{"id":10289,"date":"2020-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/documenting-your-power-bi-projects\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T19:41:46","slug":"documenting-your-power-bi-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/documenting-your-power-bi-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenting Your Power BI Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you want to learn how to document your Power BI projects?<\/strong> In a recent webinar with Sr. Consultant, Kirill Perian, you\u2019ll <strong>learn Power BI\u2019s internal documentation capabilities as well as look at some other tools available to document your Power BI models and reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One big reason for documentation is if a project needs to be turned over to another person, when someone leaves a job for instance, it\u2019s the easiest way for the next person to get going on the project. Kirill touches upon the benefits of having a functional spec before you design your technical spec and start your development.<\/p>\n<p>But the main focus in this webinar is how <strong>documentation is the key to data lineage<\/strong>. <strong>In modern business intelligence projects, understanding the flow of data from the data source to its destination is a big challenge for many customers.<\/strong> Typically there is the\u00a0need to explain the origin, purpose of the different tables; how and why transformations are done in queries; how and why relationships are set up as is.<\/p>\n<p>Kirill <strong>will tell you the questions you need to answer before you begin to document<\/strong>, in other words, the who, what, why, when and where of how to document. Plus, he\u2019ll explain why the biggest key word in documentation is balance.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of the presentation is spent on a demo of documenting Power BI projects. You can watch the complete webinar below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fznGEXHv0Pw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Need further help? Our expert team and solution offerings can help your business with any Azure product or service, including Managed Services offerings. Contact us at 888-8AZURE or\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sales@3cloudsolutions.com\">sales@3cloudsolutions.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to learn how to document your Power BI projects? In a recent&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":10756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-ai","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}