Passing BA Certification vs US drivers test Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 23 July 2022 Categories In Business Analysis, Career BA Certification is like the US Drivers Test When I arrived in the US 10 years ago I had 30 years of driving experience. But still needed to pass the US test to get my California license. Clearly, I knew how to drive, albeit on the wrong side of the road!! I expected to pass […]
Salesforce BA Certification – experts discuss Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 15 July 2022 Categories In Business Analysis, Webinar The Salesforce BA Certification just dropped and my LinkedIn feed is on fire with people who have passed. But for every 1 person that passed, there are probably 100 who are aspiring to become BAs. So we managed to grab time from 3 experts, all of who have passed the BA Certification on Day1, to […]
Valuable insights from 2022 State of Salesforce DevOps Report Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 2 July 2022 Categories In Business Analysis, Change Intelligence, DevOps A report for Admins, Business Analysts, and Architects (as well as Developers) The annual Salesforce State of DevOps Report from Copado always makes interesting reading. DevOps is a rapidly emerging space and it has been further validated by the launch of Salesforce DevOps Center. So has the DevOps space “crossed the chasm” in Geoffrey Moore […]
Elements multi-cloud dependencies Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 28 June 2022 Categories In Architecture, Business Analysis, Change Intelligence, Metadata management Salesforce is not an island. Elements multi-cloud dependencies. The need for enterprise-wide, not just Salesforce, change intelligence is becoming obvious. Change intelligence is the aggregation of all documentation that supports the implementation change cycle for apps and processes. It allows collaboration across different stakeholders and enables them to make risk-based decisions when making changes. There are […]
Tractor Pulling is like Salesforce Tech Debt Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 4 May 2022 Categories In Change Intelligence, Impact Analysis, Metadata management, Technical Debt What is Tractor Pull? Tractor Pulling is known as “the world’s heaviest motorsport.” Tractor pulling is a competitive motorsport in which modified farm tractors, modified tractors or trucks drag a metal sled along a prescribed course. The sled contains a box filled with weight that is mechanically winched forward as the sled progresses along the […]
DevOps Center is free replacement for Change Sets Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 1 May 2022 Categories In Change Intelligence, DevOps What is DevOps Center Moving metadata between Sandbox and Production Orgs has never been easy, particularly for the declarative developer – i.e. the Admin. Change Sets are a painful experience and replacing them has been long overdue. Fortunately, that wait is over. DevOps Center is the free replacement for Change Sets and it goes into […]
Coming to TDX? Experience SF like a local. Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 12 April 2022 Categories In Career 5 really cool outdoor activities around San Francisco to explore before/after TDX 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 […]
Up close and personal: 5 networking hacks Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 9 April 2022 Categories In Career With DevOps Dreamin’ last week and a flurry of events at the end of the month – TrailblazerDX #TDX22, Northeast Dreamin’ #NED22 and Texas Dreamin’ #TXD22 – it is clear that in-person events are coming back. BTW We’re sponsoring TrailblazerDX, on stage with Salesforce DevOps center and the sponsor of the AfterParty with Weezer. We’re […]
Org Adoption and Salesforce Event Logs Post author By Ian Gotts Post date 31 March 2022 Categories In Implementation, Product Updates, User Adoption We talk about “Building the right thing” by more complete and rigorous business analysis before you launch into development. You may have heard the term “Shift Left” which is identifying issues and conflicts through business and org analysis as early as possible – in design rather than in production – as they are 100x cheaper […]
