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Organisations come in many shapes and forms, so do their needs. Scoping a Power BI Centre of excellence is time sensitive, as nowadays, companies are in constant evolution. The BI journey has many …

To realise the vision of a CoE, a common and fundamental requirement is to have support from your organisation’s leadership. CoE is no different from any other investment within a company: you will…

Power BI CoE is an important concept if it is understood that Power BI implementation does not end when the platform is open and available to your organisation. Implementation starts at this point.…

There are four ways to think about scope when planning for workspaces in the Power BI Service: (1) What is the content? (2) Who’s the content delivered to? (3) How will the content be managed and by whom? (4) How will the content be deployed? This post covers this one aspect of workspace planning an

Learn what the RACI model is, why it matters, and when and how to use it to improve your stakeholder management.

Reflection on how “You have to be technical” during informationals or interviews, especially with lack of context can lead to undesirable outcomes, including gatekeeping and more.

With the increased use of data to drive business decisions, your organization can't just stick its neck in the sand and ignore data privacy anymore.

In this blog post I detail how to to configure and backup Power BI Premium per user or Power BI Premium databases.

Here is a fun way to use Q&A functionality to build a data dictionary in Power BI and add GIF animation to the report page background.

How do you measure the success of your organizations data culture? We dive deep into define measure for success.

I’ve been thinking about problem domains and solution domains a lot lately. I’ve posted on this topic before, but the more I think about it, the more I think I should explore it more. S…

There are some really interesting things on the Power BI release plan. I'd like to call out a few of the top things that I’m most excited about. In this post, I’m focusing on a few release plan items that I think Power BI administrators in particular should be aware of as we head into 2022.

To successfully implement managed self-service business intelligence at any non-trivial scale, you need data governance. To build and nurture a successful data culture, data governance is an essent…

In a recent post I mused about problem domains and solution domains, how they’re context-dependent, and how interesting things tend to happen at the intersection of a problem domain and a sol…

Let’s be clear — we do not intend to bury data governance, but rather to place it within the context of a more comprehensive approach…

Dread of data misuse has spread through all kinds of organizations since the General Data Protection Regulation went live in May. The legislation hasn't done much to lighten the already drab image of

If you’re reading a Power BI-focused blog[1] you’re probably someone who builds solutions. As a BI and data practitioner, you may build reports, datasets, dataflows, databases, or any n…

My recent posts have focused on the importance of understanding both the problem domain and solution domain in which you’re working, the value of operating in both the problem domain and the …

Unless you’re building a solution for your exclusive personal use, you are not the customer. If you are not the customer, you need to invest in understanding the customer’s motivations,…

After Power BI Workspace setup – part 1, which was mainly about creating your workspace, giving it the right name etcetera, this blog will elaborate on workspace permissions. If you did not r…

Back in 2020 I wrote a post titled “Successfully measuring / measuring success” that talked about a problem without meaningfully describing it, because at the time I didn’t believ…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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