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Methods, field notes and Power BI patterns.

Articles written from the field, not from a deck. Project handovers, audits, DAX optimisation, reporting governance: what I actually run into, and what I learn from it.

Recovery22 April 2026 · 9 min

Taking over a Power BI project after the vendor walked away: where to start

The vendor is gone, documentation is non-existent, and reports keep breaking in production. Here is the approach I use to take back control without smashing what works.

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Diagram of a Power BI project: data sources, model, delivery to decision-makers.

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Audit12 March 2026 · 11 min

Power BI audit: the checklist I use on recovery engagements

A concrete checklist for auditing a legacy Power BI estate: what to look at first, in what order, and which signals should set off alarms.

Optimisation08 February 2026 · 8 min

DAX optimisation: the patterns that slow Power BI reports down

DAX optimisation gets discussed in the abstract a lot. Here are the concrete patterns that show up most often in legacy Power BI models, and how to fix them.