22-25 April 2026
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SQLBits 2022

Gathering Requirements for Reporting Projects

Learn how to correctly gather requirements which will help lead your reporting project to success. A variety of tools and skills are displayed, with free available templates offered at the end.
It is a fact that many reporting projects fail. Some estimates put this as high as 80%. Why is this? Often, a project can be doomed for failure before it even starts. One if the biggest reasons is a lack of complete and well-designed requirements. Simply asking the user what they want to see is one of the quickest ways to failure! Poor requirements can lead to unrealistic goals, bad adoption, or even impossible asks. Power BI MVP Steve Campbell will run through some of the mistakes he has seen (and made!) and talk through how we can do this properly. A variety of tools and skills are displayed, with free available templates offered at the end.