For enterprises wishing to have quick jumpstart on using the latest technologies to support their DevOps efforts, this Microsoft offering is an excellent deal:
“The Enterprise DevOps Accelerator is a limited-time offer for teams of 50 developers or more looking to modernize their application development infrastructure while managing costs.
This offer provides unparalleled value—it’s everything your organization needs to implement DevOps practices at more than 50% off. The offer includes:
- The tools your developers want, like Visual Studio Enterprise and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).
- All the build and release pipelines your team needs, hosted by us or by you, plus cloud and mobile testing resources.
- Discounted Azure pricing to run your lab machines or dev workstations in the cloud, and tools to help you manage resources.
- A two-week DevOps services engagement delivered by DevOps experts.
This offer requires the purchase of at least 50 Visual Studio Enterprise subscriptions on an Enterprise Agreement purchasing contract with Microsoft. Please complete the form to receive more information.”
You can see the form you need to fill at the offer site.
At my work we have been doing this: on-boarding teams to a DevOps platform using the tools for the job, but one per week. From my observation that is too fast, given that some of the troubleshooting that adapting existing builds and pipelines to new systems require. Two weeks is better, but even that might not be enough. It is possible however to identify a pilot project that would showcase the new practices into your organization.
This is definitely a Microsoft offering I would have fun delivering.