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This important white paper recently showed up on our downloads site:

SharePoint Products and Technologies White Paper: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Solutions: This document outlines a methodology for team SharePoint development combining custom code and content, with the aim of accelerating implementation and mitigating production risks.

Note to readers; this represents just one methodology. Do you have a good one to share? Here's what's in the document:

Chapter I - Document Goals 5
Chapter II - Implementation Scenarios 7
Chapter III - Implementation Environments 8
Chapter IV - Implementation Activities 19
Chapter V - Deployment Methods 21
The SOLUTION Framework 21
Content Deployment/Migration API 23
Chapter VI - Tools for the Job 28
Chapter VII - Implementation Project Plan and Team 30
Chapter VIII - Implementation Worksheet 31
Chapter IX - Hotfixes 33
Chapter X - Testing 34
Chapter XI - Summary 36
Chapter XII - Glossary 37
Chapter XIII - References 39
Virtualization 39
SDKs and Centers 39
Dev Tools 40
Packaging Tools 41
SOLUTION Framework 42
Bin or Global Assembly Cache 42
Features 43
Authoring and customization 43
Content Deployment / Migration 43
Team Development 45
Testing, Source Control and MSF 46
Patterns and Practices 47
Chapter XIV - Credits and Thanks To 49