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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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
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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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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"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
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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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 …
Disclaimer: This summary is based on documentation and testing in Dev Org. Please do your own research. I've been researching for a particular use case:Once a day, send out an email to a user for each asset that hase been created that day. One Email per asset based on a template. Traditionally, I'd use Batch …
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"Salesforce is not good for everything, Know your boundaries." On or Off the Salesforce platform, every Salesforce Architect has to make this decision at some point. Today I talk with Emily McCowan about what goes into the decision of on- or off-platform. https://youtu.be/EfOLyn3zLdQ
The last 6 weeks were an amazing time. A long relaxing vacation with friends and family. There are a few things I learned for my Salesforce career. Today, I want to share three of them with you. 1. Road-Signs are amazingOne part of the vacation was a bike tour in Bavaria and Austria, mostly on dedicated …
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