Presented in the Admin Theater at Boston World Tour on April 7, 2016.

1. How to Prepare Yourself and Your Org for a Salesforce
Release
Ted Hazard
Salesforce Solution Consultant & Administrator
thazard@unum.com
@hazardme

2. Ted Hazard
Salesforce Solution Consultant & Admin
Maine User Group Co-Leader
Certified Admin, Developer, and
Sales Cloud Consultant

3. Have a Plan

4. Concentrate
You Can Do This – Music Helps

5. Trust.Salesforce.com

6. Build Your Own Calendar
Start with Release Date and
Plan Backwards
Placeholders
Don’t Forget to Communicate
S M T W Th F S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Sandbox
8 9
Notes
10 11 12
FYI
13 14
15 16
Testing
17 18 19 20
Notes
21
22 23
Blogs,
etc…
24 25 26
CFL or
UG
27 28
29 30 31
Internal
Review
1 2 3
Testing
4
5 6 7
Remind
8 9
Training
10 11
Summer
12
Clear
13 14 15 16 17 18

7. Release Notes

8. Release Notes Review
There’s More!
• Data.com
• Customization
• Security & Identity
• Deployment
• Development
• Marketing
• General Enhancements
• Critical Updates
• Doc Content
• Other Salesforce
Products
Must Read
• Sales
• Service
• Customization
• Analytics
• General Enhancements
• Critical Updates
• Chatter
Will Read
• Mobile
• Files
• Search
• Security & Identity
• Deployment
• Development
Would Like to Read
• Lightning Experience
• Financial Services
Cloud
• Communities
Won’t Read
• Doc Content
• Other Salesforce
Products
• Health Cloud
• Data.com
• Marketing
Note Sections
• Lightning Experience
• Financial Services
Cloud
• Health Cloud
• Sales
• Analytics
• Service
• Mobile
• Communities
• Chatter
• Files
• Search

9. Delegate Community Blogs & Podcasts
Learn & Communicate

10. Tools to Organize
Evernote Trello

11. Feature Impact Edition Stay on Target
Focus

12. Test Known Issues Keep Learning
You’ve Got Issues!
And So Do I
Sandbox
Developers
Test Code
Release
Weekend
Activate
Slowly
Known
Issues Site
Report
Your Issues
Trailhead
Module
Certification
Quiz
Customer For
Life
Release
Readiness
Retrospective
Blogs and
Podcasts
User Groups

13. thank y u