SharePoint Guidance

The patterns and practices team from Microsoft released recently a new compilation of architectural guidance. This time it is for SharePoint :), and can be downloaded from this url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203468.aspx

The guidance addresses several important important subjects like:

• Feature factoring and packaging - best practices and patterns for deciding on how to consolidate functionality into SharePoint features and packages;
• How to compromise in SharePoint :)) - which are the most common tradeoffs we face when making design decisions (for example: SharePoint list vs. database ... I bet you know this one)
• Managing environments for SharePoint projects (dev, build, test, staging, production environments)
• Managing development lifecycle (dev, test, deploy, upgrade)

There are many more interesting topics covered in this guidance, so I strongly encourage you to read it.