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Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions
Framework
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Course OverviewCourse Overview
0 Welcome
1 Introduction to MSF
2 Building an MSF Team
3 Managing Project Risks
4 Establishing Your Project Life Cycle
5 Starting Your Project
6 Planning Your Project
7 Developing Your Solution
8 Stabilizing Your Solution
9 Deploying Your Solution
10 Course Summary
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Module OverviewModule Overview
Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions Framework
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Lesson: Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions FrameworkLesson: Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions Framework
After completing this lesson, you will be able to: Describe the origin of MSF List the MSF models and disciplines Define key MSF terminology Describe some of the obstacles to successful projects that
MSF helps IT organizations to overcome Explain the purpose of MSF
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The Business EnvironmentThe Business Environment
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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How IT Can Enable Business to Achieve Its GoalsHow IT Can Enable Business to Achieve Its Goals
Streamline business processes Shorten supply chains
Help people to be more efficient and effective in their work Eliminate burdensome tasks Make information available Enable real-time processing of information
Enable businesses to grow Generate new business models Foster new business opportunities Make new markets accessible
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Success Hasn’t Come EasilySuccess Hasn’t Come Easily
2000
1998
1995
1994
28%23% 49%
26%28% 46%
27%40% 33%
16%31% 53%
This chart depicts the outcome of the 30,000 application projects in large, medium,and small cross-industry U.S. companies tested by The Standish Group since 1994.
Source: The Standish Group International, Extreme Chaos, The Standish Group International, Inc., 2000
SucceededChallengedFailed
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What Are the Obstacles?What Are the 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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How Can IT Overcome the Obstacles?How Can IT Overcome the Obstacles?
By understanding business directions, goals, and opportunities
By ensuring that IT goals support business goals By communicating with the business in an ongoing dialogue By fostering a proactive organizational environment By organizing teams to work efficiently and effectively
IT’s primary need is not for more technology – it is to combine its chief strength –
enormous technological knowledge – with people and processes in ways that serve the organization
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Microsoft Solutions FrameworkMicrosoft Solutions Framework
MSF offers guidance in how to organize people and projects to plan, build, and
deploy successful IT solutions
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The Origin of MSFThe Origin of MSF
Results from project teams and product groups are analyzed Analyzed results are contrasted with industry practices and methods Combined results are then organized and consolidated into “people
and process” guidance
Microsoft Worldwide Products Groups
MicrosoftInformationTechnology
Group
Microsoft Consulting
Services
Microsoft Partners
ProvenPractices
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RiskManagementDiscipline
ProcessModel
TeamModel
ProjectManagementDiscipline
ReadinessManagementDiscipline
MSF Models and DisciplinesMSF Models and Disciplines
Models
Disciplines
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Additional MSF TerminologyAdditional MSF Terminology
Foundational Principles The core principles upon which the framework is based
Key Concepts Ideas that support MSF principles and disciplines
Proven Practices Techniques, methods, or processes that have been demonstrated
to work under real-world conditions
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Where MSF Fits in the IT Life CycleWhere MSF Fits in the IT Life Cycle
Microsoft Operations Framework
Microsoft Solutions Framework
Operate
Dep
loy
Build
Pla
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Module ReviewModule Review
Describe some obstacles that IT encounters in the delivery of its solutions
How does MSF help IT to overcome these obstacles? What are the sources of MSF expertise? Name the two models and three disciplines that MSF uses
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