HR analytics at 500+ users.
A dashboard with five hundred users is not a report. It is a product, with uptime expectations and opinions.
What it is
My first chapter at KPMG: building and managing Power BI dashboards for HR analytics, each serving more than 500 users. At that scale the work stops being about visuals and starts being about data models that refresh reliably, measures that survive edge cases, and performance under real load.
The second half of the assignment was making myself unnecessary: consulting and teaching the client's citizen developers to maintain and extend the dashboards themselves.
The work
- Built and managed HR analytics dashboards in Power BI, each with 500+ users
- Owned the data models, measures and refresh reliability behind them
- Consulted and taught citizen developers to maintain the dashboards independently
- Learned the git, CI/CD and Agile practices that carried into every project since
Concepts
What it taught me
Handover is a feature. A solution the client can maintain without you is worth more than one that needs you forever.