Explicit Measures Podcast

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1. 577: Can you Stomach Data Governance?

   3 november 2026 · 1 uur 11 min

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   Mike & Tommy tackle one of BI's most talked-about, least-understood topics: data governance. They dig into whether a Power BI or Fabric rollout can ever truly succeed without it, why leadership buy-in can make or break the effort, and how AI agents might finally give teams the stomach — or the shortcut — to get governance right. Lees meer

   News from this episode:

   Fabric Apps in Org Apps
   Data Engineering Agent for Fabric – Project Osmos
   Data Days: Learn, Build, and Connect with AI
   Microsoft Reactor Event
   Chicagoland Power BI Meetup

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2. 576: Distributed Wisdom for Fabric

   29 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 10 min

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   Mike & Tommy dive into the concept of distributed wisdom—how organizations can connect expertise spread across people and teams so that knowledge shapes decisions beyond where it originated—and explore what that means for Microsoft Fabric and agentic tooling. They tackle whether technology like semantic models, the OneLake catalog, and AI agents can actually carry human judgment across an org, or whether the real blockers are process and culture. From governance guardrails to communities of practice, the conversation surfaces practical first steps for BI teams trying to make collective intelligence real inside Fabric. Lees meer

   More on the topic: Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide

   News links:
   DAX LLM Benchmark v2.0 Trailer – SQLBI
   Govern Your Microsoft Fabric Data Estate from One Place with the OneLake Catalog
   thisorthat.tips
   Book Link

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3. 575: Choosing the Right Model In Fabric

   27 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 6 min

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   Mike & Tommy tackle the question of how to match the right LLM to the right Microsoft Fabric workload, exploring whether bigger always means better or just more expensive, and how teams can build a practical model-selection strategy across Power BI, notebooks, pipelines, and more. Lees meer

   They break down the planning and execution decisions behind agentic tooling in Fabric—covering Power BI Desktop Bridge, semantic models, and notebooks—and land on a framework for making model choice a deliberate, cost-aware decision rather than a default.

   News: Fabric Data Warehouse Integration with Fabric User Data Functions (Preview) | Data Visualization in the Agentic Era

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4. 574: Data Agent Contract Layer

   22 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 18 min

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   Mike & Tommy tackle the emerging role of the semantic model as an AI contract layer in Microsoft Fabric, weighing in on whether Data Agents should reason over governed semantic models or hit OneLake directly. They explore the tension between years of invested business logic in semantic models and the flexibility of Lakehouse-first agent access, breaking down how OneLake Security, RLS, and semantic model permissions can coexist for both traditional BI and AI-powered data workloads. Lees meer

   This is a Mailbag episode.

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5. 573: Fabric Deployment Plan

   20 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 9 min

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   Mike & Tommy dive into Fabric Deployment Plans, exploring how this new Fabric item fills a real gap in CI/CD by giving teams explicit control over deployment order, pre- and post-deploy actions, and environment binding — things lineage alone never reliably handled. They weigh whether a visual canvas makes deployments more approachable or just hides what's really happening under the hood, and what teams should nail down before trusting a preview feature with a production release. Lees meer

   Learn more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/cicd/deployment-plan/how-to-create-deployment-plan | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/cicd/deployment-plan/deployment-plan-sample-plans

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6. 572: Does the Ontology Agent Change Our Minds?

   15 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 14 min

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   Mike & Tommy weigh in on the Fabric IQ Ontology Agent, exploring whether a conversational interface built on structured business definitions finally makes ontology worth the investment—or just adds another layer for BI teams to govern. They break down the real cost of building and maintaining an ontology, who owns it when answers go wrong, and whether this changes how business users get to the truth. Lees meer

   News: Fabric App Functions – Secure Server-Side Custom Logic (Preview) | File Data Ingestion with Materialized Lake Views in Fabric (Preview)

   Learn more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/iq/ontology/tutorial-4-use-agent

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7. 571: Fabric Notebook Toolkit - Measuring the Impact

   13 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 14 min

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   Mike & Tommy dive into the Fabric Notebook Toolkit (FNTK), a Python library that makes end-to-end agentic development of Microsoft Fabric Notebooks possible from GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenAI Codex, and Claude Code. They break down whether putting AI agents in the driver's seat of notebook creation raises the bar for governance or just accelerates the chaos. Tune in to find out what guardrails, skills, and mindset shifts BI pros need before letting an agent loose in their workspace. Lees meer

   https://pypi.org/project/fabric-notebook-toolkit/

   News:

   https://www.meetup.com/chicagolandpowerbi/events/316158533/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

   https://promptingbi.com/2026/10/08/why-i-built-skill-vault/

   https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/a-new-look-and-new-capabilities-in-the-capacity-metrics-app-preview/5374114

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8. 570: PADU & Fabric

   8 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 15 min

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   Mike & Tommy tackle PADU — Preferred, Accepted, Discouraged, and Unacceptable — and map the four-bucket framework onto Microsoft Fabric, exploring how teams can bring real governance and process architecture to a platform that gives you five ways to do everything. Lees meer

   They weigh in on where Lakehouse, Git, Dataflows, Copilot, and self-service Power BI land on the scale, and why defining what your org will no longer tolerate might matter more than any architecture decision you make this year.

   News links: Chicagoland Power BI Meetup | Trusted AI with Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence | Understanding DAX Contracts When Using AI – SQLBI

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9. 569: Signal & Reporting - Write Back Belongs Where?

   6 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 9 min

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   Mike & Tommy tackle the question of whether Power BI should stay an analytics layer or evolve into an operational one, joined by Mike Zack — former CEO of Acterys, now part of Vena — who has built his career around closing the gap between insight and action. They weigh in on when write-back genuinely belongs in a report, who owns the data once users can change it, and what governance has to exist before you flip that switch. Lees meer

   With AI surfacing signals faster than ever, the real bottleneck may not be the dashboard — it's the disconnected workflow that follows it.

   More on Mike Zack and the tools discussed: What's New in Microsoft OneLake | Microsoft & Snowflake's Commitment to Apache | What's New in Fabric Data Factory

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10. 568: FabCon Barcelona - Feature Draft

    1 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 9 min

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    Mike & Tommy dive into the biggest announcements from FabCon Barcelona, breaking down how Fabric IQ, agentic app creation, ontology authoring, and a wave of platform updates are reshaping what Power BI and Fabric mean for everyday BI teams. They tackle whether the semantic model has officially become the center of the Microsoft AI universe, and what orgs need to do right now to be ready. Lees meer

    From write-back apps built with natural language to zero-provisioned Fabric and on-demand billing, they weigh in on which features deserve a spot on your 90-day roadmap and which ones need more governance guardrails before anyone touches them.

    Read more: FabCon & SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona | Power BI's Next Chapter | Power BI September 2026 Feature Summary | Fabric September 2026 Feature Summary

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