Note: This session would fit into the "Power BI Report Delivery Learning Journey" element of SQLBits.

Power BI drives key decisions in organisations. Those decisions are only as reliable as the content that they are based on.

This session is about how to ensure that the most critical Power BI content is completely robust, but without compromising speed of delivery.

Far too often, Power BI content is built under huge time pressure and significant issues which affect performance, accuracy of the data and usability are missed. Reports rely on other content such as Dataflows, Datasets and work done further upstream (and now also in Fabric workloads!). Conversely, sometimes organisations put so many governance steps in place that the pace of delivery is too slow (driving content developers crazy in the process!!)

This session is aimed at members of Power BI centres of excellence who are tasked with governing how Power BI operates in their organisation. It is also aimed at content developers, who can take ideas from the presentation to drive up quality on their own work.

Audience members attending this session should understand the basics of Power BI, including awareness of the various types of content and capabilities available (Datasets, Reports, Workspaces, Deployment Pipelines).

The audience will learn:
- How to identify which content needs which level of governance, applying only the most stringent checks to the most critical content.
- The appropriate checks to put in place as the content goes from development, to a test phase and finally goes live.
- How to appropriately design the various checks such as developer peer review, risk assessment for testing and so on.
- How to communicate with end users about the level of rigour which has been applied to the development of content.

The audience will receive detailed guidance documents and templates following the session which they can adapt to their own organisation.