Mariano Szklanny’s Blog

MSFWinBuild, the tool that compiles Process Guidance for Team System is finally available for download!

This tool is the one used by Microsoft to create MSF Agile and MSF for CMMI process guidances, it generates nice HTML files from XML sources that describe the guidance content.

Go get it from the GotDotNet workspace!

Important:

• There are no releases yet, you have to download the source code (go to “Source Control” section) and build it.
• Don’t miss these forum threads from Randy Miller:
  Building MSFWinBuild
  Using MSFWinBuild
  Compiling MSF
  MSF for Agile Software Development source live

While using MSF for Agile Development for a current project, I realized that something important is missing in the methodology guidance: architecture documents.

In the process guidance, I found a lot of information about architecture diagrams like Application Diagram, Logical
Datacenter Diagram, and others. But I couldn’t find information related to architecture documents which complement them, like:

• database design,
• some project-specific documents such as XML configuration files structure,
• etc.

   
I thought that writting this kind of documents would be included as an
activity within the “Create Solution Architecture” workstream, but there is not such an activity.

    Fortunately, architecture documents will be added to the methodology in a near future. You can have a look at the Randy Miller(MSF Agile leader)’s answer about this topic in the Microsoft Solutions Frameworks official forum.