Power BI Culture: Governance as a gateway to adoption, not a barrier.

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Organisation has thousands of ungoverned workspaces and duplicate reports; the session presents a roadmap: four governance principles and three culture pillars to move to a governed self‑service model using a self-service pyramid, centralized data sets and business‑owned datasets. Practical controls include workspace design, access patterns, tenant settings, gateways, deployment pipelines with Git integration, REST API monitoring and third‑party monitoring solutions. Anecdotes quantify the problem (clients with thousands of workspaces, one case with ~50 replace‑value Power Query steps) and recommend tradeoffs that preserve one version of the truth while keeping users engaged.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:11Why governance matters
3. 2:34Power BI culture and goals
4. 3:56Governance vs self-service
5. 5:41Self-service pyramid
6. 8:58Governance framework
7. 12:49Key process blocks
8. 15:15Development standards
9. 16:39Decision principles
10. 18:43Conclusion and key takeaways
11. 19:04Q&A

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