Laurel Jones is a Senior Product Manager at Amazon. Working for the Amazon Air team, Laurel is blazing trails for women in a male-dominated field. Laurel operates in the heart of the technology that is critical to Amazon’s success. Tune in to find out how Laurel is pioneering women in technology initiatives, and the pillars for their success!
In this episode Laurel chats to Jack about her experience as a Gearset DevOps Leader. Laurel shares how she has developed Salesforce skills from scratch, how she’s flourished in her career with a DevOps mindset, and how that’s allowed her to bring success to each of her customers as a consultant, as well as for end-clients.
We get technical in this episode, too. Laurel dives into the nuances of working backwards from the end result to figure out what time and resources are needed across projects. She shares her experience and advice for working with Digital Experiences (aka Communities), and how design thinking can foster wonderful results.
Learn more:
- Deploy Salesforce metadata changes with confidence and say goodbye to change sets: https://grst.co/3WJmVSv
- Every automation tool needed for Salesforce DevOps: https://grst.co/4fKZMIg
- Salesforce DevOps priorities for 2024: https://grst.co/3U3YMXb
- How to deploy Salesforce communities: https://grst.co/4aYwjYU
- Overcome challenges with distributed teams: https://grst.co/3SjVv4S
- Salesforce CI/CD best practices: https://grst.co/3U0pboH
- Why we need purpose built solutions for Salesforce DevOps: https://grst.co/48B8BQV
- Gearset DevOps Leaders: https://grst.co/48Bzx2W
About DevOps Diaries: Salesforce DevOps Advocate 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. New episodes bi-weekly on YouTube as well as on your preferred podcast platform.
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About Gearset: Gearset is the leading Salesforce DevOps platform, with powerful solutions for metadata and CPQ deployments, CI/CD, automated testing, sandbox seeding and backups. It helps Salesforce teams apply DevOps best practices to their development and release process, so they can rapidly and securely deliver higher-quality projects. Get full access to all of Gearset's features for free with a 30-day trial: https://grst.co/48miCAz
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:31 Laurel’s experience as a Gearset DevOps Leader
1:48 Why Laurel started using Gearset
2:19 Amazon’s adoption of Gearset
4:14 Laurel’s career background
10:05 Is there a best process for projects?
12:52 Main considerations when deploying Salesforce Communities/Digital Experiences
21:39 The journey to CI/CD
27:00 Laurel’s UX/UI background and how it’s shaped her roles
34:44 Understanding user needs at Amazon
38:11 Laurel’s experience as a DEI leader in a male-dominated field
44:48 Results Laurel’s seen advocating for women at Amazon AIR
47:27 An important lesson learned
48:42 Final pearl of wisdom from Laurel