Workflow in SharePoint is an exciting new capability. By now, most people have conquered the basics. However, as organizations have increased their usage of SharePoint, they have found that these workflow basics don't meet their needs. What they need is the ability to run thousands or tens of thousands of workflow instances on documents and list items across their farm. What they find is that the out-of-the-box settings and basic workflow development and management operations are not sufficient. This session will explore why focusing on your workflow subsystem is important, and cover the needs of a large scale workflow environment from the farm level down to individual workflow design specifications. Learn why all workflows need to be looked at in light of performance and scalability as well as how to build workflows that scale in an environment that scales, monitor workflow processing and overcome common obstacles. This session assumes a thorough understanding of the basics of SharePoint workflow and how to develop new workflows in Visual Studio. This introductory material will not be covered. The session will be heavy on code and demos. It will assume a familiarity with SharePoint administration, development and an understanding of basic performance/load tuning and testing.