Walled Garden: a software system wherein the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applicants or content. As one might expect, getting to know Salesforce in the pre-lightning era seemed like it might be a step back because we all felt like we were working on an assignment that lived within a closed-source proprietary system, or what is often referred to as a 'walled garden'. Prior to this assignment, our project sprints had been focused on using leading-edge, open-source frameworks and technologies. The six-person team consisted of four full-stack developers and two quality assurance team members. convert an existing CRM solution to Salesforce.get the team up to speed with the Salesforce ecosystem.The goal of the 2015 initiative was two-fold:

However, I did receive a pretty nice T-shirt for attending the session. Other than an introductory session from Salesforce during the 2008 Gartner Application Architecture and Design conference, I really had no depth of knowledge for a CRM product which promised a 'No Software' implementation. I know that sounds extreme, but that was the reality for the six core members of our team who were required to adopt the platform as a part of a corporate objective. The year was 2015 and my feature team was forced to learn Salesforce.

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