Below statement is off course not suitable for all companies and how they work, but in my company we separate developing and operation and this is the background why I wrote this article.

To gain more quality in delivery to customers, I think the BizTalk operation team should have a Software Development Kit (SDK) so the developers that create code and deliver application package and bindings to BizTalk operation must understand the infrastructure part of the delivery, often i see that developers focus is to handle functions but forget that it should run in a complex infrastructure.

When you work with BizTalk Operation you have to take care of what code and configurations you get from developers, then it is a god idea to have some kind of checklist, I searched google and I found this checklist http://seroter.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/my-biztalk-code-review-checklist/ by Richard Seroters, if you take this and then adjust it to your environment then you have a good start for a good checklist. I am going to make a more broader general checklist for BizTalk in the future and make it public.