The #PeiItForwardChallenge is BACK! 🎉
The #PeiItForwardChallenge is BACK! 🎉
And this time, I’m giving away 2 spots on the next Consulting Discovery Masterclass starting 16 April.
Here’s the deal 👇🏻
You want to become a standout #SalesforceConsultant – not just someone who can configure, but someone who can lead a room, ask the right questions, and actually deliver what the client needs.
But maybe money is tight. Maybe you’re not sure if it’s the right fit yet.
Maybe you just want to earn it. 😊
This is your shot.
To win your spot, you’ll need to:
👉🏻 Rack up Trailhead points during the competition window 💪🏻
👉🏻 Show your #PeiItForward spirit – add value to the ohana and the wider community by doing good ❤️
👉🏻 Use #PeiItForwardChallenge so I can track you down!
The Masterclass covers the stuff nobody teaches you in certs:
🍩 How to run a proper discovery
🍩 How to ask questions that actually get you answers
🍩 How to map a process without losing the plot
🍩 How to write requirements people understand how to build and test
🍩 How to manage stakeholders without losing your mind
Real skills.
Real practice.
Real messy scenarios. 😅
Competition details and entry link in the comments 👇🏻
May the (top 2) bestest contestants win! 🍩😊
I am SO excited to be going back #PolishDreamin this coming Friday
I am SO excited to be going back #PolishDreamin this coming Friday (yayyy!) but the speaker lineup is so stacked I’m going to need to clone myself – and I can’t! (booo!) 😭 Check these out though!!
🍩 Opening keynote by Guilda H. Krzysztof Augustynowicz Paulina Pytowska and Łukasz Bujło – “Showing Up Together in the Age of AI.” Knowing these humans, this will be more about the human element than the tech ❤️
🍩 Meeee! 🙋🏻♀️ – “The Well-Architected Project Team: Why Everyone Needs an Architect Mindset.” Come say hi! 😁
🍩 Jean-Pierre Rizzi 🚀 and Romain Quijal on “Build Your Own Slack Chatbot” Gutted this clashes with my session!! 😭
🍩 Dagmara Ryborz on “Shipping While Building the Plane” – delivering while the product is still evolving. Go for the adrenaline rush alone. 😅
🍩 Rajesh Unadkat on “Automating the Customer Lifecycle: A Playbook from TEDx” – Tristan Lombard recommends that this is a must-attend session, so I will! 😍
🍩 David Fernandez Rivero on “Invisible Leaks: How Integrations Quietly Expose Your Salesforce Data” – the debates with people like David are precisely WHY I love these events. 🧠
🍩 Phillip Poynton, Jennifer Ndlovu (Woman In Tech) and Hugo Rosário on “The Future of Salesforce Talent” – three humans who genuinely care about helping new talent find their footing. ❤️
🍩 Frédérique Mounier on “Competing With the Machine” – I will be at this one. Full stop. ❤️
🍩 Sarah Kelleher on “From Doing to Delegating” – Nebula don’t just TALK about work-life balance, they walk it.
🍩 Justin Piehowski on “A Well-Architected Career” – So keen to hear this one.
And also talks by Jakub Byrski Joanna Bartoszczuk Piotr Gajek Geraint Waters Chetan Chugh!
Mannnn what a lineup!! 🤩
Paulina and Łukasz next time, two days please! 😅
Thank you sponsors PwC Sofigate Cloudity Craftware Enxoo ForVendi Nextview Consulting SurveyVista TITAN Vonage Scoutz
Go to the sessions, talk to the speakers, thank the sponsors – and then SHARE IT.
Come find me in Wrocław – I would LOVE to meet you! 🥰
Wehey! Come join us this evening
Wehey! Come join us this evening for an engaging event! If you have been to my sessions before, you’ll know what to expect!!
And I may or may not be running my ‘in’-famous “Wrongest Quiz Competition” 😁
And I may or may not have some certification vouchers for the winners donated by the wonderful wonderful amazing Alexandra Klein 😉
So if you’re new to the ecosystem, and you’re interested in becoming a
#BadAssBA (I also run the virtual Business Analyst trailblazer community group with my amazing co-lead Vanessa Grant) – come join us this evening for some fun learning ❤️
“Do we really need them?” 🙄
“Do we really need them?” 🙄
Strong, tight #AcceptanceCriteria is something we consultants are used to when documenting requirements.
It tells us the outcome we are looking for.
It tells us how to build it.
It tells us how to test it.
It tells the client how to check whether we have done what we promised to do.
(So we can get paid) 😁
But what if you’re in-house admin?
Isn’t it all just “red tape” and “unnecessary admin”?! 🤷🏻♀️
Whut the…!
Nooo! 😖
This solution architect I’m coaching started their journey a few years ago as a solo admin and have cut their technical teeth on new clouds and expanding platform integrations.
But that meant poor governance and unstructured way of working.
