What is DevOps Center — 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…

OrgConfessions.com — OrgConfessions.com What started as a fun project, collecting anecdotes about implementation issues in April 2019 became a book, movie trailer and presentation series by Dreamforce19. At that point we’d got 400 confessions and made the bold claim that we’d have 1000 by Dreamforce2020. …

Dreamforce19 — Accelerating implementation We all know the benefits of accelerating and streamlining the release cycle; the business is more agile and reduced development effort. But there are even greater benefits if you think about the entire implementation lifecycle, which includes improved analysis that engages the end users to discover what they really need…

Dreamforce19 — Dreamforce19 At Dreamforce19 we had 405 OrgConfessions.com. Less than a year later we are at over 1,000. So what has changed, and how does it impact you, the Admin, Developer and Consultant? First, let’s look at the root cause analysis of the OrgConfessions and see how they have changed in the…

How process-led approach helps to tackle regulations and risks — Whatever regulation you have to operate within, producing documentation and building a compliant management system can become a major overhead. While every system is intended to add value and support the people who need to operate within it, many management systems can become the proverbial “tail wagging the dog”. When…

THINKING AHEAD — THINKING AHEAD Salesforce, as ever, is thinking ahead of the game. Whilst everyone was trying to come to terms with shutdown, Salesforce created an excellent COVID-19 Response playbook to help leaders and managers understand how to transition through the stabilize, reopen and into the growth phases. In this recent SalesforceBen article I…

I Marie Kondo’d the hell out of my office. Why did it take 4 years and 10 weeks of lockdown? — I have been WFH on and off since we started Elements.cloud in 2016. …

Business benefits — Business benefits Poor user adoption is a triple threat: users not using apps, so no data and wasting money on Salesforce licenses users using apps but entering incorrect data leading to poor decision making by humans and Einstein user using apps but wasting time with “field that look like CVS receipts” Post…