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Preparation Overview


One of the best investments you can make in your Salesforce CRM success is to have a clear plan. Just as you wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint, you don’t want to start with Salesforce CRM without a plan. A plan will help you to communicate with everyone, do things in the right order, identify key resources, and keep a clear end date in everyone’s mind.


The following topics are relevant to project preparation:


  • Picking your project team
  • Administrator qualities and training
  • Your vision and goals
  • Business process definition and mapping
  • Reports
  • User notification

  • You can use the worksheets in the MySalesforce Workbook to come up with and document your decisions for these topics. Download the document and treat it as a work in progress that you return to as you complete your implementation.