We employ the Microsoft Solutions Framework as our project methodology. MSF is a suite of models, principles, and guides for building and deploying enterprise systems. This allows us to help our clients align their business and technology objectives, reduce the life cycle of implementing new technology and successfully deploy technologies to streamline business processes. This process exposes critical risks, important planning assumptions, and key interdependencies that are required to successfully plan, build and manage a technology infrastructure. It addresses the following issues at each phase of the IT life cycle:

• Planning. How do you set strategic goals, knowing that the goal posts will have moved by the time you get there? How do you manage risk enough to embrace change and create opportunities for competitive advantage?
• Building. How do you create self-managed teams that can reach their own milestones and deliver a high-quality, user-focused product? How do you improve that product over time to keep it aligned with the business needs?
• Managing. How do you measure and improve the return on your computing investment? (Understanding and managing the thru cost drivers is essential.)