MSF Literature

MSF Books

Microsoft Solutions Framework Essentials (Pro-Developer) by Michael S. V. Turner

Get the hands-on guidance you need to understand the proven practices and foundational principles of working with the Microsoft Solutions Framework, Version 4. Written by an expert, this essential reference offers practical examples and case studies.

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MSF White Papers

• MSF v3 Overview
  Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) provides proven practices for planning, building, and deploying a variety of technology solutions, combining aspects of software design and development and building and deploying infrastructure into a single project lifecycle for guiding technology solutions of all kinds. MSF v3 helps organizations achieve a delicate balance of flexibility while meeting commitments; speed while minimizing risk.
• MSF Practitioner Program
  High level information about version 3 of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) and the MSF Practitioner Program

MSF Models and Disciplines

• Process Model
  The MSF Process Model describes a high-level sequence of activities for building and deploying IT solutions. Rather than prescribing a specific series of procedures, it is flexible enough to accommodate a broad range of IT projects.
• Team Model
  The MSF Team Model describes Microsoft's approach to structuring people and their activities to enable project success. The model defines roles, functional areas, responsibilities, and guidance that helps team members reach their unique goals in the project lifecycle.
• Risk model
  Risk Management is a core discipline of the Microsoft Solutions Framework. MSF recognizes that change and the resulting uncertainty are inherent aspects of the IT lifecycle. The MSF Risk Management Discipline advocates a proactive approach to dealing with this uncertainty, evaluates risks continuously, and uses them to influence decision-making throughout the life cycle.
• MSF Project Management Discipline
  MSF has a distributed team approach to project management that improves accountability and allows for a great range of scalability from small projects up to very large, complex projects. This paper describes our distributed approach and explains the role of project management in the MSF team model.
• MSF Readiness Management Discipline
  Readiness Management is a core discipline within MSF. The discipline outlines an approach for management of the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to plan, build and manage successful solutions.

Perspectives from Microsoft

• Can we ship it yet?
  The quality problem in software is different from the quality problem in manufacturing or other forms of engineering. Only in software development is it cost effective to test the design by directly testing the implementation.
• Out of control
  This guide is intended to help senior-level project managers, especially those with limited experience in managing software development projects, recognize the symptoms of a project that is in trouble. The key goal is to identify the problem.
• Shipping the Right Products at the Right Time
  Microsoft is one of the most successful companies in the history of software. It has achieved this success, in part, by developing the capability to ship the right products at the right time. The evolution of this company from a small group of developers to the world's largest software development house resulted from having a clear view of the customer and strong ideas about what the technology could do for users.

Comparisons

• MSF and CMM
  This paper describes two models of best practices and how they relate to each other-Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) and the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Each captures practices that the other does not, but their content overlaps, and MSF provides a very useful set of concepts for organizations that are evolving their capability maturity to meet the intent of the CMM.
• MSF and RUP
  This paper provides an overview and comparison of both MSF and RUP covering Process Model, Team Model and Disciplines

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