Unlocking Power BI Developer Mode with PBIP: A Practical Guide | David Hanna

Are you a Power BI self-service developer and fear PBIP, Git, source control, VS Code and MCP?

In this session, you will learn why PBIP and PBIR is a gamechanger for report development and how we can utilize VS Code, Git and MCP to assist. There will be practical examples and guides to learn from.

This session will be told by a self-service developer for the self-service developers to be empowered for Git

① Fundamentals of PBIP, PBIR and TMDL
② Setup of Git and VS Code
③ Working with JSON Report Theme in VS Code
④ Tracking changes with Git
⑤ Copy-paste template of TMDL and report pages files (Model documentation example)
⑥ Agentic Power BI Development with GitHub Copilot and Power BI Modeling MCP Server