Software Factories is a methodology developed at Microsoft. In a nutshell, a Software Factory is a development environment configured to support the rapid development of a specific type of application. While Software Factories are really just the logical next step in the continuing evolution of software development methods and practices, they promise to change the character of the software industry by introducing patterns of industrialization.

This is something that I will be actively looking at over the comming months and will be posting my finding and comments on this blog.

To get started have a look at:

Industrialised Software Development
Software Factories @ Microsoft