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title: The Ops Guide to Cleaning a Salesforce Dumpster Fire
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# [The Ops Guide to Cleaning a Salesforce Dumpster Fire](https://www.arovy.com/resources/blog/the-ops-guide-to-cleaning-a-salesforce-dumpster-fire)

 Written by [Admin](https://www.arovy.com/resources/blog/author/admin) | Oct 26, 2023, 4:00:00 AM

 

#### THE OPS GUIDE TO

 

# **Cleaning a Salesforce Dumpster Fire**

Learn how to extinguish the flames of a messy Org in **90 days or less** + find out how to maintain it for long-term success.

 

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### Inside this guide, you'll learn:

- Tell-tale signs: How to identify you have a Salesforce dumpster fire
- Where to start: 5 areas to develop and manage your cleanup
- Step-by-step guide: How to maintain your Org after your clean up
- Must-have tools: Top tools for cleaning your org smarter, not harder
- Key resources: Communities and Salesforce resources you need to keep in your toolkit
- The stories: Ops leaders share their own personal dumpster fire stories

## **Dumpster Fire Stories from the Pros**

#### Keith Jones

#### "Endless Loop of Account Reassignments"

 

| In an attempt to program a hand-off of ownership on accounts between users with a combination of process builder & distribution engine, I inadvertently created a loop where the system was assigning and reassigning records between the SDRs and BDRs over and over again. **It. Broke. Everything.** | Oh and the best part. In my hubris and overconfidence that what I had built was going to work, I activated the process and fucked off to lunch. It was while I was away from my laptop when I got the text message that accounts were just looping through SDR assignments endlessly. **It was a great day.** |
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