😬
She connected with me to level up her #leadership and people skills, but we found out that she also needed help on proper documentation when I saw how requirements were captured.
I also had to introduce her to the salesforce “Well-Architected Framework!” 😮
She’s technically capable, however I think there’s a lot I can help with her gaps around #BusinessAnalysis and #governance.
Adding good ACs to user stories is a good start.
Also the user stories could use a bit of tightening with a wrench 🔧
😁
I have to say tho, when I saw those requirements … I almost turned green!
Hulk smash!
Oh my word Irish Dreamin’ is next week
Oh my word Irish Dreamin’ is next week and I am GUTTED I can’t be there! 😭
BUT! If I were to go, these are the sessions I’d absolutely mark in my diary! 📅👀
🍩 Opening keynote by the incredible Lilith Van Biesen and Miriam McCabe – CTA powerhouses talking about “The Evolving Architect: Defining the Role and Driving its Future.” Salesforce is relaunching the architecture program and these two are leading the charge!
🍩 Ellie Matthewman and Richard Ivan on “From Chaos to Clarity: Salesforce Debugging and Monitoring” – incredibly technical but both have this rare gift of translating the complex into plain English.
🍩 Andre van Kampen on “Inheriting a 10 year old org”. What did he find?? And how did he clean up the mess?? Go and find out! 😬
🍩 Emma Keeling with “10 Click Not Code Tricks Your Users Will Love” – especially if you’re in the nonprofit sector.
🍩 Sam Wadhwani MCMI ChMC on “Diary of the CTA: What It Really Takes” If you’ve got an architecture mindset – go!
🍩 Nicolas Despres and Sabri Benhadda on “Test-Driven AI-Assisted Agent Development” – Seeing how TDD methodology applies to agent implementations?! YES PLEASE.
🍩 Matthew Morris on “Modern Salesforce Architecture in the Agentic Era” – because topic’s fascinating and Matt’s a great speaker! 🥰
🍩 Aarchit Gupta on “BAs Empowering GTM: Evaluating Salesforce AI Use Cases” – THIS is my jam.
🍩 Kathy Waterworth with “Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should” – I WISH more people attended sessions like this.
Mannnn what a line-up!! 😍
And if I were there, I’d be making a beeline to say hi to every single speaker, every sponsor, and every wonderful human who makes these dreamin’ events the magic that they are. ❤️
Because here’s the thing – without the sponsors, without the organisers, without the community that shows up and participates… these spaces for learning, connecting, expanding your horizon and creating your future simply wouldn’t exist.
So if you’re going:
✅ Go to the sessions
✅ Say hi to the speakers
✅ Thank the sponsors
✅ And PLEASE – share what you learn on LinkedIn, at your local user group, anywhere you can
Don’t get so caught up in the noise happening outside.
Focus on yourself and the impact you can make on the people around you.
THAT is what dreamin’ events are for.
Since I can’t be there… you go, have the best time, and tell me ALL about it. We need so much more of this magic. 🌟
Thank you sponsors: TITAN PDF Butler Supermums Flexpricer® CPQ for Salesforce capeMBX Provar ClickLearn Testsigma Gearset @bluewave 🤩
And big massive thank you to #ID26 organisers: Jorgan Strathman Anila O’Sullivan Eric Praud Nishant Singh Panwar Barry Hughes Ciarán Fitzgerald
❤️❤️
You folks are the CRAIC-EST of the CRAIC!! 😍😍
Would you let your client/users design your data model? 😬
Would you let your client/users design your data model? 😬
There is really only one answer:
It depends on whether they know what they’re talking about.
Most of the time, an organisation hires a software partner to help them implement a product because They Know What They Are Talking about.
Or most of the time anyway (coughcough-lets-leave-the-bad-apples-for-another-post-coughcough) 💩🍎🤢
We discussed this in detail at our last #ZenClub session including how to deal with a client-side project manager (who is also a contractor who may have a #HiddenAgendaToExtendOwnContract?) 🤔
It depends on why you think they are doing what they are doing.
Are they even aware?
Your strategies will depend on what you find out – whether to go above their head, or help them out, or… there are plenty of other tactics that is at your disposal.
Power, politics and human behaviour feature heavily in the success or failure of any project. But of course we also discuss about the tech – which is where Piyusha Pilania comes in! (This solution architect, MVP and all round GoldenHoodie ❤️ talks about all things agentforce, slack, tableau, marketing cloud etc)
Anyway, I’ve decided share some insights of our discussion in this week’s newsletter (link to subscribe 👇🏻)
Would you let your client/end users design your implementation for you??
What happened?
Give me the deets!! 😆
When my client does that to me, I pull out my analogy about car chassis or tailoring a dress (am sure I can think up of more!). 🚗🚋👗🥻👖
Unless the client has a knowledgeable architect…
But even then…
What’s your strategy of dealing with this?
