Most analytics projects don't fail in Power BI Desktop.
They fail three weeks earlier, in a meeting where someone says: “We just need a simple sales dashboard.”
Everyone nods.
The data team starts modelling.
Three sprints later, the fact table is being rebuilt because the real problem was never a dashboard. A commercial leader needed to decide which customers required intervention before the end of the month.
This workshop is about the conversation before the architecture.
Using questioning patterns inspired by professional coaching, participants will practise how to slow down the rush to solution without turning requirements gathering into a three-hour interrogation.
We will work with realistic analytics requests and practise how to:
- distinguish a requested artefact from the decision it is supposed to support,
- contract for what “success” means before discussing visuals,
- surface assumptions without accusing the stakeholder of being wrong,
- explore multiple perspectives when business and engineering use the same word differently,
- translate the resulting clarity into model grain, metrics, and semantic design.
This is about learning to ask questions that create shared understanding before technical decisions become expensive.