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Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions Framework Module 1

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Page 1: Introduction to MSF

Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions

Framework

Module 1

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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

Module

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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

n

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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