Software Assurance Planning Services
About Developer Tools Deployment Planning Services

Developer Tools Deployment Planning Services is a Software Assurance benefit designed to help organizations plan effective Visual Studio deployments.  DTDPS helps lower the perceived risk and cost of deployment for customers and opens the door to new business for partners.

 

 

 

Providing Developer Tools Deployment Planning Services, can help you:

 

  • Reduce your customer acquisition cost 
    Microsoft will pay you for conducting the planning service and provide engagement materials, templates and training resources.

  • Develop new business opportunities  
    DTDPS engagements get you in front of new customers and often lead to additional billable work. 

  • Deliver more value to your customers  
    Help make the decision to deploy easier for customers by providing a risk-free assessment and plan.

 

 

 

Three DTDPS offerings:

  

Team Foundation Server Deployment Assessment

Develop a deployment plan to help customers get up and running on Team Foundation Server 2010.  As part of this five-day engagement, you’ll perform a targeted assessment of the customer’s Application Lifecycle management maturity.  The final deliverable includes a deployment plan that shows customers how they can improve team collaboration and development processes with Team Foundation Server 2010.

 

Visual SourceSafe Migration Assessment
Help your customer understand what it will take to migrate from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server 2010. During this three-day engagement, you’ll conduct a targeted assessment of the customer’s Application Lifecycle Management maturity, perform a proof of concept sample migration and develop a detailed migration plan to help ensure customers feel comfortable taking the leap to a modern platform. 

 

Visual Studio Quality Tools Deployment Assessment 

Build a plan for your customers to adopt a modern quality assurance and testing platform. This five-day engagement results in a plan that includes recommendations for deploying Test Professional 2010 and related testing infrastructure that will help improve current testing processes and accelerate your customer’s time-to-market.  

  

 
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What are the requirements for providing DTDPS?

In order to be approved as a Developer Tools Deployment Planning Services provider, your organization must attain the Gold ALM Competency and register for DTDPS. 

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