Salesforce change sets are widely used today to move changes from sandbox to production. And why wouldn’t they still be used? In many cases, they provide an easy way to deploy metadata without knowing Git, XML, etc. But once your project or team gets to a certain size, you’ll start
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How to Support more Women in Salesforce DevOps
Now that we are in a hybrid world, the need for DevOps is obvious. Salesforce professionals, from admins to consultants and architects, have become experts on how to manage DevOps. Yet, only 16 percent of DevOps include women. It’s a staggering number, considering that the Salesforce DevOps ecosystem is so
Ways to Making Organizational Change Management a Priority
As technicians, we’re used to technical change management — converting the current state of a particular tech stack to a future state. Organizational change management, however, is often overlooked. Organizational change management broadly refers to any and everything you do to prepare and support your organization during a time of
AppOps: NextGen DevOps Built for Admins
DevOps has been a growing topic in the community, especially since Salesforce announced they were working on the DevOps Center last year, but there’s already a new kid on the block—AppOps. In this post I’ll attempt to explain what each is, the key differences between them, and how you can
New Research: Salesforce Delivery Teams Excel in Speed but at the Expense of Quality
Salesforce is the bridge that connects end-users and developers, including citizen developers, which make up a large portion of Salesforce’s developers. This explosion of Trailblazers have bypassed the challenges of traditional application development and led to the creation of millions of Salesforce applications over the last fifteen years. Naturally, there
Copado Certifies Over 4000 DevOps experts to address the DevOps skills gap left from Covid-19 digital shifts
A couple months ago, I spoke with Sanjay Gidwani of Copado about the number one in-demand skill in IT – DevOps. Since that discussion, COVID-19 has challenged organizations to adopt and embrace remote work and, in particular, DevOps teams, which require a strong level of communication, velocity, and security to
Q&A with Sanjay Gidwani, COO of Copado: On DevOps, the #1 In-Demand Skill
Today, DevOps is the most sought after skill in IT. According to a recent study, DevOps (64%) is more in demand than cloud certifications (61%), industry domain knowledge (56%), development (50%), and even the much talked about data science (47%) and machine learning (44%) roles. In the midst of these
5 Steps to Salesforce Continuous Delivery that Works for You (No Expertise Required)
Salesforce Admins and developers have enough to deal with day-to-day. Manually managing the development and delivery schedule for your Salesforce team should not be one of them. Unfortunately, the release management process in Salesforce can be a complicated and unpleasant experience for most developers and trailblazers. The distributed team of