Microsoft Solutions Framework Introduction

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Microsoft Solutions FrameworkIntroduction

• Presented by
• Paul Turner
• paul.turner_at_kaz-group.com
• http//spaces.msn.com/members/ptnt

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Overview

• Background
• Success?
• Obstacles
• Activity
• Debrief
• MSF Team Model
• Conflict of Interest
• Further Reading

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Background

• Accelerating rates of change in business and
  technology
• Shorter product cycles
• Increasingly diverse and complex products and
  services
• Evolving business models
• Rapidly changing requirements regulations,
  legislation, growing consumer demands
• Rising competitive pressures
• Globalization

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Success?
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Obstacles?

• Separation of goal and function
• Separation of business and technology
• Lack of common language and process
• Unclear goals
• Unmanaged scope changes
• Failure to communicate and act as a team
• Processes that are inflexible to change

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Microsoft Solutions Framework
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Activity

• You will work in project teams.
• You have only 15 minutes in which to complete the
  project.
• I will assign you a role (either A, B, C, D, E or
  messenger).
• Do not read your role card until asked.
• You can communicate only on Post-It notes
  delivered through the messenger.
• You must address messages correctly or they will
  not be delivered properly.
• No Spell Check
• No Forwarding

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Debrief

• Personalities
• Assumptions
• Did you get the answer?
• Why/Why not?
• Who do you think is A?
• Who will get fired?

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Team Model
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Conflict of Interest?
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Further reading

• Dynamics of Software Development (MS Press)
• Code Complete (MS Press)
• Rapid Development (MS Press)
• http//www.microsoft.com/msf
• Analysing and Defining Microsoft .NET Solutions
  Architecture (Course 2719, Exam 70-300)
• Microsoft Solutions Framework Essentials (Course
  1846, Exam 70-301)