528: The Importance of Skills for the Fabric Developer

About this episode

Mike & Tommy discuss the significance of skills for Fabric developers, evaluating their impact on productivity and governance.

Mike & Tommy explore the importance of agentic skills for the Fabric developer, weighing whether Skills are a productivity breakthrough or another governance risk, and discussing how to build, version, and share Skills without sacrificing engineering discipline. https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Semantic-model-settings-pane-Preview/ba-p/5177694 https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Execute-DAX-Queries-REST-API-Preview/ba-p/5177697 Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/powerbitips Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVv Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎ Check Out Community Jam: https://jam.powerbi.tips Follow Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarlo/ Follow…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike, Tommy

Topics covered

• Fabric developer skills
• productivity
• governance risk
• engineering discipline
• agentic skills

Keywords

• Fabric developer
• skills
• productivity
• governance risk
• engineering discipline
• agentic skills

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PowerBI.Tips, Microsoft

Books & works: Semantic model settings pane Preview, Execute DAX Queries REST API Preview

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