When working with new clients, I just love to show Life Cycle Services, and all the new tools and gadgets now available to us. Prices on licenses and Azure services are beginning to come into light, but there is one “unknown” factor. How much would it cost to in time to setup and implement all the tools and services?
I will not
give you the estimates, but I can give you the sequenced task list of what to do
Area |
Sub Area |
Task |
Life Cycle Services |
Installation |
Create LCS site |
Life Cycle Services |
Installation |
Add users to LCS |
Office 365 |
Installation |
Create Office 365 Azure AD |
Office 365 |
Installation |
Create SharePoint site |
Visual Studio Online |
Installation |
Create VSO site |
Visual Studio Online |
Installation |
Add users to VSO |
Customer source |
Installation |
Add users to Customer source |
Azure |
Installation |
Create Azure account |
Azure |
Installation |
Setup administrators to Azure |
Azure |
Installation |
Connect Azure subscription to CSP account |
LCS |
Setup |
Create LCS projects |
LCS |
Setup |
Connect Azure, VSO and SharePoint to LCS |
LCS |
Setup |
Invite project users into LCS |
LCS |
Setup |
Select and setup metology in LCS |
LCS |
Setup |
Infra structure estimation tool in LCS |
LCS |
Setup |
License sizing estimation tool in LCS |
LCS |
Deploy |
Deploy Demo/CRP based on Contoso |
LCS |
Deploy |
Deploy development environments (per developer) |
LCS |
Deploy |
Deploy VSO Build/staging environment (one VM) |
LCS |
Deploy |
Deploy Acceptance test environments (2-3 VM’s) |
LCS |
Deploy |
Deploy Production environments (3-10 VM’s) |
LCS |
Monitor |
Setup LCS System diagnostics |
Visual Studio Online |
Setup |
Setup VSO projects and users rights |
Visual Studio Online |
Setup |
Setup process for nightly builds and automated test |
Visual Studio Online |
Setup |
Define product backlog |
Visual Studio Online |
Setup |
Define sprints |
Office 365 |
Setup |
Setup Microsoft power BI |
LCS |
Setup |
Setup Configuration Manager (data transfer) |
Office 365/LCS |
Setup |
Add ODM templates to be used in the project |
AX 7 |
Setup |
Setup Data Entities for ODATA/Integrations |
AX 7 |
Setup |
Basic parameters and generic setup |
..Ok… the number is 42… but what was the question ?
