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…
Dreamforce is all about shoes. Not just Marc’s. Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 24 September 2021 Categories In Business Analysis by Carlos Siqueira, Elements Global Product Evangelist I just came from #Dreamforce21 and this was one to remember. Lots of people asked me why I joined Elements.cloud and what we do. A potential partner approached me at the lobby of the hotel, introduced himself and his wife. He wanted to understand what we do and…
5 really cool outdoor activities around SF for #DF21 Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 10 September 2021 Categories In Career The city of San Francisco has so much to offer: bike the Bridge, visit Golden Gate park, watch the baseball, etc. But within 30 mins of the center of the city there is also some stunning scenery which you would probably never discover on your own. #1: Drive the steepest road in the city. Everybody…
This specification is a horses ass (5 Whys) Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 9 September 2021 Categories In Business Analysis Why US railroad gauge is 4 feet, 8.5 inches The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Spoiler alert: this story goes all the way back to Imperial Rome. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that’s the way they built them in England,…
Where is the CarFax for your Org? Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 28 August 2021 Categories In Business Analysis, Change Intelligence, Documentation, Impact Analysis You wouldn’t spend $5,000 on a used car without checking CarFax and going through all the history. As CarFax says. “A car’s history affects its value”. So why are you risking thousands of dollars when changing Salesforce by not assembling the complete picture of the Configuration Knowledge. Derisking the car buying process Buying a car…
Is your Org BG or PG? (Before GoogleMaps or Post GoogleMaps) Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 21 August 2021 Categories In Business Analysis, Change Intelligence, Documentation, Impact Analysis GOOGLE MAPS IS SO MUCH MORE THAN A MAP We might never have reached our destination if it weren’t for Bret Taylor, the COO of Salesforce. He was the inspiration behind of Google Maps. He was given the task of building a competitor to Yellow Pages. Fortunately, he looked at the potential if you brought…
Jeff Susich, Salesforce Consultant: Lessons from 200+ Implementations Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 21 August 2021 Categories In Article Jeff Susich, Salesforce Consultant and trainer, shares the lessons from completing over 200 Salesforce implementations. Key lessons for creating and maintaining an outstanding Org are 1. Get senior buy in 2. Don’t over complicate it 3. Do great training 4. Ask users the right questions, such as “What do you want Salesforce to do for…
