Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2016 Level 2 — Lesson 4: Enterprise Reporting Scenario and Quality Review

Learning Objectives

• Translate stakeholder requirements into report logic, layout, controls, and acceptance criteria
• Test data accuracy, parameter behavior, security, accessibility, and rendering outputs
• Document defects, corrective actions, ownership, and future reporting improvements

Detailed Topics

• Translate stakeholder requirements into report logic: Translate stakeholder requirements into report logic, layout, controls, and acceptance criteria
• Test data accuracy: Test data accuracy, parameter behavior, security, accessibility, and rendering outputs
• Document defects: Document defects, corrective actions, ownership, and future reporting improvements

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Deliver an enterprise-style SSRS report pack with a complete validation checklist.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Enterprise Reporting Scenario and Quality Review in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.