London’s Calling was EPIC! 😍 for so many reasons!
London’s Calling was EPIC! 😍 for so many reasons!
Let me count the ways (at least for my first session!) Miriam McCabe Lilith Van Biesen Philippe Ozil Kate Lessard Jessica Langston Christie Fidura ❤️❤️
I didn’t get to as many sessions as I wanted because I just got so distracted by fascinting conversations but this one stuck with me!
… A cozy session with the human faces of #Salesforce that turned into everyone in the room telling a joke.
Yes.
Mandatory participation. 😅
(It’s so hard to say no to Lilith!!)
What I can tell you is that the bar was… varied. 😬
There were jokes about tech and non-tech topics, funny, cringe-worthy (my contribution was about my kids talking about manga… they were speaking manga-nese! Get it?! 😆 I crack myself up!!)
But underneath all the terrible jokes where some genuinely good stuff.
The Architect team shared their focus:
1️⃣ Rebuilding trust with the community. And from what I saw in that room, it’s working.
2️⃣ Content quality – practical content on the Salesforce Architects blog aimed at practitioners… and they’re accepting community contributions until the 19th of June. If you’ve got something worth saying, go find that form. 👀 3️⃣ Feedback Fridays – every Friday, they share what feedback they’ve received and what they’re actually doing about it.
Someone new to the ecosystem asked what they should do to make the most of the community. Here are the nuggets:
🍩 Show up to your local community group.
🍩 Share what you know, even if you’re new.
🍩 Crowdsource your learning. Somebody will have come across your problem.
And if no one answers… RAGEBAIT!!! 🎣
Put out something WRONG and someone, somewhere will come and correct you! That’s how you find your answer 😆
Anyway I found this quite fun.
HUUUUUGE THANK YOU to Louise Lockie Francis Pindar Kerry Townsend Todd Halfpenny for another outstanding year!
Man those entertainment rooms are such a great idea!
I got in to see the beatboxing one towards the end (because so busy talking to people!!), and from seeing the pics of the other rooms like linedancing, I wish I did that too! AAAAHHH IF ONLY I COULD CLONE MYSELF! 🤪
If you’re in the Salesforce ecosystem and not plugged into your local community yet – do it now.
And please have a joke ready.
The bar is low.
You’ll be fine.
…probably. 😬
(Halloumi Ben Duong 👋🏻🤪)
Were you at my session at London’s Calling last Friday?🤨
Were you at my session at London’s Calling last Friday?🤨
If not – why not?! Just kidding.
Aske Bong-Saxe did a good job of exploring the essense of the talk (minus my snazzy cartoons of course 🤭)
Have a read of the blog below 👇🏻
We need more introspection.
More connection.
I believe that focusing on the human side of things – the emotional intelligence of human relationships, as well as the three thinking skills:
1️⃣Critical thinking
2️⃣Design thinking
3️⃣Systems thinking
… these skills will survive anything the future can throw at us!
I mean, read any sf&f book!
Regardless of how dystopian our future could look like, it’s the intrepid hero that uses his noggin in the right way that crashes that evil AI/alien tech (🎩tip to Independence Day)! 🤖👾🛸👽
And if the #ZombieApocolypse comes – those skills will also come in handy, though I’d throw in that the resourcefulness of a MacGyver would come in useful!
Haha! #SorryNotSorry for where my braincells took this! 😆
“Quack quack quuackity quaaack?” 🪿
“Moo Moomi Meowoww!” 🐄🐈
Sometimes project meetings feel like a visit to McDonald’s farm 😬, because no one seems to be saying things that mean the same thing.
For example, a project RAG status – or the practice of using traffic lights to indicate overall health of a project via different dimensions require Data Dictionary. 🚦
…Or at least some form of agreed definition so we are all speaking the same language. 🙄
When the argument comes down to:
“I don’t want to set project status to RED because it’s not ‘It’s gone nuclear and we can’t work anymore’ so it will stay as YELLOW.”
That just makes things difficult to escalate to steering committee to help unblock urgent items so we can continue to move forward. 😖
This happens in organisations that have a culture that is highly political because we should not be afraid of saying:
“Hey, we’re in trouble and we need some support here!” 🛟
Misunderstandings, un-clarity (is there such a word??) and misalignment breeds situations where assumptions will cause pain… and the pain gets pain-ier as time goes by – I think I need to write a white paper about this 😆
This is especially true on a client-side project, where miscommunication, misalignment and politics cause no end of delay because they don’t get hit with a big timesheet invoice that a consulting-led project would be issuing every month. 💰💸
Whatever your role, make sure you always get clarity.
