Breaking Bad….Governance in Power BI: Free & Open-Source Solution
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Teams Meeting: Link
Meeting Sponsor: CGI
Topic: Breaking Bad ... Governance in Power BI: Free & Open-Source Solution
As Power BI usage grows across your organization, even small changes — like renaming a field, moving a measure, or removing a column — can trigger a domino effect of broken visuals and failed refreshes. At scale, tracking down what broke (and why) can feel impossible.
This session shows how to take back control with a free, open-source toolkit that gives you full visibility across your workspaces — all the way down to the visual.
Built for everyone — no setup, no permissions, no hassle. Just one click, and you’re off!
You’ll see how it:
• Automatically backs up every report, model, and dataflow
• Maps dependencies across measures, visuals, and pages
• Shows exactly what will break before deploying changes
• Tracks refresh history and model health across all workspaces
• Delivers everything in an interactive Power BI dashboard
Walk away knowing how to see every connection, prevent breakages, and bring true transparency to your Power BI environment.
Speaker: Chris Cusumano
Chris is a Business Intelligence Architect at Quickbase. Since discovering Power BI in 2018, Chris Cusumano has helped teams in airline ops, engineering consulting, and the auto repair industry make sense of their data through clean models, sharp visuals, and scalable solutions. A self-taught data nerd with a knack for storytelling, Chris specializes in making analytics approachable and actionable. In 2025, he joined SaaS leader Quickbase to grow Power BI and Microsoft Fabric across the organization—bringing customer insights to life, one story at a time.