• Content and Change Management
  • Responsible for the content published to the workspace and its accuracy
  • Using authorized and validated data sources and understanding them
  • Helping users navigate and understand reports, dashboard, and datasets
  • Properly documenting solutions per guidelines in templates
  • Understanding the purpose of Dev/Test/Production workspaces
    • Validating changes to datasets/report in the test workspace

    • Performing only manual refreshes of data in test workspaces

    • Publish to production once validation is confirmed in test workspace

  • Understanding the audience of the workspace and determining if you should:
    • Grant access to consumers to the workspace (small audience)

    • Publish an app (large, cross organization audience)

    • Remember – everyone who has access to a workspace at contributor level and above can change content!

  • Ensure the data stays fresh by either:
    • Refreshing locally (PBIX) and republishing

    • Working with IT to connect through a data gateway

Security

  • Ensure only the right eyes have access to your workspace/app
  • Identify and grant access to backup support

    • There should never be only one admin, but there shouldn’t be too many either

  • Facilitate smooth succession of ownership if you change positions
  • Implement RLS if required

Community Participation

  • Participate in the Power BI Community “Center of Excellence” (formerly known as the “Purple Team”) and contribute/share knowledge gained, tips and tricks, and support other users when you can