Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) is a practical, flexible, and proven approach to delivering solutions. It has been successfully applied to a range of project types with varying complexities and within an assortment of environments. Refined and evolved over a dozen years, MSF provides guidance in not only how to define, design, build, stabilize, and deploy a solution, but also how to organize, ready, and govern the team to handle the dynamic nature of solutions delivery.  

MSF is structured as an adaptable and scalable framework upon which specialized and prescriptive methodologies can be built. It includes a set of natural checks and balances that work to maximize quality and agility without adding undue governance. That way, MSF can be a basis for both an agile as well as a formal approach to solutions delivery. By providing a solid and comprehensive foundation, organizations can create their own methodology that is tailored to their needs or select a range of pre-packaged MSF-based approaches such as MSF for Agile Software Development.