Salesforce Down? Must be May.
Salesforce
Salesforce and Reuters have put together a mini-series of podcasts around resilience - something we should all be interested in given the current pandemic challenges.
Against the backdrop of unprecedented disruption and transformation, Salesforce has launched Resilience Recast, a five-part podcast series beginning Thursday, April 22. The podcast, created in collaboration with Reuters, explores how business leaders are rethinking their strategies to build, re-skill and innovate for the future of work and society.
The Salesforce acquisition is going to lose Slack at least one customer - ServiceNow are switching to Microsoft Teams. While this might make sense for the leadership, those working at the coalface tend to be a little tribal about their tooling and might not take kindly to being switched for what they see as political reasons. It will be interesting to see if this kind of thing is an anomaly or a trend.
Continuing with the Slack theme, HackerNoon have an interesting Slack App concept to marry up Slack and Blogging - Slogging. The premise is simple - if you see something in a Slack channel that you think would make a good blog post, you execute the slogging command and it generates a draft post on guess where? That’s right, HackerNoon.
Salesforce is integrating sustainability into it’s supply chain - suppliers will now have to maintain a scorecard or pay a remediation fee.
Marc Benioff says Salesforce is considering the purchase of a ranch or similar property for team and culture building. Interesting that he goes on to say that Disney was a big inspiration - I always assumed Disney was a big inspiration for Trailhead, but if not, they might be doubling down on the characters etc!
And as it’s May, Salesforce suffered an outage - NA14 in 2016, Permageddon in 2019 and now in 2021 we have a yet to be nicknamed event involving DNS. Like Permageddon, this outage was triggered by a change/fix applied by Salesforce - maybe they should reschedule everything but emergency fixes for April or June for the next five years.
Basecamp
Basecamp are in the news for all the wrong reasons, after posting an announcement that bans political discussions in the company org, removed peer feedback and reflection on past decisions, and did away with committees. It’s hard not to see the announcement as telling the staff that their opinions aren’t wanted, and given the activist stance that DHH has taken on an awful lot of issues in and round tech, it’s not a good look. The Verge suggests that most of the discussion that is being shut down is actually about the company itself. This appears to have led to them losing a third of their staff, which has to sting.
Me
A blog about us not being done with re-organising ourselves for remote work, not done at all.
I added second generation package commands to my Salesforce CLI GUI (or rather exposed the ones I created ages ago as I felt I’d given them enough of a workout!)