With Fabric workspace git integration and Power BI Desktop Developer Mode, Microsoft has finally made substantial investments into source control capabilities for Power BI content creators.

The sources describing Power BI data models have long been known across the industry and are well documented (BIM, TMDL), but what about the report?

With the public preview of Developer Mode in PBI Desktop, released in June 2023, the sources behind reports (pages and visuals) have been made visible everyone for the first time. However, documentation and general understanding of those artifacts is still very sparse.

This session gives you all the information you need to take advantage of this change for your own development workflows:

* Learn to "read" the report sources in their current shape
* Understand upcoming improvements to the format
* Get an introduction to existing tooling, including some new, recently released, external tools
* Use your new understanding of the report sources for quality checks and sign-offs

Mathias has many years of experience implementing source control solutions for Power BI reports via his open source tool, pbi-tools. He also contributed the declarative TMDL format for datasets to the product team - explicitly designed to support source control scenarios.