Willis

Mike's the brain, I'm the ugly

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on 02-02-2010 at 03:44 PM (111 Views)

Mike and I have known each other on a professional level for a few years now and I've had the good fortune of calling him a friend as of late. He's asked me to come to his website to think and write about the Salesforce System Admin role and see what questions of the world I could possibly help answer. I was hesitant, the stuff that I've seen on these forums is way over my head 90% of the time but I figure I'd take a shot to see what was out there.

My experiences in the role have been comprehensive to say the least. Mike tends to agree that the level of architecture work that I do far exceeds what a system admin's typical role is defined as; this is all conjecture of course because I've never had the same role at any other company.

I wanted to invite questions and comments from the user community. What do you want to hear about? What problems are bugging you? How can I help?

Hopefully through my idle ramblings, I can help shed some light on some problems that you are or will have.

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Natch - 02-03-2010 04:57 PM

Anyone who knows the system well enough in any sysadmin role has the skill necessary to be involved in development and design - from network admins to database admins to the traffic engineers who count cars going along a particular stretch of road...

In my experience, they have a choice to stay within their box and think "that's not my job" or they can find themselves following their instincts and improving things they see need improvement...

That's my $0.02AUD (whatever that converts to these days...)
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Willis - 02-04-2010 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Natch

Anyone who knows the system well enough in any sysadmin role has the skill necessary to be involved in development and design - from network admins to database admins to the traffic engineers who count cars going along a particular stretch of road...

In my experience, they have a choice to stay within their box and think "that's not my job" or they can find themselves following their instincts and improving things they see need improvement...

That's my $0.02AUD (whatever that converts to these days...)

I tend to agree.... The way that our group is structured, you kind of have to handle requests as they come in. "Not my job" isn't a viable excuse... we had a guy that did that. Needless to say, he's not with us any more =)
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