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Practical notes on BI engineering that hold up in delivery.

Short, experience-driven articles on Power BI performance, semantic model governance, PBIP and PBIR workflow, analytics engineering, and testing-oriented report quality.

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Articles across 5 focus areas. Latest update April 2, 2026.

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A Pattern Catalog for Automated Measure Testing in Power BI

Best when reporting issues should be caught before publishing, not after escalation.

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Power BI performance 1 article

Semantic model governance 2 articles

PBIP/PBIR workflow 1 article

Analytics engineering 1 article

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Choose the angle that matches the delivery problem.

The archive stays narrow on purpose: practical BI engineering topics where review quality, maintainability, and production trust matter.

Power BI performance

Best when a report feels slow and the team needs a clear triage order.

Performance guidance focused on isolating the real bottleneck before effort gets wasted in the wrong layer.

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Semantic model governance

Best when a model change needs a fast risk check before it reaches users.

Governance guidance centered on change visibility, semantic-model discipline, and safer release decisions.

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PBIP/PBIR workflow

Best when report review quality matters more than source control slogans.

Workflow notes on making report and model changes easier to inspect, review, and deploy with confidence.

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Analytics engineering

Best when upstream data handoffs are making reporting harder to trust.

Practical notes on delivery handoffs, analytics engineering discipline, and reducing ambiguity before it reaches BI.

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Testing and report quality

Best when reporting issues should be caught before publishing, not after escalation.

Quality checks and publishing habits that tighten validation and reduce avoidable report regressions.

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Each article is written for fast scanning and grounded in patterns that show up repeatedly in production BI delivery.

Testing and report quality April 2, 2026 7 min read

A Pattern Catalog for Automated Measure Testing in Power BI

Most Power BI teams don't automate measure testing, but not because they don't want to. They don't because nobody has written down what the patterns actually are. This is the catalog I'd hand a new BI engineer on day one.

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Best when reporting issues should be caught before publishing, not after escalation.

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Quality checks and publishing habits that tighten validation and reduce avoidable report regressions.

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Experience-driven guidance, not a general-interest blog.

The archive stays practical: articles designed to clarify what to check, what to review, and where delivery risk usually hides.

Semantic model governance March 26, 2026 9 min read

When to Redesign a Semantic Model vs. Patch It

Not every semantic-model problem needs a rebuild. The right call depends on how deep the structural issues go, how much trust the current model still carries, and whether a patch leaves behind something you would want to hand off. A decision matrix, a worked example, and the failure modes that catch teams out.

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