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Play by Play: Strategies for Successful Salesforce DX Migration and Adoption

by Scott Wells and Don Robins

In this course, you’ll learn how to guide a team to successfully migrate and adopt Salesforce DX.

What you'll learn

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play By Play: Strategies for Successful Salesforce DX Migration and Adoption, Scott Wells and Don Robins demonstrate options for migrating existing metadata into a Salesforce DX project. Learn strategies for isolating, extracting, converting, and managing your products’ distinct Salesforce metadata for use with Salesforce DX. By the end of this course, you’ll have gained some valuable insight into using Salesforce DX with version control, the multiple features available with SFDX and the CLI, and how to leverage the power of repeatable automation routines in your own Salesforce development.

About the authors

Scott Wells has been developing software professionally for nearly a quarter of a century and as a hobbyist since receiving his first computer, a Commodore VIC-20, in the early '80s. Scott is the developer of Illuminated Cloud, a powerful and modern tool for Salesforce development and is also the Chief Technology Officer for Sirono, a provider of healthcare financial management solutions built on the Salesforce platform. He has previously held positions as Chief Architect for Zilliant, another S... more

Don Robins is a well known Salesforce MVP, instructor, author, and speaker. A custom business application developer for more decades than he cares to admit, he focuses on Salesforce technical instruction and knowledge sharing. Certified as a Platform II Developer and an award winning Salesforce Instructor, he's presented and taught at annual Dreamforce conferences since 2010. He delivers Salesforce developer classes and workshops around the US and abroad, and manages a team of instructors ... more

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