himself a lucky man to have been a part of it for so long.

Gregg joined Microsoft in 2005 because he believed in the vision of Team Foundation Server. He truly believes that the right set of collaborative tools could help make the lives of software engineers better. Most recently at Microsoft, Gregg is working on the team developing a set of world-class Agile Tools built on top of the TFS Platform.

Anutthara Bharadwaj is Group Program Manager in the Visual Studio ALM group at Microsoft Corporation. Anu has enjoyed building and breaking software in the various roles she has worked in through her nine-year Microsoft stint, shipping multiple versions of Visual Studio ALM. Anu has worked on some cool tools with Exploratory Testing as a central theme and has three patents from her research work in this area. Anu is passionate about software development and testing and has spoken at conferences worldwide. She blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara and tweets at http://twitter.com/anutthara.