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Module 1: Introduction to the Microsoft Solutions Framework

Lessons

• Discusses the characteristics of today's business environment that affect IT.
• Suggests some of the ways in which IT can help businesses meet its goals.
• Explains some of the factors that get in the way of successful IT projects.
• Describes where IT must direct its attention to make its projects more effective.
• Demonstrates how MSF meshes with the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF).

Module 2: Building an MSF Team

This module:

• Discusses some of the typical problems with challenged or failing projects.
• Demonstrates how the basic goals for successful projects contain the remedies for common project failures.
• Explains how the MSF foundational principles guide the functioning of the team.
• Presents the MSF Team Model.
• Discusses role clusters and functional areas.
• Identifies ways to scale up teams.
• Introduces feature teams and function teams.
• Defines project management and its several areas of responsibility.

Lessons

• The MSF Team Model
• MSF Role Clusters
• Scaling Teams for Project Efficiency
• A Scalable Approach to Project Management
• Activity: Communicating in Teams

Module 3: Managing Project Risks

This module explains how the risk management discipline is applied to an MSF project and describes the six steps in the MSF risk management process.

Lessons

• Managing Risks Throughout the Project
• Taking Steps for Effective Risk Management
• Activity: Creating Risk Plans
• Activity: Identifying and Analyzing Risks

Module 4: Establishing Your Project Life Cycle

This module introduces the MSF process model. In addition, it explains how the MSF team model relates to the MSF process model.

Lessons

• MSF Process Model Basics
• Clarifying Responsibilities in Each Phase

Module 5: Starting Your Project

This module focuses on the envisioning phase, the first of the five process model phases.

Lessons

• The MSF Envisioning Phase
• Selecting and Preparing the Project Team
• Defining the Solution
• Scoping the Solution
• Establishing a Basis for Review and Change
• Activity: Drafting a Vision/Scope Document

Module 6: Planning Your Project

This module focuses on the planning phase, the second of the five process model phases.

Lessons

• The MSF Planning Phase
• Planning What to Build
• Planning How to Build
• Planning When Building
• Preparing the Environments
• Activity: Associating Work Items with Plans

Module 7: Developing Your Solution

This module focuses on the developing phase, the third of the five process model phases.

Lessons

• The MSF Developing Phase
• Testing the Solution

Module 8: Stabilizing Your Solution

This module focuses on the stabilizing phase, the fourth of the five process model phases.

Lessons

• The MSF Stabilizing Phase
• Testing and Piloting for Stabilization

Module 9: Deploying Your Solution

This module focuses on the deploying phase, the fifth of the five process model phases. This is the phase where the team executes a plan and gets the solution into production.

Lessons

• The MSF Deploying Phase
• Deploying to a Production Environment
• Completing Your Project