
SFBA Academy Highlights
The SFBA Academy creates a shorter path to success for Salesforce business analysts by filling knowledge gaps at the intersection of Salesforce and business analysis.

Revealing Architecture Diagrams at TrailheaDX 2021
The salesforce architects team has blazed a trail for continuously improving architect diagrams with templates and components organized in a simple framework.

Blazing a New Process Mapping Trail
Salesforce has blazed a new trail into process mapping, going further into making process maps easy for stakeholders to follow and highlighting their benefits to architects and business analysts.

Process Mapping Trailhead Highlights
Process Mapping for Business Analysts puts engaged stakeholders on the trail to better understand and improve processes through mapping.

Thoughtful Process Mapping
Tailoring each diagram in a process map for a specific audience using their terms engages stakeholders, streamlines process map review, and deepens understanding of the process model.

Creating Stories in the System Landscape
Adding external roles to stories makes them fit with services in a system landscape. Adding conditions increases the stories’ coverage of different paths a process can take.

Artifacts and the System Landscape
Artifacts offer a clear, complete picture of a solution’s design, engaging stakeholders to improve the design through meaningful feedback.

The Process Map and User Story Tango
Showing a process as a series of stories in a process diagram gives stakeholders a clear view of the process flow. Organizing diagrams into a process map makes it easy to find one story out of hundreds.

Modeling the Requirements Elicitation Process
Modeling the requirements elicitation process paves the way to correct, complete and precise requirements.

Modeling Overview: Demonstrating and Adapting Design
Models elicit high-quality user feedback to improve the design and development of a solution.

Design Overview: Fitting a Solution to Requirements
Design brings creativity into the software development process to ensure that a solution appeals to users while fulfilling business requirements.

Elements Academy Highlights
Elements Academy stresses good business analysis and solution design. It shows how to put them in action to develop a solution that fits business needs.

Business Analyst and Application Architect Roles
Business analysts and application architects both understand requirements captured and curated by the business analyst. The architect designs solutions to fulfill the requirements.

Hat Stacking in the Customer’s Shoes
A hat stacker can better manage their roles by understanding and appreciating business needs.

Keeping Salesforce Admins Awesome
Salesforce administrators can learn new skills to adopt new awesome roles in the changing Salesforce ecosystem.

Four Business Analyst Misconceptions
Good business analysts understand, clarify and improve business requirements, keeping them connected to business value from discovery to deployment.

Mining Business Rules
Business rule discovery pays off with clarity into how and why a company makes decisions, processes data, and operates within constraints.

Diving Deeper Into Requirements
Asking the right questions at the right time clarifies requirements, leading to a successful solution.

Curating Business Needs Into Requirements
Curating clearly valuable business needs and ideas into requirements results in a solution meeting or exceeding business objectives.

How a Business Analyst Can Motivate Stakeholders
Encouraging stakeholders to contribute and appreciating all contributions leads to a complete solution that meets or exceeds the business needs.