You might be wondering if you can expect to come out the other end of our accelerator with a team ready and able to take over day-to-day operations and migrate additional products into this stack using Cloud Pose's modules.
TL;DR: Yes! But there's homework involved.
When you work with Cloud Posse, it's more of a “delivery” model of engagement in the sense we're doing 95% of the work, in your repo, from day one – one pull request at a time. Our strategy of handoff is helping your team pick up the ropes by assisting them with self-prescribed homework assignments. We do not at this time have any formal curriculum for training, since every team has different needs. What we provide is a standard set of documentation, architectural diagrams, and office hours. We will also document any requested processes or systems as general support. Cloud Posse does not provide Staff Augmentation or Training arrangements.
Think of it more like this… while we're engaged and building out your platform, your team has full access to ask us anything. They can follow along in GitHub, review pulls requests, ask for demos, etc. We'll jump on the phone anytime to help triage, pair program, research, or prototype anything else they want. The most successful teams take advantage of this opportunity early on in the engagement. Those are the teams that are ready to migrate additional products.
Case in point: we have a customer that after 3 weeks of working with us took the initiative and used our Datadog component and migrated all their existing legacy Datadog monitors into terraform. The way we found out was they tagged us on the pull request. That's rad. After multiple reviews and comments, the PR got merged and they're well on their way.
When we're done building everything out, we'll stick around for as long as you need our help – but that's optional. Most customers keep us around for some time afterward until their team feels fully confident operating everything. Also, what we frequently see happen is that teams decide to expand the scope and tack on additional services in their catalog (E.g. EMR, RedShift, StrongDM, etc are examples of this)
