Sidu Ponnappa
Sep 23, 2024
For Salesforce implementation partners, the holy trifecta — delivering projects on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards — has conventionally been quite difficult.
Despite best efforts, many teams are bogged down by daily operational issues, lengthy change request cycles, and extensive testing phases that delay releases and slow time to value for clients.
Teams often spend a disproportionate amount of time firefighting daily operational issues, from troubleshooting bugs to managing integrations to handling ad hoc customer requests. These necessary but time-consuming tasks divert resources away from higher-value development work, impacting overall project velocity.
Also, accommodating change requests is a normal part of any Salesforce project, but long turnaround times can be a major source of friction. When it takes days or weeks to scope, develop, test, and deploy even minor changes, it not only frustrates clients but also creates a growing backlog that puts timelines at risk.
An enterprise client I was talking to recently saw three key areas where realfast Vayu could make a massive impact for their team:
Reducing the time spent on daily operational issues
Accelerating the turnaround time for change requests, to keep projects moving forward
Streamlining testing cycles, so releases can happen faster without sacrificing quality
Comprehensive testing is critical for ensuring the quality and reliability of Salesforce implementations, but it's also time-intensive. Developing and maintaining a quality unit test suite is a substantial effort.
That's exactly why we built our agentic platform Vayu — to give Salesforce teams a fundamentally faster, smarter, and more agile way of working.
Now, I know what you might be thinking:
"This sounds great, but implementing an agentic platform must be a huge lift."
But the way we've worked out the collaboration format, it really isn't.
The alternative is to keep doing things the way they've always been done, and just hope that somehow, magically, you'll get different results. And in my experience, that's a recipe for frustration and burnout.
With Vayu, yes, there's an initial investment of time and effort to onboard the platform onto a specific salesforce implementation project. But that investment pays off tenfold in the efficiency and agility gains you'll see down the line.
Vayu will help you break free from the operational quicksand. It's an orbital shift for project velocity and delivery times.
If this resonates, just reach out at sidu@realfast.ai. Would love to show you what Vayu can do!