Microsoft® Solutions Framework Essentials

The Microsoft Solution Delivery Lifecycle

Experience has shown that solution delivery challenges are easier to manage if a team segments them into workable pieces, starting with two parts as shown in Figure 6-2. The first part deals with challenges associated with defining and building a solution. The second part deals with challenges associated with keeping it up and running.

Figure 6-2. Decomposition of solution delivery

Rather than providing another limited-scope methodology, Microsoft offers two interrelated frameworks to address these two parts, as depicted in Figure 6-3. Both frameworks use proven practices from Microsoft, its partners, its ...