Because as Brené Brown says – “Clarity is Kindness.”
And we need more of that please.
Wow.. two videos in two days!! Must be a record 😆
Wow.. two videos in two days!! Must be a record 😆
I am toooo excited for London’s Calling so am listing down all the sessions I’d like to go to (may require cloning)!! ❤️❤️
Here are some of them…
🍩 Neurodiversity Beyond Masking – Paul Ginsberg & Roger Farrow MSc, MA, PGCE. Not everyone operates the same way and masking takes enormous energy. This conversation deserves its own spotlight and I’m so glad it’s getting one.
🍩 Modern Salesforce Architecture: Evolving Without Starting Again – Matthew Morris.
🍩 When AI Meets Social Impact – Building a brain injury support agent. THESE are the AI stories we need more of. ❤️
🍩 The “Just Build It” Myth – Leanne Botwright . If you’ve ever watched a demo sparkle… and then lived the reality… you know exactly why this session matters. 😬
🍩 The Human Advantage in an AI World – Francis Pindar who’ll talk about how to use agents without losing our craft
🍩 From Requirements to Reality – Adam Lawrence. Process maps, build-ready diagrams, visual thinking. I will be in the front row. Adam, consider yourself warned. 👀
🍩 Don’t Start With the Roof – Foundation-first architecture thinking. Sam Wadhwani MCMI ChMC 🍬
And me? I’m on at 4:10pm – the graveyard slot. 😂
I’ll be talking about Architecting and Future-proofing your Career in the Age of Agentforce and AI – with some cartoons, a wrongest-answer quiz, and two books up for grabs.
Bring your coffee… But I will be watching for yawners. 👀 😆
Wow… Nine parallel tracks
There will absolutely be something for absolutely everyone.
If you’re going – come find me, stop me in a corridor, remind me your name (menopause brain is real and I have no shame about it 🫶🏻).
If you haven’t got a ticket yet… go check.
Link in comment 👇🏻
See you Friday?
🙌
If you are in Dallas
If you are in Dallas AND you want to know more about PDF Butler, you need to see Talia Johnson✨💖 – who is currently the global face of this amazing doc gen app!
She’s everywhere, sharing the great work PDF Butler is doing even before she started working for them (I remember in Brussels during YeurDreamin’ event many moons ago she was already taking pictures and ‘bigging’ them up on theh socials 🤭 – a little pun on the tall peeps they seem to hire up here)
So go catch up with her if you want to know more.
Yeah yeah I know she’s a friend and you’re probably going to say, “Hey Pei – you are so biased!”
Well, I think it’s because she’s my friend (and she doesn’t pay me or bribe me or anything) that I know she’s someone I would ABSOLUTELY do business with, because even though she can be a little eccentric at times (cough) she has what a lot of people in the industry don’t… INTEGRITY.
If you want to deal with someone who has that in buckets, connect with her.
If not, well.. you can go and wrestle a porcupine. 🦔
Because that tells me you LIKE pain!
Anyway, you can tell I’m a fan! Also, if you’re catching up with her in Dallas, go say hi to another FABULOUS #HumanBean in the ecosystem – Anh Phuong Ta 🥰
I just feel real lucky to have such amazing friends ❤️❤️❤️
Go buy from Talia Johnson✨💖
She’s mad and crazy and weird and wonderful in so many ways.
We all #NeedALittleTalia in our lives 🥰
PDF Butler is so lucky to have you.
So am I. 🫶🏻
I rarely love flight delays…
I rarely love flight delays… 😐 Unless it gives me time to edit a #DreaminSpeedRun of my time at CzechDreamin !!! 😁
Learning, connecting, sharing. ❤️
That’s what community is all about.
Monster thanks to sponsors AutoRABIT Enehano – Trusted ☁ Salesforce Partner for Business Growth ForVendi PDF Butler Nextview Consulting EzProtect SurveyVista CGI ADDA IT SOLUTIONS Dragonfly360 @titan NUBES Tech Plauti @CIOApplications
And big Děkuju from my heart to
#CzechDreamin26 organisers Martin Humpolec Petr Mudroch ☁ Lukas Razim Kristyna Turner Ekaterina Obolenskaya Michal Furmanek for suuuch an amazing event and the after-conference-trip to Cesky Krumlov 😍
Anyway this is just a small clip to share the vibe so hopefully you’ll want to come to the next dreamin event near you!