No matter if you are an architect, admin, consultant or developer, rephrasing requirements is a key skill.Today's Road To CTA series shares my strategy on how to rephrase any requirements in a short and precise manner. https://youtu.be/nWgspaLYIS8
A letter to Ankit Taneja
Dear Ankit For many years our paths have regularly crossed each other in the Berlin Salesforce community. You have been a pillar of our community for so long, I can’t remember when we met. I write this letter not to thank you for your contributions to the Salesforce community, in Berlin and Hamburg, but to …
Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect – Thoughts From 9 CTAs
Becoming a CTA is a daunting task. I was curious, what does it really take to become a CTA. 9 CTAs agreed to interviews about what goes into passing the board. Everybody's story is different, but I could find commonalities in money, time, coaching, experience, and support required. I hope this information can give some of …
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SAIMA Session 10 – Large Data Volume
It’s Friday evening and more than 40 people met to listen to Jiji Jayasingh, Manoj Nambirajan, and Kid Jansen to learn more about Large Data Volume. It’s great to see so many dedicated, motivated people spend their Friday evenings on such an important topic.Shruti Naldiga was the host of the session. https://youtu.be/ozsw4-MoX0o
A clean Org makes happy users
Is your user adoption dropping? Does it take weeks to onboard new colleagues? Is your innovation speed decreasing? You might have an acute form of dirty Org. Bart and the User Group Veenendaal, Netherlands joined me for a session on Org cleaning. Thanks to all participants for the great discussion. Thanks to Nana Gregg, Bart …
Road To CTA E9 – Solve CTA scenario in time
Today's topic is an advanced topic, should only be applied to experienced CTA candidates or Architects. Solving the CTA scenario in the allocated time is a quite daunting task. It takes quite some practice and strategies. Episode 9 of the Road to CTA series covers my strategies for standardization, my defaults, my practice list, and a few …
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Op-Ed: The Salesforce Architect Role, Moving from Art to Skill and Blueprints
The way we work as architects is constantly changing. Since our industry is maturing, in my opinion, Salesforce Architecture (for the most part) develops to Skill and Blueprints. But with that development from art to skill, the way we work needs to change as well.Read the full post on that topic on my first Salesforce …
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Book review: Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect
Summary Salesforce Architecture is hard but Tameem Bahir just made it a little easier. Tameem released a book ‘Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect’. The book was an instant success and can already be considered a classic. He created an amazing resource for all Salesforce Architects and a must-have for all #journeyToCTA candidates. I’d have …
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How to get everything to work (eventually)
Authors: Tanja Janjić & Johann Furmann Summary Often, we can’t quite figure out why some piece of (low) code doesn’t work. We are 100% sure it’s supposed to work, but for some reason, it doesn’t. Maybe it already works in a Sandbox but not in Production, maybe it worked in the past but suddenly stopped …
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Architects do the dishes
In order to be on my peak Architect performance, I need to re-energize every hour or so.Doing the dishes is perfect for that.#ArchitectsDoTheDishes