Explicit Measures Podcast

Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss an article by Umesh Bhatt that challenges the norm around building our reports as projects and when does the project end? Should we moving to agile, or should we focusing on our reports as products within the organization?

https://medium.com/@8thcross/data-product-operating-model-a885a754c476

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So - slightly HUGE announcements by the Microsoft team around Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and generally what we do on a daily basis. Mike, Seth, & Tommy react to the major features you do not want to miss.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/empower-power-bi-users-with-microsoft-fabric-and-copilot/

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-november-2023-feature-summary/

https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/microsoft-fabric-november-2023-update/

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Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive into System Oversight in the Adoption Roadmap. What it means, how much enablement, and how much protection in your tenant.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/powerbi-adoption-roadmap-business-alignment

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Managed Self Service in Power BI in Enterprise - Mike, Seth, & Tommy tackle the pressing questions around the balance of control and agility in BI, the real-world implications of dataset certification, and the strategies for fostering a robust data culture.

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We had a ton of mailbags we needed to get off our chests! Quick Shots on the following:

Can Data Warehouses and Reports Only Pull New Data Instead of Full Refreshes?

I have observed that my data warehouse goes out and grabs a massive chunk of data from source databases, and brings it in to the DW and overwrites 99% of the exact same data that is already in the warehouse. Then my on-prem power bi reports do the same thing. Bring in a mass of data from the DW, 99% of it was brought in yesterday. This feels wrong. Is there anyway to just grab the *new* data? Is this the way it has to be, or is it a bad *data smell*? Being relatively new, I don't know how, but think there must be a better way.

Thanks for your great efforts, I have been listening to your podcast for more than 9 months now.

I wish if you could cover support for PBI Reports Server (Tweeks, tricks, hints, ... etc).

My company is hesitant to load its data to the cloud, we installed PBI RS and currently use it for our internal use.

This is a data culture thing

Topic: Power BI (Now Fabric) Workspace creation policy for self service Power BI

What should be the organisational policy for creating Power BI workspaces in order to support Self Service Power BI within the organisation?

The factors that affect this are

1) To prevent the explosion of number of workspaces

1.1) Is it a problem if number of workspaces increase exponentially? Why is it a problem? We don’t worry about the explosion of number of child folders in a organisational shared drive, so why is this a problem in Power BI workspaces?

2) Only 1 App can be published in a workspace, therefore, even a single team will need multiple workspaces contributing to the explosion of number of workspaces

3) Who should be allowed to create workspaces?

3.1) Does IT create workspaces when requested by end user teams?

4) Should there be a naming standard/pattern for workspaces?

4.1) Why?

4.2) If so, can you please suggest some naming strategies?

Thank you for your podcast. I enjoy listening to it.

Get in touch:

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Mike, Seth, & Tommy dive into a post by Brent Dykes (Author of Effective Data Storytelling) focused on why BI works on the "set-and-forget" method and how this can be a terrible workflow for data culture. How do we move from moving on to the next project and focusing on user enablement?

Link to Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brentdykes_analytics-businessintelligence-data-activity-7112468080148062208-znuN

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Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page.

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Yes, we know that not everyone can do everything in Fabric (yet). But one thing we do know: There are over 20 tools in Fabric, and its hard to get on top of 1) the rapid updates and 2) if you can do it!

Mike, Seth & Tommy review the most glaring that people need to know about:

Mentions:

Honorable Mentions:

Mike, Seth, & Tommy run through the major updates to Git, the Power BI Project type format, and everything in between.

Have you utilized Git workspaces yet? Or introduced Power BI Git Projects to your workflow?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/projects/projects-build-pipelines?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621

Mike, Seth, & Tommy are diving into a 2 part series based on incredibly funny video by Mike Ebbers (Video link below).

The background: Mike Ebbers delivers a spoof on ordering food the way businesses ask for data things. The Themes: I need the best quality, in the least amount of time, with the lowest budget, and its not on on time.

Today we are looking at the Business Intelligence point of view, and on Thursday we are diving into the Business side.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7118610194191810560/

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Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page.

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Microsoft Fabric and Workspaces. Mike, Seth, & Tommy have dived into this quite a bit already. However, what about the role based permissions in workspaces, in relation Fabric Artifacts?

Link to Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/roles-workspaces

Get in touch:

Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page.

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Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVv

Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎

Check Out Community Jam: https://jam.powerbi.tips

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Follow Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypuglia/