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I knew the end of Agile was coming when we started using hockey sticks.

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At the 2022 PASS Community Data Summit this November, I’m thrilled to be co-presenting a full-day pre-conference session with the one and only Melissa Coates [blog | Twitter | LinkedIn]. We’ll be p…

The tenant settings in the admin portal of the Power BI Service are incredibly important. The tenant settings include a wide-ranging number of things that significantly affect the user experience. It’s really important to manage the tenant settings effectively. In this post I’m going to talk about t

Hey Power BI administrators - Have you noticed there's a new tenant setting for user experience experiments? It allows the Power BI service to conduct ...

Data is the fuel that drives any modern organization’s growth. Yet, most businesses struggle to appropriately harness and use their data. Rather than taking an all-encompassing view of the data at their disposal, many businesses keep data siloed away in different departments. As teams attempt to navi...

So today Chris Finlan said a joke that I was posting a lot of positive things about my life as a PM, and so in this post I will explore a recent failure that I had in my career and what I learned. …

This article focuses on communication tips in Microsoft teams to create a successful Power BI support channel when deploying in your org

In the last few years, the Business Intelligence (BI) world has been moving towards self-service BI. As expected, several vendors created tools empowering r

This article describes the differences between report-based tools and model-based tools. Because Power BI is a model-based tool and not a report-based tool,

Learn how Power BI prototyping and sharing is about rapid exploration of user requirements.

Learn how Power BI advanced data model management is about empowering creators with advanced data modeling and publishing capabilities.

Learn how Power BI advanced data preparation is about improving the reach and reusability of dataflows.

How do you learn a new skill? How do you go from beginner to intermediate to expert… or at least from knowing very little to knowing enough that other people start to think of you as an exper…

Requests limits and allocations

Here we’ll lay out a common framework (which we’ll refer to as “C-Frame”) for managing Power Platform solution development. This approach is best suited for solutions that classify as important or critical according to the Environmental Architecture Model found in the Power Platform Adoption Framewo

A Center of Excellence can be tool or topic-specific. In this blog, we apply a CoE framework to focus on Power BI and collaboration in an organization.

Discover how Microsoft created new training methods on analyzing data with Microsoft Power BI to help them make data-driven decisions.

Microsoft’s drive to make more and better data-driven decisions is fueled by analyzing data with Microsoft Power BI.But how is it getting employees to analyze their data and build their own …

In this digital age, data is a strategic asset, and creating a modern data catalog is key to finding and connecting siloed enterprise data, which enables people to ask important questions and gain business insights. Microsoft used feedback from end users to develop an intuitive data catalog that incorporates discoverability, traceability, and access management. To gain adoption for the catalog, the team generated excitement through a structured marketing campaign that used internal social channels, posters and digital signage.

A big data visualization solution in Microsoft Power BI summarizes and tracks performance against business objectives while Microsoft Core Services Engineering and Operations drives results. This solution refines large amounts of data into accurate and actionable insights for the entire organization. It improves satisfaction, enables growth, and drives operational effectiveness on Microsoft’s road to digital transformation.

The importance of empathy in stimulating a data culture, one where others want to participate.

Part of the the series: Doing Power BI the Right Way When you sign-up for the Power BI service at PowerBI.com (this address redirects to App.PowerBI.com), use establish a tenant for your organ…

If you are designing solutions with Power BI, or using Power BI along with other data platform components, to be used in a large organization; how should you get started and what are the best pract…

When I began my software career back in the 90s, one of the software-adjacent skills I discovered I needed was risk management. When you’re building anything non-trivial, it’s likely th…

My last post focused primarily on a problem that can arise when there’s a central team that sits between a team responsible for delivering solutions, and teams that have problems to be solved…

An introduction to the Power BI implementation planning series of articles.

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