Choose the MSF for Agile Software Development process for projects with short lifecycles and delivery-oriented teams who can work without lots of intermediate documentation. MSF for Agile Software Development is an iterative, scenario-driven development process for building .NET, Web, Web Service, and other object-oriented applications. It directly incorporates practices for handling quality of service requirements such as performance and security, utilizes a context-driven approach (context-based) to determine how to operate the project, explicitly calls out project risk as a success criteria for the optimal delivery of software, and incorporates all of the traditional software development roles such as the business analyst, project manager, architect, developer, tester, and release manager.

This MSF process is a flexible guidance framework that helps create an adaptive system for software development. This agile methodology anticipates the need to adapt to change, and focuses on people as the most important component to the success of a project. It also emphasizes the delivery of working software and promotes customer validation as key success measures.