The MSF Team Model and Product Management
Product management practices explained by the MSF Team Model
Introduction
The Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) is a “deliberate and disciplined approach” to delivering technology products. It comprises several models and concepts.
This review focuses on the MSF Team Model and leverages it to explain general product management practices and principles of the Blackblot PMTK® Methodology.
Micro-Soft in the Begining
Micro-Soft (later Microsoft) was founded in 1975 by Paul Allen and Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and relocated to Bellevue, Washington, in 1979.
Early on, Microsoft sold BASIC programming language interpreters for the Altair 8800 personal computer.
Above is the iconic photo from 1978 of the first eleven employees at Microsoft.
This photo includes Microsoft founders Bill Gates (bottom left) and Paul Allen (bottom right).
In 1981, Microsoft licensed a clone of the CP/M operating system, which it named MS‑DOS, to IBM for…
