MSF software methodology in small businesses

Software engineering is an area of technology, grounded on providing services with high quality standards, in order to fulfill a client's corporate goals. This is why, focus is made in software life cycle, allowing the software engineer to increase his/her ability to analyze problems according to his/her context. This paper presents the methodology of software development (MSF, Microsoft Solution Framework) as a tool applied to small businesses, along with its effects within an organization. Direct or indirect, and positive or negative impacts in ongoing process improvement and standardization - according to a given need from a manager user or end user-are shown.