Welcome to the home of the DevOps Diaries podcast, brought to you by Gearset. Each week host Jack McCurdy chats to members of the Salesforce community about their experience in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Expect to hear and learn from inspirational stories of personal growth and business success, whilst discovering all the trials, tribulations, and joy that comes with delivering Salesforce for companies of all shapes and sizes.
March 24th 2023
Sam and Jack chat about the documentation that supports a great DevOps process. Tune in to hear about what documents you can add to support your delivery process, why good documentation is needed, and how you can keep documentation relevant in your orgs.
Sam is a DevOps Architect at Gearset helping enterprise customers with their Salesforce delivery processes, and self-confessed PowerShell pro.
March 1st 2023
Jack and Jodi talk about the ever evolving role of the Salesforce Admin. Tune in to hear about how an Admin can rock their role, question everything, deliver value, and pick the path that’s right for you.
Jodi is author of “Rock Your Role as a Salesforce Admin", a long-standing community member, and is a Senior Director for Salesforce Center of Excellence in her organization.
February 15th 2023
Jack and Ben chat about the origins of Salesforce Ben, and how it’s developed to be the media platform it is today. Tune in to hear Ben’s predictions for the ecosystem in the coming year, the kind of content you can expect to see from the recently re-launched SFBen YouTube channel, and his thoughts on where the community should be focussing their learning.
Ben McCarthy is the founder of Salesforce Ben, a non-exec director and strategy advisor, and an ex-Salesforce Consultant.
February 3rd 2023
Jack and Tracy (they/Tracy) talk about burnout in the workplace, what you can do to protect your mental health, and how you can make sure you continue to bring your best self to work. They also chat about working at NASA, self-reflection, and the support of the Salesforce community.
Tracy has 20 years experience in software engineering with a background in computer science, and self-confessed Flownatic.
January 20th 2023
Ian and Jack talk about the functions of a Center of Excellence and how they contribute to successfully managing Salesforce implementations of all shapes and sizes. They chat about what they are, how to manage the CoE itself, and the benefits of having a set of standards to deliver business objectives.
Ian is CEO and co-founder of change intelligence platform elements.cloud, and a long-standing member of the Salesforce Ecosystem with over two-decades experience managing enterprise applications.
January 4th 2023
Francis and Jack discuss the DevOps process map, and how teams can think objectively about their process by relating it back to Salesforce. They also chat about learning mechanisms, metrics, and the theory of constraints.
Francis is a Salesforce MVP, founder of AdmintoArchitect.com, and Co-organizer of community conference London’s Calling.
December 21st 2022
Andy and Jack chat about what it means to be a DevOps Architect at Gearset — how to challenge and change a team’s delivery mindset, testing being an integral part of a safe DevOps process, traffic lights, and how continuous iteration is the name of the game.
Andy Barrick is a DevOps Architect at Gearset, the leading Salesforce DevOps platform. Andy has extensive experience in Salesforce delivery methodologies across ISV’s, end-users, and professional services.
December 14th 2022
Matt and Jack chat about developing high-performing DevOps teams and how mentorship plays a huge part in being successful, breaking things (in a good way!), as well as the importance of patience and giving back as an Engineering leader.
Matt Pieper is Director of Business Systems Engineering at CareRev and has been in the Salesforce ecosystem for 10 years.
December 7th 2022
In this episode Eric and Jack talk about how Salesforce has changed over the years, the relevance of Apex given the changes to the Salesforce platform, the importance of version control, and how a DevOps journey evolves when replacing change sets.
Eric Kintzer is a top 10 contributor on the Salesforce StackExchange, and has a software development career spanning 30+ years.
November 29th 2022
In this episode of the DevOps Diaries Podcast, Jack chats to Vanessa Grant about her journey as a Business Analyst and consultant, how her background in media has contributed to her career, and how delivering projects successfully comes down to great DevOps (even if you don’t realise it).
Vanessa is Associate Principal Consultant at Simplus, a highly regarded Business Analyst in the Salesforce ecosystem, and a hugely valuable community contributor.