Striving for MOSS ROI

Lately I have been working on a SharePoint workflow project and have been finding some good opportunities for optimizing the time-to-market and return-on-investment of SharePoint workflows. For anyone who has worked with this technology extensively, it can be difficult to transition between workflow form types such as task forms and modification forms. One goal I will be taking up in the next few days will be to build a small framework for reducing the cost involved to switch between these types of workflow form types. The primary challenge I have found is that the way that saving data to a list versus saving data in serialized form to a database is remarkably different. So to accomplish the challenge, the question would be whether to build a more loosely-coupled or tightly-coupled implementation. I will provide more details on my approach to solve this development challenge this week.