Continuous Delivery of Success
The document discusses how the Salesforce platform enables continuous delivery of success through adaptation to change. It defines continuous delivery as ensuring every change can be released at the push of a button to deliver frequently and get fast user feedback. The key elements for success with continuous delivery are having processes for documentation and communication of changes, agility to respond to changes, making changes in small increments, automation of testing and deployments, and overcoming fear of change through regular releases. Specific considerations for continuous delivery on Salesforce include focusing on declarative changes, keeping sandboxes fresh with change sets, using feature flags, automating page layouts and permission sets, and branching for parallel processes.
Continuous Delivery of Success
- 1. Continuous Delivery of Success How the Salesforce platform enables organizations to continuously adapt to change Alex Sutherland Technical Architect alex@crmscience.com @apexsutherland
- 2. Alex Sutherland TechnicalArchitect CRM Science, Inc. alex@crmscience.com @apexsutherland
- 3. • What is it? • Elements for Success • Salesforce platform specifics • Q&A Continuous Delivery
- 4. Continuous Delivery “an approach in which teams ensure that every change to the system is releasable, and that we can release any version at the push of a button. Continuous Delivery aims to make releases boring, so we can deliver frequently and get fast feedback on what users care about.” http://www.thoughtworks.com/continuous-delivery
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- 6. • Salesforce is a Continuous Delivery platform out of the box! • CD can be implemented through incremental change to processes and behaviors • CD can deliver measurable advantages to end users and stakeholders • CD is a discipline that promotes agility and responsiveness Continuous Delivery (CD)
- 7. Elements for Success Continuous Delivery disciplines and mindset
- 8. • Process - documentation and communication of changes • Agility - analysis and development that is responsive to change • Granularity - changes in the smallest increments feasible • Automation - script testing & deployments for complex orgs • Courage - overcome fear of change by doing it regularly Continuous Delivery - Elements for Success
- 9. Salesforce Platform Specifics Practical considerations for Continuous Delivery on the Salesforce platform
- 10. Continuous Delivery on the Salesforce Platform
- 11. • Declarative changes first & most • Keep sandbox(es) fresh, deploy with Change Sets • “Feature flags” (Custom Settings, Boolean fields) • Page Layouts, Record Types, Permission Sets • Branching & parallel process automation Continuous Delivery on the Salesforce Platform
- 12. Plant an improvement in your Salesforce environment every day!
- 13. • ThoughtWorks - Continuous Delivery - @ThoughtWorks • Faster Delivery with Continuous Integration - @botoscloud • Collaborative Salesforce Development - @atlassian Additional Resources
- 14. Q&A
- 15. Thank you