- Ch 1
The Developer Licensing Stack — All six Microsoft developer product families with EA pricing, discount ranges, and the full cost comparison table for 50–500 developer organisations.
- Ch 2
Visual Studio Subscription Optimisation — The $4,800/year VS Enterprise vs Professional gap. Assignment audit methodology with the three diagnostic questions. MSDN Azure credit consumption programme design.
- Ch 3
GitHub Enterprise vs Azure DevOps — Full capability comparison across 9 dimensions. The GitHub/Azure DevOps hybrid model architecture. How VS Enterprise's GitHub entitlement eliminates duplicate billing ($231/user/year).
- Ch 4
GitHub Copilot Business vs Enterprise — The $240/developer/year tier decision. Feature-by-feature Enterprise-only analysis. 90-day pilot design for evidence-based tier selection. Cost model for 100, 200, and 500 developer populations.
- Ch 5
CI/CD Cost Optimisation — Azure Pipelines parallel job pricing, self-hosted runner break-even analysis, GitHub Actions minutes management, GitHub Advanced Security active committer billing tactics.
- Ch 6
EA Negotiation Strategy — Competitive alternatives and how to use them. The unbundle-rationalise-negotiate approach. EA discount ranges by product. Developer licensing in M&A scenarios.
$480K
Typical 200-developer annual developer licensing spend (before optimisation)
28%
Average developer licensing saving from independent optimisation
58%
Organisations with VS Enterprise + GitHub Enterprise duplicate billing
$231
Per-developer/year duplicate GitHub Enterprise cost where VS Enterprise is assigned