Category: Backyard Operations

Experiments in bringing Salesforce home, from managing backyard chickens to solving everyday problems with unnecessarily sophisticated technology.

3 chickens looking at a salesforce dashboard

by Kristi Brown August 12, 2026 0

Backyard Operations Force for Fun

Backyard Operations: My Chickens Didn’t Need a Dashboard

I built dashboards, collected sensor data, and tracked my chickens. Then I stopped looking. Turns out, the most useful thing Backyard Operations taught me was to start with the problem, not the technology.

by Kristi Brown April 29, 2025 0

🧰 Backyard Operations, Part 2: Setting Up the Org + Building the Data Model

Fresh chickens, fresh dirt, fresh org

by Kristi Brown April 23, 2025 0

Backyard Operations Force for Fun

🐔 Backyard Operations: Chickens, Gardens & CRM, Oh My!

What do chickens, garden beds, and Salesforce have in common? Apparently… me. Join me for Backyard Operations—my newest side project where I’m integrating IoT sensors, CRM Analytics, and a whole lot of fluffy chaos into one nerdy, hands-on experiment. Follow along as I turn coop life into a Salesforce app. 🌱🐔💻