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I've been doing a lot of developer interviews lately.  Many of the developers are MCSD.NET certified, which includes a mandatory test on the Microsoft Solution Framework.

It suddenly struck me during one of the interviews...does anyone really USE the MSF?  I've used RUP, XP, SCRUM and custom methodologies...but never MSF.  Every developer that I've interviewed is in the same boat...they understand it (because they have to) but have never applied it in the real world.

The reason I ask is because with VS2005, the MSF is rolled into TeamSystem.  There's a standard MSF and an agile MSF approach that you can use.  Is there really much use in it?

Does anyone find value in the MSF?  Even Microsoft is using SCRUM now...so if there's no value, why is it still around, and why isn't there more push back from the industry as a whole to drop it??