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2️⃣Does system function as specified (in requirements)?

3️⃣Did we miss anything important?!? 😱

Well, if you missed our last #BadAssBA 

#BusinesAnalyst trailblazer session Vanessa Grant and I run, then too bad.

You missed a whole lotta valuable info, that’s what happened.

Here’s my (probably unpopulat) opinion: UAT needs to be boring. No argument, no unhealthy conflict. 🙅🏻‍♀️

I led the bit on Test Strategy – here are a few tips from the other day:

🍩 Test strategy is a contract between delivery team and client – it’s really important to pin down what success actually looks like upfront

🍩 Shift-left testing 👈🏻means involving testers in requirements gathering, not just at the pointy end. Early visibility = de-risked interfaces

🍩 Definition of Done (DoD) matters at every status – not just “it’s built,” but “metadata documented, click paths logged, tested as the actual user”

And I think Anh Phuong Ta said this best: Perfection is the enemy of Completion. (Thank you for fielding questions in the chat area! Youre the bestest MostBadAssBA we know and love 🫶🏻)

Things won’t always go to plan. 📉

Development runs late. ⏰

Deployments slip. 🍌

Your job as a BA is to stay flexible, prioritise agggressively (rar), and advocate for what actually matters to your users.

If you’re navigating a messy UAT phase right now, you’re not alone.

Our video will be up when we get a moment.

Remember that us Community Group Leaders (and all organisers of community events) are VOLUNTEERS, and we also have lives and family and work and clients and UAT to manage.. so don’t nag. Ok Nag but softlysoftly so you don’t step on our Guilt Button 😬

Big thanks to my amazing and awesome co-leader Vanessa Grant for the deep-dive on writing UAT scripts with AI ❤️.

I am so lucky I get to do such fun stuff with Utterly Stupendous #HumanBeans like her 🥰

ps: by the way – pic below (along with many other super doodles) is from my book Successful Salesforce Projects – get yours from your nearest Amazon store! 💗

#OnThePeiroll

#LoveYourQAPeeps

#QA

#Testing

#ProjectDelivery 

Winning Swag by guessing Miguel Carvalho‘s brain?!

SuperGrannies (and Grandads) rocking the stage?!? 👵🏼👴🏼

#ThisISPortugal…Dreamin baybeh!! 😎😆

Having been to quite a few of these amazing conferences, I can say that they all have their own vibe … and PORTUGAL DREAMIN’® absolutely had it in spades!

Connecting with friends and meeting people and learning… that’s what all this is about (but also dancing, singing and partying!!) 🎶 🎤🎹

Deep thanks to OneMerge redk – CRM & CX Transformation and @titan for sponsoring and supporting community events – we appreciate you all more than you know ❤️

And to Miguel Carvalho and Daniel Baptista – you both show what the intersection of deep friendship, music and tech can achieve!! 👏🏻

I hope the video is able to showcase the vibe and magic of the event.

Have you been to your local community conference yet?🧐

If not – go!

The learnings, the people, the conversations… you don’t want to miss out on any of those things.

Ah what a great event!

See you at the next one?! 🥰

#DreaminJunkie

#OnThePeiroll

#PortugalDreamin26

#PD26 

I did not “just come off a call” with Vanessa Grant because obviously I’m still in Lisbon … Shattered from a magnificent day at PORTUGAL DREAMIN’® (will post about this another time)

I did make this video last week when I actually got off the call because I was so excited about the topic! 😅

I mean, only geeks like us can get excited over UAT right?!

Join us next #BadAssBA Business Analyst Trailblazer meetup to get the lowdown on this as we are both in the thick of it.

I mean, soon as I get home this weekend we are in prod deployment mode… And there’ll be smoke testing and what not-ing.

Fun stuff!

This will be real stuff from real projects.

Allllll the messy things Trailhead doesn’t prepare you for.

Come one come all!

Especially if you care about delivering that project into a successful go-live!

So #BeThereOrBeSquare!

Link to join in the comments below – make sure to set it to “Most Recent” as LinkedIn hides URLs. 😑

Ps I could not get the actual song as a sound ack because you know, copyright and all that.

