Jeroen van der A

Business Intelligence enthusiast, Sailor, doing a lot of sports

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

time to participate in a challenge again
used this to challenge myself in DAX functions and SVG

#WOW2026 #MinivizMay #PowerBI

@shan_gsd @MMarie @KerryKolosko

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2025
And another!
Took a different approach to make it more scalable with an extended datamodel and different calculation

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2025 week 6
Embedding online content in powerbi

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2025
Long time since last one, let's get back into the game

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2023 #PowerBI
tried to make it into an infograph like, putting multiple messages in there. Was fun to do that. Noted that I always go to the same type of colors, will force myself to change that next time :-)

@MMarie @shan_gsd @KerryKolosko

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

@KerryKolosko @MMarie @shan_gsd this report right?
https://t.co/E5VANOuJm9

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2024 #PowerBI
As I saw the livestream yesterday @HavensBI
I thought I should take another way just to make it a challenge. Good way to spend a lot more time ;-)

Calculated min orderdate in and customerage in PowerQuery went from there
@MMarie @shan_gsd, @KerryKolosko

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

Picked up my own old version of week 35 as a start point only to realize that I needed to rework all :-)
#WOW2024 #powerbi

@MMarie @shan_gsd @KerryKolosko

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2024 week 4
Nice Excuse to use Deneb again.
@MMarie @shan_gsd @KerryKolosko

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

New years resolutions for Britons,

I nice way of doing a bit of creativity in-between reading up on Fabric.

#WOW2023 #powerbi
@MMarie, @shan_gsd @KerryKolosko

[Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham @MSDataGroupBrum]

Speaker🎤 Jeroen van der A (@Hyronimous)
Title💻 What if in Power BI

📅Thurs 7th December at 1PM GMT

During this session, we will explore various "What if" scenarios on multiple levels... #PowerBI

https://t.co/vWzm4l6QPB

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

All those new stages in your deployment pipeline will give some fun possibilities :-)
#PowerBI

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2023 week 41 challenge, did the plots as much I could and added another page just for the fun of it :-)
#PowerBI
@MMarie @shan_gsd @KerryKolosko

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

@PawarBI interesting find, new versions are almost like a treasure hunt this way :-)

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

Testing calculation groups in PowerBI desktop preview, #powerbi

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

@shan_gsd @MMarie @KerryKolosko thanks 😄, spent a lot of time on fabric last few months, but it's good to be back in visualization

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2023 week 30.
It's a bit of a hack putting two graphs on top of each other, but it works nicely. so that's good :-)
#PowerBI

@MMarie @shan_gsd @KerryKolosko

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

“You are great at execution, the team loves you, but you need to be more strategic”

Hearing this feedback from your direct manager or your skip manager can be very confusing.

And for highly capable product people who consistently get things done, this theme of “you need to be more strategic” is extremely common. It is perhaps the most common feedback given to otherwise-competent PMs at some point in their career.

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It starts showing up after you’ve rapidly ascended your company’s career ladder up to Sr. PM or Group PM. And once it starts showing up, it just will not go away. That is, until you fix it.

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But here’s the trouble: it is incredibly confusing to know how to act on this feedback. As a further complication, while many managers / skip levels are happy to deliver this feedback, most of them either do not have the expertise or the time to create more clarity on how the employee should act on this feedback.

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So let’s solve that.

First, if you receive the “you need to be more strategic” feedback, it doesn’t automatically mean that you should be looking to take a product strategy course or read a product strategy book.

Product strategy and being strategic are not always the same thing.

In practice, not all “you need to be more strategic” feedback is the same.

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There are 3 distinct categories of this feedback:

1) More Product Thinking: You need to do more Product Thinking and less Project Thinking (see the image below if you’re curious about the differences between Product Thinking and Project Thinking)

2) New Opportunity Creation: You need to spend more time on creating new opportunities and the next big new business for your org & company (instead of being mainly focused on executing on and optimizing the current cash cow)

3) Actual Product Strategy: You need to clarify the vision and product strategy for your product (and make sure that the right people at the right levels in the right functions understand this vision & strategy, and are aligned to execute on it across the company)

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#1 is usually the case for Sr. PMs / GPMs when they want to get to Director level.

#2 is usually the case for Director level folks who need to demonstrate impact above and beyond what would organically happen anyway.

#3 is usually the case for GPM / Director / VP level folks who are very good Operators, but haven’t yet found the time or built the skills to clarify a real product vision and strategy and get the broader org aligned towards it.

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So if in the next perf review season you get the “you need to be more strategic” feedback, I suggest you use this framework to get more clarity from your manager on what you actually need to do to respond to their feedback.

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

#WOW2023 week 31, creating a mekko chart. used if then + text.proper to format labels and created measures for texts on the right side. #PowerBI

@MMarie @shan_gsd @KerryKolosko

[Jeroen van der A @Hyronimous]

@KerryKolosko good reminder, to listen to more dire straits :-)