Discovery workshops, solution kits and success criteria
How a B2C solution architect runs discovery across Commerce, service and marketing: who defines requirements, which artifacts align executives, how solution kits and value maturity assessments feed a phased plan, and which requirement risks to document before design.
Given a scenario, determine how to facilitate a successful customer engagement (agenda, plan, gather requirements, document, and design).
~8 min read · 14 practice questions
What the exam expects
- Plan a requirements workshop: decide who defines the requirements for a use case that crosses B2C Commerce, Agentforce Service and Marketing Cloud Engagement, and who builds it.
- Choose the discovery artifact for the audience: a business capability map, the Retail Operations Canvas or a value maturity assessment.
- Use a Salesforce solution kit as a planning and design input, and add the checks it recommends to the plan before implementation.
- Recommend a phased plan: proof of concept, prioritized use cases with confirmed success criteria, and an end-state architecture with options.
- Document requirement risks surfaced in discovery (inventory forecasting, required fields, API and storage growth, feed timing) and set the agenda for a technical design workshop.
Key terms: solution kit (reference material for one cross-product use case); business capability map (drivers, capabilities and product positioning); Retail Operations Canvas (a visual of a retailer's operational steps); value maturity assessment (a workshop rating readiness to realize value); success metrics (quantifiable measures of progress).
Key facts
- Detail
- Required products, workflow, connecting technology, configurations, design considerations, resources
- Detail
- Business owners and UX from Commerce, Service and Marketing
- Detail
- Consider an environmental audit with an Engagement account executive
- Detail
- Follow the SMART framework
- Detail
- Service Cloud requires last name
- Detail
- More than one million SKUs: import with delta files
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- Activation and testing on the primary instance group; data collected on production only
Sources for this section (6)
- Solution Kitstrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Back-in-Stock Kithelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Reference Implementationshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Capabilities Assessmentwww.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Design Considerationshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Implementing Einsteintrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Why does the back-in-stock kit suggest an Einstein recommendations strategy for out-of-stock product pages?
- When should the Engagement catalog be imported using delta files?
- Why does a business value map require business objectives to be SMART?
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