A highly trending buzz word around Power BI is Data Culture. Growing, improving, and establishing a data culture is essential, and thanks to Melissa Coates' excellent Power BI Adoption Roadmap, we have a great framework on what to look for. That being said... How do you define and measure success for it? Can you even create measurable KPI's around it?

Power BI adoption roadmap: Data culture - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

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The guys have some more fun and look to what can we can look forward to in new Power BI features, or more so what they want to see become reality for Power BI in the future. 

We all know that Microsoft heavily relies on the ideas.powerbi.com website for future development of features and services, and it counts the votes on those ideas. The guys pick their wish list. 

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Happy Thanksgiving! 

The guys talk about their experience learning Power BI and what options are available for users nowadays. While the guys had more self-training, what does formal vs. informal training mean in the Power BI world, and what should people consider? Do you need both formal and self-taught? What about scenario based?

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Microsoft recently announced the Power Platform Release Wave v2 for the upcoming months, and we could not wait to get our hands on it! The guys talk about what are the biggest game changers, and what we think is going to change the space. 

Read the release wave here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2021wave2/power-bi/planned-features

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It's Draft Day! But not just any draft, the guys are taking the best of the best from the Power BI service and compete with each other for the best features. 

The Goal: take from all the Power BI service features that will best enable you to adopt and distribute Power BI to an organization. We are choosing from Goals to Export CSV, 12 rounds of arguing and picks? We would love your input on who won, just go to PowerBI.Tips on LinkedIn and vote!

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The guys talk about the November 2021 of Power BI, along with the next user group schedule among others. 

The big topic: Paginated Reports have been around for a long time, even before Power BI. That being said, what is the role and where does Power BI Paginated Reports fit in the ecosystem and should users use and learn it?

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Let's face it: Some of what we do in building reports can be mundane and repetitive. Other items we may miss that will effect the quality of the report. Regardless of what you do, or how you do it, don't you need a checklist? The guys discuss what goes in their own checklist for building a report, from the scope to the publish.

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The guys talk through out of all the tools available in Power BI, why can Power Query be the least known? It is a POWERFUL component of the Power BI Skill Toolset, and the guys share their experience, the use cases, and what role in plays in the Power BI World.

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What is the role of the Help Desk for Power BI? How should they behave, and why are there no templates for Business Intelligence Help Desks (looking at you Jira)?

The guys dive into what they consider an untapped component of BI Projects, and where a Help Desk stands in regards to importance of any Power BI Solution, along with why the lack of resources for BI Projects and Help Desk providers.

They start by sharing their favorite announcement from Microsoft Ignite. 

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The guys are rounding out their series on Power BI Governance with Part 3 - what are the challenges involved, how do you get people on board, and the overall components of running a Governance Program. As always, we are using the Power BI Adoption Roadmap document (link below).

Link to document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/powerbi-adoption-roadmap-governance#governance-challenges

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