Solutions Development Discipline - Part 1

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

Description

This course is the first part of a three part series for IT Professionals. This series will discuss Microsoft's philosophy on team organization, introduces a milestone-driven process model to manage the risks inherent in a dynamic environment, and provides an architectural framework for MultiThreaded development that emphasizes reusability and distribution.

Audience

This course series is designed for IT Professionals. This series will discuss Microsoft's philosophy on team organization, introduces a milestone-driven process model to manage the risks inherent in a dynamic environment, and provides an architectural framework for MultiThreaded development that emphasizes reusability and distribution.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Identify the opportunities for the IT industry in the current business climate and the reasons for the success or failure of an IT project.
• Identify the purpose and components of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) and the components of the Solutions Development Discipline (SDD).
• Identify the features, purpose and implementation of Team, Process and Application models.
• Define risk, articulate the components of risk statement and identify the risk management process.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)

• Identify the characteristics of the current business scenario.
• Identify the opportunities that IT organizations can exploit to offer value in the current business scenario.
• Identify the root causes of the failure of a project.
• Identify the guidelines of a framework for successful IT projects.
• Identify the purpose of Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF).
• Match elements of the MSF life cycle with their characteristics.
• Identify the models of MSF.
• Identify the components of Solutions Development Discipline (SDD).

Unit 2: SDD Models

• Identify the characteristics of Team of Peers concept.
• Match the MSF team roles with their responsibilities.
• Match MSF team roles with their skills.
• Match the MSF team roles with their goals.
• Identify the tasks in the Microsoft development process.
• Identify the tasks to be performed at the four externally visible milestones.
• Identify the points to be included in the tracking system of the versioned release process.
• Identify the benefits of versioned releases.
• Identify the benefits of the Application Model.
• Identify the purpose of different services of the Application Model design.
• Identify the roles of the three services of the Application Model.
• Define a solution for a given situation by employing the Application Model.

Unit 3: Risk Management

• Identify the attributes of risks and the classification of risk impact.
• Identify the attributes of risks.
• Identify the classes of Risk Impact in a given situation.
• Identify the principles to be used for providing a framework for Risk Management.
• Identify the strategies involved in a Risk Management approach.
• Identify the sequence of the steps involved in the Proactive Risk Management process.
• Identify the components of a Risk Factor Chart.
• Complete the Risk Statement for a given situation.
• Calculate Risk Exposure when Risk Probability and Risk Impact is given.
• Identify the contents of a Risk Statement Form.
• Identify the strategies that can be used to manage risks.
• Identify the triggers that can be used for the Risk Contingency Strategy.
• Identify the contents of a Risk Action Form.
• Identify the Risk Management action that will be implemented during risk status reporting in a given situation.
• Identify the steps involved in the Risk Control process.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and XXMB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

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