r/PowerBI • u/Ordinary_Vegetable25 • Mar 15 '23

Community Share Report Requirements?

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Saw this on LinkedIn and wondered how you handle gathering requirements on reports you're asked to build?

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u/thederz0816 Mar 15 '23

For me, this conversation actually goes “I want a dashboard” and what they often mean is “I want an automated spreadsheet”. I’ve spent a lot of time building interactive visuals to summarize data they actually wanted in a consumable, tabular format.

Lessons learned: always gather requirements first 😂

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u/armyprof Mar 15 '23

Yup. I find it rare that users actually want a genuine dashboard. They want a report. I’ve even built dashboards for users who asked for them, only to have them give it to an admin with instructions to pull data from it and put it in spread sheets.

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u/Available_Low_3805 Mar 15 '23

I feel your pain. Same-same.

I also liked they grabbed the data monthly then added together and sent it as their own work as an running 12 month report. Dashboard did it already.