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major checkpoints
     Build Track
     Deploy Track
     Envision Track
     Governance Model
     Governance Track
     Plan Track
     Stabilize Track
managing risks
     accountability
     across portfolio of projects
     adapting to change
     agility
    analyzing risks [See analyzing and prioritizing risks]
     constraints
     continuous assessment
    controlling risks [See controlling risks]
     creating risk management culture
     empowering team members
     foundational principles overview
    identifying risks [See identifying risks]
     incremental value
     inherent nature of risk
     integrating in project life cycles
     investing in quality
     learning from experiences
    learning from risks [See learning from risks]
     number of risks
     open communications 2nd
     overview
     partnering with customers
    planning [See planning and scheduling risks]
    prioritizing risks [See prioritizing and analyzing risks]
     proactive risk management
    reporting risk status [See reporting and tracking risk status]
     risk identification
     risk management discipline
     risk management planning
    Risk Management Process [See Risk Management Process]
    scheduling risks [See scheduling and planning risks]
     shared responsibility
     shared vision
     specifying and managing risks
     throughout projects
    tracking risk status [See tracking and reporting risk status]
Marketing/Corporate Communications functional area
master project plans
     Benefit Analysis Plan
     Budget Plan 2nd
     Capacity Plan 2nd
     Change Enablement Plan 2nd
     Change Management Plan 2nd
     Communications Plan
     Configuration Management Plan 2nd
     Deployment Management Plan 2nd
     Disaster Recovery Plan 2nd
     Integrated Master Schedule
     Integration Management Plan 2nd
     Knowledge Management Plan 2nd
     organizational plan
     overview
     Performance Management Plan
     Pilot Plan 2nd
     procurement plan
     Purchasing and Facilities Plan 2nd
     Quality Management Plan
     Readiness Plan 2nd
     Risk and Issue Management Plan 2nd
     Roles and Responsibilities document
     Security Plan 2nd
     Staffing Plan 2nd
     Test Plan 2nd
     Training Plan 2nd
master project schedule
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
mindsets
     business value
     delivering on commitments
     good citizenship
     learning continuously
     overview 2nd 3rd
     pride in workmanship
     qualities of service (QoS)
     solution perspective
     team of peers
models
    Governance Model [See Governance Model]
     overview
     Process Model
    Team Model [See Team Model]
MOF (Microsoft Operations Framework)
Moore's Technology Adoption Life Cycle
motivated teams
MSF Build Track
     checkpoints overview
     closing issues
     coverage testing
     executing project plans
     goals
     interim checkpoints
     issue tracking and remediation overview
     issue-tracking process
     major checkpoints
     overview
     prioritizing and assigning issues
     reporting issues
     resolving issues
     retiring issues
     scope complete
     solution issues vs. project issues
     success criteria
     team focus
     testing overview
     types of tests
MSF Deploy Track
     checkpoints overview
     core solution components deployed
     deployment completed
     deployment mechanisms
     deployment resources
     deployment stabilized
     goals
     installation approach
     interim checkpoints
     key deliverables
     major checkpoints
     overview
     performing deployments
     period between deployment stabilized and completed
     preparing for deployments
     production environment overview
     quiet period
     site deployments completed
     stabilizing deployments
     success criteria
     team focus
     training during deployments
     transitioning to operations and support
MSF Envision Track
     assessing risk
     checkpoints overview
     core team organized
    defining solutions [See defining solutions]
     goals
     identifying stakeholders
     interim checkpoints
     key deliverables
     major checkpoints
     managing project trade-offs
     overview
    preparing project teams [See preparing and selecting project teams]
     prioritizing stakeholders
     project trade-off matrix
     project trade-off triangle
     review and change overview
    selecting project teams [See selecting and preparing project teams]
     solution scope overview
     stakeholders overview
     success criteria
     team focus
     traceability
     understanding key stakeholders
     vision and scope approval
     vision and scope baselined
     vision/scope document
MSF foundational principles
     accountability
     adapting to change
     agility
     causes of project failure
     empowering team members
     incremental value
     investing in quality
     learning from experiences
     open communications
     overview 2nd 3rd
     partnering with customers
    readiness [See foundational principles for readiness]
    risk management [See foundational principles for risk management]
     shared responsibility
     shared vision
    solution delivery life cycles [See foundational principles for solution delivery life cycles]
    team building [See foundational principles for team building]
MSF Governance Model [See also MSF Governance Track]
