Tagged: Microsoft Fabric
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Fabric Is Best as a Backend
October 5, 2026
Fabric as a Backend passes Steve Jobs' iPad test on the wiring: workspace identity, Git, and 700+ REST APIs Microsoft is building for agents.
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Agentic Distributed Wisdom: Why Your Team's AI Skills Can't Live in One Head
September 30, 2026
Your team's AI skills are agentic IP. Agentic distributed wisdom puts that judgment in one library every person and every agent on the team reads.
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The Context Harness and the Execution Harness: Two Harnesses, One Loop
September 25, 2026
The context harness holds what your agent knows. The execution harness does the work. Why 80% of my agentic time goes into the first one.
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A Data Agent Should Be a Sub-Agent
September 23, 2026
A Fabric data agent works best as a sub-agent with one job that Copilot, Foundry, or Copilot Studio calls. Here's how I write those instructions.
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A skill.md Is Not Wisdom. So Make the Agent Grill You.
September 21, 2026
Your skill file carries instructions, never the judgment that says this is six hours not two. Matt Pocock's grill-me is how I get the judgment back in.
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Central BI Is a Tiger Team Now
September 18, 2026
In Fabric, central BI shouldn't own workspaces and ship gold models forever. It should float to the priority like a tiger team. Here's the operating model.
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Build the Thing That Creates the Thing
September 16, 2026
Stop prompting for the same notebook edit. Build the executor: an agent, its skills, and the context it reads, in a harness that reaches Fabric and Power BI.
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Don't Hire a Senior to QA the Agent
September 14, 2026
Hand agents to people who can't interrogate the output and you haven't scaled your team. You've built a review queue and staffed it with your architect.
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You Don't Have an AI Strategy. You Have AI Theater.
September 9, 2026
The intake test I run on every new skill, MCP server, and harness before it touches client work.
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Governance Pillars 3 and 4: Write the Contract Before You Hire the Watchdog
September 2, 2026
Accountability and culture are where governance gets hard. The data contract that gives an agent something real to enforce, plus a 30-day plan.
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The Four Pillars of Data Governance (and the Agent That Reports to Each) - Part 1
August 31, 2026
Enablement and promotion are the first two governance pillars. What actually lives in each, what doesn't, and the agent job to hire under both.
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Hard Data, Soft Data: The Layer Your AI Agent Is Missing
August 26, 2026
Your semantic model is only half your data. Why soft data, the decision logs and business context behind your tables, decides if AI agents work.
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AI Made Your Center of Excellence Bigger. Did It Get Better?
August 24, 2026
AI can flood your Power BI Center of Excellence with content overnight. Here's the maturity ladder for making it measurably better, not just bigger.
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Fabric Task Flow Studio: From One Sentence to a Deployed Fabric Architecture
August 21, 2026
A tour of Fabric Task Flow Studio: describe a Fabric problem in plain language, approve once, and get a deployed architecture with the docs to prove it.
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Don't Let Your Agent Touch Fabric Until It Reports Back
August 17, 2026
An agent's bad PySpark doesn't get a red squiggly line. It gets you data. The read-only survey I open every Fabric MCP session with, and the asserts that gate everything after.
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You're AI Ready. Your Organization Isn't.
August 12, 2026
Nobody has defined what AI ready means for an organization. The roles and delivery gaps behind slow AI adoption, plus a 30-60-90 that starts with data quality.
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Meet My Assistants: The Three Agents That Keep My Projects Honest
August 3, 2026
Part 3 of Stop Re-Prompting: the Notion assistants that organize context, drive requirements, and draft status updates for my Fabric projects.
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Anatomy of a Project Hub: Where Your Agent's Context Actually Lives
July 29, 2026
A tour of the project hub that feeds my AI agents context, so every session starts informed instead of from zero.
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Before the Fabric Adoption Roadmap, Run the Step-Zero Test
July 27, 2026
Adoption roadmaps fail at companies that never defined what they measure. Run the step-zero test before you invest in any Fabric framework.
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Stop Re-Prompting: Your Second Brain Should Write Your Agent's Instructions
July 20, 2026
Stop re-prompting your AI agent. Build a two-harness workflow where your second brain writes the agent's instructions and MCP executes in Power BI and Fabric.
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Should an AI Agent Sit on Your Data Governance Committee?
July 16, 2026
AI agents won't lead your data governance program, but they can own its hardest job: transparency. Where to point them first, plus a 30-day plan.
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Diagramming for DAX with Generative AI
September 11, 2024
On a conversation on the podcast I host with 2 fine gentlemen (Explicit Measures Podcast, a lot of fun) we tend to bring up the intersection of AI & Business Intelligence quite a bit.
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Unlocking AI for Power BI & Business Intelligence Skills
July 17, 2024
I have been lucky enough to be in the Business Intelligence space for the past 9 years with a focus on Power BI and the amazing application it has for organizations.
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