patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance is now available.

Abstract 
patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. The guidance contains a reference implementation (RI) that demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and lifecycle management challenges. This guidance discusses the following:

• Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging.
• Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter.
• Implementation examples demonstrated in the RI and in the QuickStarts.
• How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.
• Set up of development, build, test, staging, and production environments.
• Managing the application life cycle including upgrade.
• Team-based intranet application development.

Out of Scope

• Content-oriented sites that use Web content management.
• Internet and enterprise-scale SharePoint applications.
• Multilingual SharePoint applications.
• Scale or security testing of SharePoint applications.

Key Links

• Blaine Wastell’s Blog Post
• SharePoint Guidance Home Page (MSDN)
• Download (MSDN)
• SharePoint Guidance Project Site (CodePlex)
• Community Forum (CodePlex)