Best Practices for Concurrent Development

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I would like to know if there are any Standard Best Practices to follow during Concurrent Development.

For example:
There are 10 reports to be developed by 5 developers, where each developer develops 2 reports. At the end, all the reports need to be consolidated into a single PBIX file. While doing so, are there any Standards which needs to be followed.
Can someone help me on this?

Thanks in advance,
Soumya Vinod.

[v-lili6-msft]

hi  @Anonymous 

For different reports they will have different datasets, so i would suggest you publish these reports into one app workspace and create a app for this workspace.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-create-distribute-apps

Otherwise, you need to combine all the datasource of these reports into one dataset, then let developers use this dataset to create the reports and then copy the visual from different pbix files into one pbix file. this will be more complicated.

Regards,

Lin

[danno]

I would try and create a single data model, created from only one power bi file (without any reports).  

When you deploy this model, then any number of users can create reports on top of that model. 

If you then need to converge multiple reports (presumably separate pages) onto one big report, then you can copy / paste pages between reports as the data model will be the same.

You will have to make sure that if users need to create measures, that one person who manages the data model adds the measures, otherwise you will have to copy / paste measures between your reports, as well as report pages.  

The guidance is in this white paper : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/whitepapers - Planning Enterprise Development Page 98

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