E15 The importance of Curiosity as a Salesforce Architect with Paul Battisson

This episode's guest 'Paul Battisson' If you are interested in transitioning from a Salesforce Developer to an Architect or COO role. If you want to awaken your inner curiosity and think more like an architect then I think you are going to get a lot of value out of this conversation with Paul.   At Salesforce Posse, we interview influencers in the Salesforce ecosystem so that we can gain a better understanding of how to excel in a career path from a Salesforce Admin or Developer to an Architect. In this conversation, I talk to Paul Battisson he is a veteran of the UK Salesforce scene and he started out as a developer at FinancialForce. He has a wealth of experience from transitioning from a Developer to an Architect and now he's COO at Cloud Galacticos he's also an author of several Salesforce Books.  Watch online here:  Subscribe to the podcast at: https://www.salesforceposse.com/ Website: https://www.cloudgalacticos.co.uk/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pbattisson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbattisson/  Amazon 'Mastering Apex Programming: A developer's guide to learning advanced techniques and best practices for building robust Salesforce applications' https://amzn.to/3HTt6f9  Amazon 'Learning Salesforce Development with Apex: Write, Run and Deploy Apex Code with Ease (English Edition)' https://amzn.to/3HZeqLl Sponsored by AdminToArchitect.com Salesforce Training 00:00 Welcome 01:22 The British Weather 03:17 Paul Battisson's journey in the Salesforce eco-system 08:35 The Fake Cloud continues in AWS, Azure & GCP 09:50 From Salesforce Developer to Architect 12:07 The importance of Curiosity as an Architect 15:15 You can't learn everything in Salesforce 17:06 Transitioning from Salesforce Architect to COO 19:27 Be Curious; Research, Try it and Break it 10 times. 24:30 When you have a lot of experience, people can lean on you too much 25:30 How Salesforce Roles transition as companies/Orgs increase in size 27:31 All Salesforce Admins make Architectural Decisions, they just don't know it 29:00 The barrier to entry into Salesforce is low, just remember what it used to be 33:00 You are a God and you can go in two directions... 36:56 Moving your Salesforce org from the evolved to design & planned 37:57 Your Salesforce org is like a human body 39:25 Salesforce User Experience 40:08 Tips for moving your Salesforce org from the evolved to design & planned 42:30 Observe, Orient, Describe, Act 42:51 Use Asynchronous Processes 47:55 If you could go back in time and give yourself some when and what would it be? 50:00 Failure is an amazing learning experience 52:15 Be Curious and be willing to break things - stop and think