Presentation from Salesforce.org Higher Ed Summit 2018 by: Amy Cox, Chris Nickell, and Haley Rogers. Bellevue University took on the enormous challenge of implementing Salesforce, as a campus wide initiative, and accomplished this in a little over 13 months... here's what we learned! At the start of the project, we were overwhelmed and under resourced. As we continued on our Journey, we discovered the importance of specific groups and instrumental leaders that we leveraged to overcome some pretty large obstacles. This built some of the most effective Team Building experience we have ever been privy to, with deliberate and effective techniques that were deployed to keep motivation and production high. Moving through the integration challenges, working with vendors in a new capacity, building sub groups in charge of the validation and migration processes, custom object builds (State Authorization Object) as well as building a repetitive and intense User Acceptance Testing, complete with a Bug Tracker object, we accomplished our goal and launched with very little delay and a huge amount of success! Not to mention the simultaneous development of the training materials, and then the added challenge of training the 312 users identified for day one launch. Join us on a Journey to review our challenges and success so that you can learn from our experience. Watch a recording of this presentation: https://youtu.be/xlViFi4Vlf0