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Get the definitive guide to learning the foundational principles, mindsets, and best practices of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), Version 4. Written by a solutions delivery expert, this hands-on guide offers practical examples and case studies to help you apply this adaptable, scalable framework to any project and effectively implement business-driven technology solutions.
Discover how to:
- Establish an adaptable and flexible solution delivery life cycle
- Incrementally define, design, build, stabilize and deploy solutions that address business needs
- Implement a dynamic team model that promotes team agility
- Manage solution delivery readiness at the individual, project team, and organizational level
- Proactively minimize project risks
- Meet release criteria and validate stakeholder expectations and user needs
- Use governance activities and checkpoints at each stage of your project
About the Author
Michael S. V. Turner, DSc, PMP, has more than 18 years of engineering experience and is a senior manager with Microsoft Services headquarters where he helps develop tools, processes, and methodologies for solutions delivery. In addition, Mike is the founder of North Star Analytics, a company that builds artificial intelligence-based software based on his doctoral research.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Many good ideas on the SDLC
26 May 2007
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This book explores version 4 of Microsoft's Solutions Framework, the high-level guidelines Microsoft follows for their software development lifecycle. MSF, and hence this book, is rather abstract. Therefore, it won't tell you step by step what you should do. But hopefully you are aware that there is no such thing as perfect SDLC process- each situation demands finding the best solution for the specific context involved.
This book has some great points - from the foundational principles such as "foster open communications" and "partner with customers" to the way project "phases" are renamed "tracks" to emphasize their overlap. And therein lies the strength of this book - it forces the reader to consider just about everything that should be considered from inception through delivery of a software project.
In terms of drawbacks, the biggest one is that the book focuses virtually exclusively on huge teams in huge projects. The paragraph or two talking about combining advocacies is entirely insufficient. Even when one person handles most of a project, all the aspects need to be considered and covered. One drawback the book avoided was focusing on Microsoft and/or Microsoft technologies. Aside from a couple of minor plugs for specific product, this book is technology and product agnostic.
Overall, this book is well-written and useful.
This book has some great points - from the foundational principles such as "foster open communications" and "partner with customers" to the way project "phases" are renamed "tracks" to emphasize their overlap. And therein lies the strength of this book - it forces the reader to consider just about everything that should be considered from inception through delivery of a software project.
In terms of drawbacks, the biggest one is that the book focuses virtually exclusively on huge teams in huge projects. The paragraph or two talking about combining advocacies is entirely insufficient. Even when one person handles most of a project, all the aspects need to be considered and covered. One drawback the book avoided was focusing on Microsoft and/or Microsoft technologies. Aside from a couple of minor plugs for specific product, this book is technology and product agnostic.
Overall, this book is well-written and useful.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Nice Microsoft Publication
20 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback
This is one of the best books I've ever read of Microsoft Solutions Frameworks, it explains with real user cases in order to apply them to real life, It's a nice guiadance to begin using this methodology.
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18 Aug 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I purchased this book to help me on my job. It was in good condition and served its purpose.
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