I'm a Salesforce solution architect and delivery leader. Ten years in the ecosystem: consultant at Acumen Solutions, admin and then lead in-house at CoverMyMeds and CrossCountry Mortgage, and now Director of Technical Solutions at TrebleHook, which builds a CRM and project pursuit platform for architecture, engineering, and construction firms.
I lead a team of four consultants, own solution architecture across our implementations, and still build. The mix is deliberate. I don't think you can set technical standards for work you've stopped doing.
Before any of it, I forecasted inventory for a pet products manufacturer and got handed the job of training the sales planners on software that was completely correct and completely useless. That's where most of what I think about this work comes from.
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Thomas Lange is a Salesforce solution architect and delivery leader with ten years in the ecosystem, currently Director of Technical Solutions at TrebleHook. He writes about the gap between systems that are technically correct and systems people actually use. He lives near Charlotte, North Carolina.