There’s a magical moment when you’ve completed your pre-requisite certs for your CTA. You are now a System and Application architect, amazing! Today I want to share my thoughts on the steps after you cleared the pre-requisites.Disclaimer: There are so many different ways to go about it, this is my personal opinion, go and find …
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7 Things Admins can learn from Developers
We can all learn from each other. Admins bring qualities, developers bring qualities, architects bring qualities, BAs bring qualities …Lilith and I had the honor to present 7 things we think Admins can learn from Developers. Code Formatting Naming Conventions Test Driven Development Solution DesignVersion ControlSOQL Think like a machine Don’t forget to also check …
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RTC E22: B2B Commerce Lightning Experience – Architect Overview
Which B2B company doesn’t have a or at least plans to have an online shop.In this week’s episode, I have a look into the architecture of an imaginary B2B Commerce LE project. Chrisoph Steinhauf helped me out a lot in creating that video. https://youtu.be/FNX0ETIk-j8
Post: What if the User wants to cancel the operation?
I’ve been doing some kind of product management for many years now and keep on making the same mistake.I keep forgetting: What if the User wants to cancel the operation? It’s easy to think about a process from start to finish, always moving forward. During development and testing, canceling or going back doesn’t matter but …
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Mock Review Board & Q/A: Universal Fun Cars
Candidate: Lilith van BiesenDate: 14-06-2021Scenario: Universal Fun Cars (FlowRepublic exclusive)Judges: Jakub Stefaniak, Jan Aertgeerts, Lawrence Newcombe, Johann Furmann https://youtu.be/BOZktg3wauI
Op-Ed: Three traps of too much experience
Summary: We all know, that experience is necessary for being a great professional or passing the CTA. In my opinion, too much experience can be a trap. Being very experienced can make you rely on old knowledge, experience and hinder your openness to listen. All the following apply to project works as well as the …
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5 things I learned coding AppExchange Apps
As most of you know, I’m not a full-time coder, but see myself as an Admin and Architect. Releasing 4 apps over the last couple of months was quite a challenge. As every other AppExchange developer I talked to agreed: “Coding apps make you a better Developer.” Today I want to share my 5 main learnings. …
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Road To CTA E19 – How to read requirements
“Technical solution is meaningless unless it meets the requirements!” This time I joined forces with Charlie Guo to talk about reading the requirements. Was such a fun collaboration where we talk about the Why, What, and How to improve reading the requirements. https://youtu.be/mJW7w-xX8rY
Op-Ed: Most data is less valuable than we think
We are in the business of collecting data and facilitating business processes. Today I want to focus on the data side of things. Some of our clients obsess over customer data. Many of us heard the story of “Walmart can predict pregnancies based on purchasing data”. The take-away from these stories for many of our …
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Op-Ed: It was us all along
Berlin is a dirty city, wherever you go you see trash. We, locals, tell each other that the tourists are to blame. It’s a convenient explanation, it’s not us, it’s the others. Nothing we can or must do about it. Suddenly, starting with the first lock-down, all tourists were gone. Almost 12 months without any …