--- title: "Agile MSF methodology framework" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/28/agile-msf-methodology-framework.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/28/agile-msf-methodology-framework.html" published: "2004-08-28T09:09:00" updated: "2004-08-28T09:09:00" tags: ["Agile Related"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Looks very veeery interesting: \"Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Agile is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process for building and improving .NET and other object-oriented applications.…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Agile MSF methodology framework By Roy Osherove August 28, 2004 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) **Historical article** · Originally published August 28, 2004; technical details may be outdated. [Looks very veeery interesting:](http://blogs.msdn.com/keithrowe/archive/2004/08/26/221322.aspx) "Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Agile is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process for building and improving .NET and other object-oriented applications. MSF Agile directly incorporates practices for handling quality of service requirements such as performance and security. It is also context-based and uses a context-driven approach to determine how to operate the project. This approach helps create an adaptive process that overcomes the boundary conditions (such as project size and system criticality) of most agile software development processes while achieving the objectives set out in the vision of the project. MSF Agile is highly customizable, scalable, and will be fully integrated with Visual Studio 2005 Team System. The tooling and processes will work together to provide a more productive user experience than the process or tooling could provide alone. This is because both tooling and processes are built using the same meta-model. In other words, MSF harvests proven guidance from inside and outside of Microsoft and provides a seamless experience with Visual Studio 2005 Team System for process automation and guidance within the software development life cycle. And now (ta-da!) you can go get the zip file and look at what we have so far yourself.  Go to [http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/directory.aspx](http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/directory.aspx) and search for "msf".  The "MSF V4 Beta" workspace will appear.  We need to ask you to sign in. Once you're registered in the workspace, the file is there for you to have a look at. It's a zip file containing a collection of web pages.  Unzip into a convenient directory and start browsing around.  It's not quite complete yet and there will definitely be more changes as we go.  " ## More in Agile Related [All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) - Sep 9, 2004 ### [How Test Driven Development proved itself in a big way!](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/9/how-test-driven-development-proved-itself-in-a-big-way.html) - Sep 3, 2004 ### [Testing GUIs and customer tests using FIT](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/3/testing-guis-and-customer-tests-using-fit.html) - Aug 8, 2004 ### [Advanced TDD workshop today](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/8/advanced-tdd-workshop-today.html) - Aug 5, 2004 ### [Testing web services locally - faster](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/5/testing-web-services-locally-faster.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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