As a software developer, you know how challenging it is to keep up with the ever-changing technological landscape. You have to learn new frameworks, languages, and tools, while maintaining and improving your existing codebase. You have to balance speed, quality, and innovation, while meeting the expectations and requirements of your clients and stakeholders.
As a business leader, you know how important it is to save money, reduce errors, and implement AI in a safe and effective manner. You want to optimize your development process, streamline your workflows, and deliver value to your customers. You want to empower your developers, enhance their skills, and foster a culture of collaboration and learning.
What if there was a way to achieve all these goals with one simple solution?
Accelerate developer productivity with GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered pair programmer that helps you write better code faster. It is a code completion tool that suggests whole lines or entire functions for you, based on the context of your code and trained on the best practices found in the GitHub community. It is not just a code generator, but a smart assistant that learns from your code and adapts to your style and preferences to help you get the most out of Microsoft Azure.
GitHub Copilot can help with:
- Creating new projects from scratch or adding features to existing ones
- Writing tests, documentation, and comments
- Fixing bugs and refactoring code
- Exploring new frameworks, languages, and APIs
- Learning from the code of other developers
Cognizant’s advisory and implementation service helps customers increase developer productivity using GitHub Copilot for Business. Our advisory and implementation service will recognize high value impact with visible teams in 10 weeks and initiate roll out to the rest of the organization in subsequent weeks.
The service includes onboarding of GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Copilot deployment, baseline developer productivity assessment, and a summarized report of change in developer productivity after deployment. With features like code completions, chat in IDE, security vulnerabilities filter, and code referencing, GitHub Copilot for Business can be a game-changer for organizations.
Working with Cognizant to accelerate developer productivity will streamline your development processes and realize the value of GitHub Copilot across 12-16 weeks:
Week 1-4: Prelim and Onboarding
- Introduction and Initial Assessment - Introduce GitHub Copilot concepts and benefits and assess internal customer application teams best suited for GitHub Copilot integration
- Onboarding GiHub Copilot - Train and empowered teams to use tools effectively
- Baseline Metrics - Collect and record the team metrics, which can include: code quality, development speed, bug resolution rate, and team productivity
Week 5-8: Run
- Monitoring & Support - Monitor use of GitHub Copilot and address issues & concerns
- Data Metrics & Analysis - Collect and record delta metrics after GitHub Copilot integration, analyzing changes against baseline to determine impact
Week 9-10+: Recap & Reset
- Reporting and Activation - Summarize impact and report findings of GitHub Copilot on teams’ performance, with recommendations for future use
- Initiate the roll out to all application development teams
The offer price and engagement duration provided is estimated; the actual pricing and duration for this engagement will be customized based on the scope and requirements determined during the initial consultation.