The last couple of days finding out about the future of Silverlight have been great and I'm really pleased that we're at the forefront of this technology and the next couple of years should be exciting.

Most of the information I'm not allowed to share but there is one bit I can because we produced it, I've been meaning to blog about it for a while. Its about how you can structure the designer - developer workflow for increased business benefit.

We've delivered quite a number of Silverlight projects including some pretty large ones with tight deadlines and hard stops. This has meant that we've continually refined our processes to make sure we deliver these projects in the most efficient and reliable way possible.

What we've found is that by using Silverlight and the rest of the Microsoft product set we've been able to reduce the overall amount of time that it takes us to deliver projects.

The image above shows how this is possible but there are other bits which we've also implemented. One which is really effective is sitting the designer and developer who are working on things physically next to each other, not opposite but next to so that they can see each others screens and really collaborate.

We've found delivering Silverlight projects in this way so much more effective that we're beginning to build other projects in this way too and will continue to iterate on it going forward.