Power Bi Projects (Pbip) And Git Quick Start

Learn Git fundamentals and proven habits for working with Power BI Projects

What you'll learn

A proven daily work "rhythm" with Git and Power BI Projects (PBIP)

Professional Git skills including PRs (pull requests), diary commits, branching & merging, and more…

Deep understanding of Git version control fundamentals and collaboration

Use GitHub Desktop and VS Code in conjunction with Power BI Desktop

Requirements

Basic Power BI awareness/experience

Power BI Desktop (free, install information shown in videos)

GitHub Desktop (free, install information shown in videos)

GitHub User Account (free, discussed in videos)

VS Code (free, install information shown in videos)

Description

The June 2023 release of Power BI Desktop includes the new PBIP project format. The new project format breaks your Power BI projects down into separate folders and files that include all the details for your Power BI reports and underlying datasets. The main benefit of this new project format (PBIP) is that your projects can now be version controlled with Git.This quick-start course will teach you the fundamentals of Git and how to effectively use Git with your Power BI projects. A perfect jump-start to develop professional Git habits such as…Reviewing your dataset and report changes before committing them.Authoring diary commit messages for team communication, clarification, and enhanced historical records of changes.Examining dataset and report version diffs (changes/deltas) to learn and discover the inner workings of Power BI and increase your overall Power BI skills/effectiveness.Power BI Projects (PBIP) are brand new, and now is the best time to become an expert and lead your organization into the future. Soon all Power BI initiatives will be expected to use the new PBIP format along with Git version control, the days for PBIX files by themselves are numbered. There's no better time to start than now!Take this course to develop professional Git habits, a proven daily work "rhythm," and take your Power BI projects to the next level!

Overview

Section 1: Setup

Lecture 1 Setup Overview

Lecture 2 Installing Power BI Desktop

Lecture 3 Installing GitHub Desktop with your GitHub account

Lecture 4 Installing VS Code

Section 2: Git Orientation Whiteboards

Lecture 5 Why Whiteboards?

Lecture 6 Graph Theory FTW

Lecture 7 Git Branching & Merging on a Whiteboard

Lecture 8 GUI versus CLI

Lecture 9 Git + GitHub and More…

Section 3: Getting Started with Git/GitHub and our Power BI Project

Lecture 10 Forking a Repository

Lecture 11 Cloning a Repository

Lecture 12 Enable Power BI Projects - Preview Feature

Section 4: Daily Work Rhythm with PBIP, Git, and GitHub

Lecture 13 First, make a branch for your work…

Lecture 14 Next, start making your changes…

Lecture 15 Life Expectancy Reports Overview and Maintenance Tasks

Lecture 16 Collaborate and make more changes…

Lecture 17 Switching branches to view various versions of your PBIP…

Lecture 18 Finalizing our changes…

Lecture 19 Making our PR (pull request)…

Lecture 20 Accepting & merging our PR…

Section 5: One more Life Expectancy maintenance task…

Lecture 21 Grabbing and completing another open ticket…

Section 6: Odds & Ends, and Wrap-up

Lecture 22 Going Back in Time

Lecture 23 Discarding Local Changes

Lecture 24 GitHub Desktop Undo versus Git Revert

Lecture 25 Setting up a PBIP

Lecture 26 Review & Farewell

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