A new year comes with new year resolutions and new release logos. Clearly the theme here must be about being Agile. Every individual and organisation can benefit from becoming more agile in 2018. In 2006 Salesforce made the switch from a waterfall approach to agile in order to improve productivity within a growing global engineering team. Read more about Being More Agile[…]
For this week’s post, I wanted to share a recording of a talk I’ve delivered at a few Salesforce events in 2017. The talk is all about the Salesforce Architect Journey, with a particular focus on why I believe that the architect track is a truly valid one for us administrators to consider. Wondering whether Read more about Awesome Admin to Application Architect …And Beyond! [Video][…]
Throughout our series of blogs on the Awesome Admin Ten Commandments, we have shared the rules that we think all Salesforce admins should know and (for the most part) follow. We had a lot of fun putting this list together, and even more fun sharing it with the community – not only through the blog Read more about The Awesome Admin Ten Commandments[…]
Rules are made to be broken, right? But, before you start groaning too much, this isn’t one of those ‘twists in the tale’ where we tell you the only rule is that there are no rules and that the first nine commandments were a waste of your time and can be ignored. Most certainly not Read more about Admin Commandment #10: An Awesome Admin should sometimes… break the rules![…]
So here we are then with the penultimate post in the Admin Commandments series and this time we turn our attention to how us Awesome Admins should be protecting our org. Let’s start with a simple analogy: Security is an Inside Out job! What does this mean!?! Well, from the outside, by protecting our org Read more about Admin Commandment #9 An Awesome Admin should protect their org… for more reasons than you think![…]
As we approach the end of our Awesome Admin Ten Commandments series, we simply had to find space for a commandment relating to the Salesforce community which has taught us, and countless others, so much over the years. In an earlier commandment, we talked about the benefits of admins pushing on with their own learning Read more about Admin Commandment #8: An Awesome Admin should always… care about the community![…]
Welcome back to our series on the Awesome Admin Ten Commandments! Last week we spoke at the inaugural London’s Calling community event, releasing all of our ten commandments into the wild for the first time, and we’re excited to share the final three commandments with you all. Starting with… Admin Commandment #7: an awesome admin should Read more about Admin Commandment #7: An Awesome Admin should always… position themselves between IT and the business[…]
Well, you don’t have to be the brainiest admin out there to work out from the title that this commandment is about Trailhead. Sort of. What we want to talk about here is really using things like Trailhead as the jumping-off point for embarking on your own personalised learning journey for you and your org. So while Read more about Admin Commandment #6: An Awesome Admin should always… blaze their own learning trail![…]
And so we continue… What’s the next item on our awesome admin checklist? Salesforce pushes out new releases three times a year, yes that’s correct a new release drops in our laps not once, but three times each year. These upgrades arrive in the form of the Spring, Summer and Winter releases. Now, since the Read more about Admin Commandment #5: An Awesome Admin should always… be ready for the next release![…]
For Admin Commandment #4 we’re focusing on the age-old question of ‘how much code does an admin need to know?’, but with a twist. We believe an admin doesn’t need to know any code to be a good admin, but what’s certain is that they really need to know the value of code: where it’s Read more about Admin Commandment #4 – An Awesome Admin should always… know the value of clicks AND code![…]