     baseline early, freeze late
     change control
     check-in
     checkpoint reviews
     checkpoints overview
     configuration management
     creating incremental release strategy
     creating living documents
     cycling through iterations rapidly
     daily builds
     delivering core functionality first
     enactment tracks
     Governance Track
     interim checkpoints
     iteration
     iterative approach fundamentals
     iterative approach overview
     major checkpoints
     overview 2nd
     prioritizing using risk-driven scheduling
     readiness
     swim lanes
     tracks overview
     versioned releases overview
     work streams
MSF Governance Track [See also MSF Governance Model]
     administratively closing projects
     checkpoints overview
     closing down projects overview
     customer acceptance
     customer satisfaction surveys
     defining project charters
     deliverable acceptance procedure
     goals
     improving processes and procedures
     interim checkpoints
     key deliverables
     kickoff logistics
     major checkpoints
     ongoing solution delivery guidance
     operations acceptance
     overview 2nd 3rd
     project closeout reports
     project completion overview
     project kickoffs overview
     project reviews
     ramping down teams
     success criteria
     team focus
     tracking and reporting status
     user acceptance
MSF Plan Track
     checkpoints overview
     development environment
     functional specifications
     goals
    how to build [See how to build]
     interim checkpoints
     key deliverables
     major checkpoints
     master project plan
     master project schedule
     overview
     preparing supporting environments
     project plans approval
     research environment
     staging environment
     success criteria
     supporting environments checkpoint
     team focus
     technology validation
     test environment
     training environment
    what to build [See what to build]
    when to build [See when to build]
MSF Process Model
MSF Readiness Management Discipline [See also MSF Readiness Management Process]
     accountability
     adapting to change
     agility
     empowering team members
     foundational principles overview
     fundamentals overview
     Governance Model
     incremental value
     individual knowledge and experience
     investing in quality
     learning from experiences
     managing readiness continuously
     measuring skills and goals
     open communications
     overview
     partnering with customers
     readiness gaps as risks
     readiness planning
     shared responsibility
     shared vision
     Team Model
MSF Readiness Management Process [See also MSF Readiness Management Discipline]
     adding assessments to project schedules
     assessing readiness
     changing readiness
     defining readiness
     evaluating readiness
     overview
     step 1
     step 2
     step 3
     step 4
MSF Risk Management Process
     analyzing and prioritizing risks
     controlling risks
     identifying risks
     learning from risks
     overview
     planning and scheduling risks
     step 1
     step 2
     step 3
     step 4
     step 5
     step 6
     tracking and reporting risk status
MSF Stabilize Track
     1st through nth functional testing
     assessment overview
     capacity testing
     checkpoints overview
     concluding pilot testing
     conducting pilot testing
     defining done
     deployment testing
     disaster recovery testing
     functional testing
     getting done
     goals
     integration testing
     interim checkpoints
     issue convergence
     issue log cleared
     key deliverables
     major checkpoints
     overview
     performance testing
     pilot completed
     pilot testing focus
     pilot testing goals
     pilot testing overview
     predicting done
     preparing for pilot testing
     preproduction testing
     regression testing
     release candidate 1 through n
     release readiness approved
     release testing
     success criteria
     system testing
     system testing overview
     team focus
     usability testing
     user acceptance testing
     user interfaces stabilized
MSF Team Model
     advocacy groups overview
    Architecture Advocacy Group [See Architecture Advocacy Group]
     constituents
     defining solutions with roles
    Development Advocacy Group [See Development Advocacy Group]
    foundational principles [See foundational principles]
     functional areas
     fundamentals overview
     organization charts
     overview 2nd
    Product Management Advocacy Group [See Product Management Advocacy Group]
    Program Management Advocacy Group [See Program Management Advocacy Group]
     project management discipline
    quality goals [See quality goals]
     readiness
    Release/Operations Advocacy Group [See Release/Operations Advocacy Group]
     roles for advocacy groups
     roles for functional areas
     size of teams
    team of advocates [See team of advocates]
     team of ambassadors
    team of quality champions [See team of quality champions]
     team of representatives
    Test Advocacy Group [See Test Advocacy Group]
    User Experience Advocacy Group [See User Experience Advocacy Group]
MSF v4 vs. MSF v3
     changed features
     enhancements
     framework
     history
     key elements
     new features
multidisciplinary teams