TL;DR
If every new automation feels like Jenga, your page loads crawl, and admins dread deploying to production, it’s time for a structured cleanup—not another quick fix.
1 Your “One-Click” Reports Now Require Five Tabs and a Prayer
When users export to Excel every time they need insight, your underlying data model has drifted. Duplicate fields, mismatched picklists, and hard-coded formulas force workarounds that bury the truth in spreadsheets.
Fix:
- Inventory all report-type objects.
- Normalize picklists and dedupe fields.
- Introduce declarative roll-ups (or DLRS) so users trust in-platform metrics again.
2 Page Loads Exceed Three Seconds (and Patience)
Complex Lightning pages with 20+ components and legacy JavaScript buttons throttle performance. Every extra second slashes adoption and frustrates power users.
Fix:
- Use Lightning App Builder’s performance analysis to flag slow components.
- Replace hacked-in JS buttons with Lightning Web Components (LWCs).
- Enable “Enable Secure and Fast Loading” for guest users on Experience Cloud sites.
3 Every Deployment Is a Friday-Night Adventure
If your team has a superstitious “no deploy before holidays” rule, you’re living with fragile metadata dependencies and zero rollback strategy.
Fix:
- Implement a source-control-first workflow (Copado, Gearset, or Git + SFDX).
- Add scratch-org-based CI tests to catch breaking changes early.
- Enforce static code analysis (PMD, Clayton) in pull requests.
4 Automation Limits Hit Before Noon
Hitting CPU timeouts, SOQL 101, or Too Many DML Rows means redundant triggers, unbulkified Flows, and chatty Process Builders.
Fix:
- Consolidate multiple Process Builders/Flows per object into a single record-triggered Flow.
- Refactor triggers into a handler framework with future methods or Queueables.
- Turn on “Critical Updates: Flow Trigger Order” to manage execution sequence.
5 Admins Spend More Time on Hotfixes Than Roadmap Items
Tech debt snowballs: every urgent patch steals hours from strategic features like self-service portals or AI insights.
Fix:
- Schedule a quarterly Org Health Audit (metadata usage, field counts, code coverage).
- Track tech-debt stories in Jira with story points, just like features.
- Celebrate debt burndown in sprint demos to keep leadership bought in.
The Three-Step Cloud Nimbus Rescue Plan
- Discovery Call (30 min) – zero-cost walkthrough of pain points and performance metrics.
- Blueprint Sprint (2 weeks) – architecture diagram, risk matrix, and ROI model.
- Iterative Delivery (2–6 sprints) – targeted refactors, CI/CD rollout, and admin enablement.
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