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Michiel Rozema
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Michiel Rozema

Michiel Rozema is one of the world's top Power BI experts, living in the Netherlands. He holds a master's degree in mathematics and has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years as a consultant and manager. Michiel was the data insight lead at Microsoft Netherlands for 8 years, during which time he launched Power BI in the country. He is the author of two Dutch books on Power Pivot and Power BI. Michiel is one of the founders of the Dutch Power BI user group and the organizer of the Power BI Summer School, and has been a speaker at many conferences on Power BI. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award since 2019 and, together with fellow MVP Henk Vlootman, runs the consultancy company Quanto, specialists in Power BI.
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Henk Vlootman is a senior global Power Platform, Power BI, and Excel business consultant. Every year since 2013, Henk has received the Microsoft MVP award for his outstanding expertise and community leadership. Henk is one of founders of the Dutch Power BI user group and the organizer of the Power BI Summer School, and has been a speaker at many conferences on Power BI all over the world. He is also the author of two Excel and two Power Pivot / Power BI books. He started his career in 1992 with his own company, then as an Excel consultant. Nowadays he runs the consultancy company Quanto, specialists in Power BI, together with fellow MVP Michiel Rozema.
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Considering aggregation levels

The FTE calculation, as we have designed it, computes the FTEs needed at the level of project type. This means that we simply add the FTE numbers for all projects with the same type. It is a business consideration as to whether this is what the organization really wants.

For example, if an A1 project in Paris and an A1 project in London will run at the same time and each needs a 0.5 FTE project manager, we need 1 full-time project manager in total. While this is mathematically correct, you may argue that a single project manager will not be able to manage both projects. We may need boots on the ground, which practically excludes having someone travel between Paris and London all the time. The result would be that we need, in fact, two project managers.

The simple solution to this would be to do the calculation on a by-location basis, adding another iteration to the measure. However, even if we compute 0.5 FTE twice, the end result is still 1...

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Michiel Rozema

Michiel Rozema is one of the world's top Power BI experts, living in the Netherlands. He holds a master's degree in mathematics and has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years as a consultant and manager. Michiel was the data insight lead at Microsoft Netherlands for 8 years, during which time he launched Power BI in the country. He is the author of two Dutch books on Power Pivot and Power BI. Michiel is one of the founders of the Dutch Power BI user group and the organizer of the Power BI Summer School, and has been a speaker at many conferences on Power BI. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award since 2019 and, together with fellow MVP Henk Vlootman, runs the consultancy company Quanto, specialists in Power BI.
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Henk Vlootman

Henk Vlootman is a senior global Power Platform, Power BI, and Excel business consultant. Every year since 2013, Henk has received the Microsoft MVP award for his outstanding expertise and community leadership. Henk is one of founders of the Dutch Power BI user group and the organizer of the Power BI Summer School, and has been a speaker at many conferences on Power BI all over the world. He is also the author of two Excel and two Power Pivot / Power BI books. He started his career in 1992 with his own company, then as an Excel consultant. Nowadays he runs the consultancy company Quanto, specialists in Power BI, together with fellow MVP Michiel Rozema.
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