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If we were to Google “What are best practices?” we will find an answer similar to “commercial or professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective.”
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If you don’t like Google, that’s fine. You can Bing, Yahoo, Duck, of Duck Go. Google just works better as a verb.
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I did not attempt to put them into an acronym.
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I say this as a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
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The data mapping document records source-to-target field-level mappings and transformation rules.
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Transformations take the most effort and are the most time-intensive parts of a data migration project, except for (maybe) the data analysis, but data analysis is considered part of requirements gathering not the data migration build.
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Not necessarily because of bad data.
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Salesforce does have a native backup solution; it backs up all your data to .csv. If you are serious about data backups, I would not rely on this as your only backup, because working with .csv is just too cumbersome. See : https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=admin_exportdata.htm&type=5 .
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Okay, so technically, this is not entirely true. See https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000004037&type=1 . In addition, there are several third-party products on the market that can be used to perform full org backups and restores.
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A brand-new system that is not currently in use. In this case, the rollback plan is usually to keep using the legacy system.
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In addition to developer unit testing. This is when developers test their own code as part of the build cycle.
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A change request.
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Masri, D. (2019). The Six Attributes of a Good Data Migration. In: Developing Data Migrations and Integrations with Salesforce. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4209-4_4
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