DevOps Excellence Roundtable Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 5 February 2022 Categories In DevOps, Webinar Building better, more reliable apps faster is one of the key reasons why DevOps exists. In this roundtable, moderated by Vernon Keenan, Senior Industry Analyst at SalesforceDevops.net and a distinguished panel of DevOps experts, we learn what it takes to reach the gold standard of DevOps excellence. The panelists were: Ian Gotts, CEO at Elements.cloud Andrew […]
From DATA to IMPACT to INSIGHTS to INTELLIGENCE Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 20 January 2022 Categories In Business Analysis, Change Intelligence, Impact Analysis UNDERSTANDING WHAT USERS NEED Our R&D team has rebuilt the Dependency Tree and underlying data management based on customer experience. That has meant taking 2 steps back to take 3 leaps forward. It takes time and investment. But we know that getting the architecture right is the first step to reducing technical debt and accelerating […]
Award: 20 companies escalating innovation in 2021 Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 23 December 2021 Categories In Article Global Business Leaders awards Elements as 20 companies escalating innovation in 2021 Elements.cloud: the change intelligence platform that helps organizations innovate at the speed of business. COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation. In the early days rapid innovation was applauded and allowances were made if the delivery was patchy. Now companies who have mastered change can out-innovate their […]
It all starts with Org Discovery Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 19 November 2021 Categories In Business Analysis, Change Intelligence, Documentation, Impact Analysis It all starts with Org Discovery. You walk into a company and there is little or no overall understanding of the configuration of Salesforce. You have no idea of the scale or complexity of the org. Where the org is hitting limits. Where the technical debt is highest. What changes will have the highest risk. […]
The process for creating the film Red Notice Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 13 November 2021 Categories In Business Analysis, Process Mapping Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson star in Red Notice which was released on Friday on Netflix. It is excellent. But as many of you know Ryan is a bit of a process nerd. His Aviation Gin process mapping workshop video is epic So he’s shared the approach for making the movie […]
Will the real Shift-Left please stand up??? Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 9 November 2021 Categories In Business Analysis Too often we hear words defined loosely. We all have a sense of what the term means, but when pushed for a clear definition we struggle to agree: Influencer Think Outside The Box New Normal Shift Left What exactly is Shift Left? In simple terms, it is the process of early analysis or validation which […]
3 trends that will shape your career Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 28 October 2021 Categories In Career This is the session presented at Tahoe Dreamin’ 2021. DOWNLOAD 3 trends that will shape your career
$6 billion. The personal cost of poor Metadata Management Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 9 October 2021 Categories In Change Intelligence, Impact Analysis, Metadata management Config Change costs $6 billion dollars Facebook apologized late Monday for a massive 6 hour outage that knocked out service to the social media giant’s platforms for 3.5 billion users around the world, and said the disruption was due to a “faulty configuration change.” “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone […]
Sean Ouimette, Salesforce Practice Leader at Mastersolve: Why Have a Center of Excellence? Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 4 October 2021 Categories In CoE Sean Ouimette, Salesforce Practice Leader at Mastersolve, 20x Salesforce Certified and Center of Excellence expert, explains the benefits of having a COE. These include clarifying policy and strategy, improving creativity, and identifying organization bottlenecks. He talks about how a COE is a communication vehicle, and way to clarify process. Steps to creating a COE include […]
