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Monday Mindset: September 12

If you ever feel down about where you are in life right now, know that this isn’t your destination. You’re laying a lot of foundation for your future. Right now, you’re building the experience upon which you will draw as you achieve your goals. At times, it will be hard. There will be times you’ll …

Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide

Hot off the press, I passed the Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam this morning! The first thing that I’ll say is that the exam was a good one, and a must-have for anyone working on project-based work. If you’ve worked in Agile environments, you’re ahead of the game. If you understand diagramming and diagram selection, …

Pro Code vs. No Code: When to Pull the Trigger

In this post, I shared a story where an implementation mixed a number of automation techniques with a trigger that wasn’t scalable in the long run. And that begs the question: When do you abandon no-code and opt for pro-code. Before I get into that, let’s highlight some guidance from Salesforce: Same-record field updates into …

More Than A Gift…

“I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it (yeah)” – Ariana Grande   I am an incredibly difficult person to shop for…   I’m not big into brands or anything like that…but my wife once quoted Ariana when describing her difficulties in buying gifts for me.   I’ll buy certain things …

Salesforce Automations and Scale: A Cautionary Tale

Whenever you create solutions, it’s very easy to miss the long game and not consider the full future state of the system. This oversight can be costly for the team that has to come behind you for maintenance. I want to share a story about an issue a developer was having with the use of …

Into the thick of it…

Hello, and welcome to my blog. The first thing that I want you to know is that I’ve thought long and hard about why, when, and how I would approach blogging again. And, to be frank, there were times when I thought about not…the reasons were voluminous and yet irrelevant. At least all but one: …

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