But it wouoda been cool, no?! 😆

#LetsTalkAboutTestBaybee

#LetsTalkAboutUATeee

#OnThePeiroll 

🚨 Interrupting your news feed on the London Salesforce World Tour and PORTUGAL DREAMIN’® posts with…

A bit of whim 🧚

A bit of see 😈

A dash of insightful postereeeee 🎶

So I was listening to the Curiosity Shop podcast with Brene Brown and Adam Grant and the topic of

#DecisionMaking came up so I thought I had to dash out a sketch.

Here it is.

Irreversible + Inconsequential = 💩

Reversible + Inconsequential = 🤷🏻‍♀️ whatevs

Irreversible + Consequential = 🤔 real hard

Reversible + Consequential = 🙋🏻‍♀️ no brainer

That was the tl;dr summary of Jeff Bezos decision making framework.

Like him or not, he does make decisions pretty… decisively.

And they do generally pan out…

Business-wise.

So.

A tattoo is… In the top left quadrant*.

Marrying the wrong partner is kinda in the middle to right above the x-axis.

Having kids with the wrong partner is very much in the corner of the top left quadrant.

🙁

Dyed punk hair is in the Whatevs dept.

Something I need to keep in mind. 😁

I think I’ll print this out or tattoo it in my eyeballs as the teen sprogs push my buttons with their wanton teenageriness. 😬

Sigh.

Parents of teens, you are a hero.

I see you. ❤️

#ParentingHack

#CharacterBuilding

#OnThePeiroll

* I think the tattoo location on the four quadrant will depend on what the tattoo is and which body part 😬

I mean a 💩 tattoo on the forehead is different than a ❤️ tattoo between the toes.

Something Silvia Denaro Vicki Moritz-Henry Nathaniel Sombu Lawrence Newcombe built.

♥️

I am so proud to be with these amazing #HumanBeans. ❤️❤️

Yesterday was a beautiful day.

A day where we were there to #DoGood.

No sales.

No talk about licensing costs.

No other agenda than making the world a bit better for non profits.

No one was paid to be there.

No one was forced to be there.

We were there to make the world better for those using #salesforce.

Want to feel amazing?

Genuinely?

Serve others.

#DoGood for no other reason than you can.

I am so deeply deeply proud to be involved with Shirtforce and The Technical Collective, alongside volunteer work I do. 💗

I always wonder… How did I ever get so lucky to be surrounded by such amazing souls?? 💖

May you be as lucky as me.

#OneLuckyDonut

#OnThePeiroll 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/the-technical-collective_salesforce-sfdocommons-activity-7472755534652395520-cl4x?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABr1aRkB0PeVZDHZPj7ct_TlERa75BEYJiA

Want to win an amazing Shirtforce tee? 👕

(especially the #BuildItRight Well-Architected shirt you see below 👇)

Then you need to enter the competition by checking out the comment section below (make sure to set it to ‘Most Recent’ as LI likes to hide outgoing URLs… even when it’s pointing to their own platform! 😐) #SadlyButNotReally I won’t be there…

Because I’ll be at PORTUGAL DREAMIN’® instead!!

Rocking that PartyBlazers sunnies 😎

Sipping that cool mocktail 🍹

Doing my talk on “AI says Yes but_you_really_should_use_your_noggin_and_not_blindly_do_what_it_says_unless_you_like_chaos_and_catastrophe_and_want_your_braincell_to_erode” … or something like that 😆

Actually it’s the same one I did at London’s Calling so if you missed it there – get your ticket and your flights to Lisbon and COME ON OVER.

Especially if you have a Shirtforce tee we could do a selfie and try to win MOAR TEEs (you can’t have too many!)

Anyway – Vicki Moritz-Henry dinged me with the meme below (guess it’s revenge for all those I made of others who are all good sports 🥰) but which is totally okay!

Whether it’s WT London or in Lisbon, I hope you have a fabulous time!

#DreaminJunkie

#OnThePeirollInLisbon