Software Architect Mentorship

What do Salesforce Program Architects do? 

Harpal works for Salesforce in an Advisory services role. Salesforce Program Architects are some of the industry’s most experienced Salesforce technology specialists. They can plan a client's Salesforce solution roll-out, oversee com​​plex deployments, improve end-user adoption, and a lot more. Their goal is to see clients get maximum busıness value from Salesforce.

The Vision

We lead with business value, focusing on pragmatism, and delivering via minimum viable products. Learn the philosophy, the approach, and methodology that Salesforce uses for Enterprise Architecture. ​

1. Video Link
2. Killer EA questions

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Need mentoring help?

Suggested Reading

• ​Learn Mentoring Fundamental
• The power of Mentorship

Define your goal, moon-shot dream role?

• 1-year, 3-year and 5-year goals
• List your childhood mentors, significant life events
• Who’s work inspires you the most and why?
• Given the chance, whose the one person you’d like to meet? What will you ask them?

​Call me when you have these figured out. harpalkochar@gmail.com 

Key Dimensions of our work

Which dimension would you like to work on?
Which ones is your strongest?

Relevant Job Descriptions

• Platform Architect
  
• Technical Architect
  
• Citizen Developer

Orals Coaching: Up your soft skills, EQ

Good pre-read article

Moments of reflection

• What are our obligations to our clients, product teams
• How can we over-communicate, manage the patterns?
• Plan executive summaries emails, communicate at a macro level
• Collect and provide data and facts: carry more weight that ‘gut’ feelings
• Dress for success
• Think through ice-breaker topics to smooth out communication with executives
• Don’t be afraid to ask for help, or say ‘I don’t know, but I will find out …’
• Be prescriptive when sharing your point of view
• Be ready to move past theory into practical application
• Be a Public speaking God:
  • Give a short talk on a subject every few days 1:1, or in a group setting
  • Record yourself present, watch it multiple times
• Lean in on the Salesforce architecture community
  • Define your goto team, stick with them, meet them often
  • Be available to help them in their projects and likewise expect help from them.
• Pay it forward :-): Become a mentor to a newer team mate, think like one

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Architects Certifications List

Application Architects  

1. Application Builder
2. Sharing and Visibility 
3. Data Architecture and Management: 
4. Platform Developer 1 

System Architects

1. Dev Lifecycle and Deployment 
2. Identity and Access Management 
3. Integration Architecture 
4. Platform Developer 1

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Salesforce Integration patterns ​

When you implement Salesforce, you frequently need to integrate it with other applications. Although each integration scenario is unique, there are common requirements and issues that developers must resolve.
This document describes strategies (in the form of patterns) for these common integration scenarios. Each pattern describes the design and approach for a particular scenario rather than a specific implementation. In this document you’ll find:

• A number of patterns that address key “archetype” integration scenarios
• A selection matrix to help you determine which pattern best fits your scenario

Integration tips and best practices

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