Best Practice for Workspace Naming

Just wondering if there is any best practice recommendations or guidelines when it comes to naming workspaces within Power BI. Trying to create a better level of organisation for our reporting across the organisation. Departmental Naming doesn’t really fit as our reports are aligned more to specific processes or activities. Was planning to incorporate some level of prefix, but only if it adds value (e.g. denotes Internal vs External).

If you intend to share access to the workspace, then naming will matter to the report consumers.
however, if you intend to share only the final reports or app - the names will only impact report designers.

If you are going to share your reports via an app, then I recommend having SOME correlation between the app and workspace names. I have one app which is named “Sales Reports”, but the workspace is named for a division within the company “division name Team” - and that became frustrating early on with only a few workspaces.

You can also link workspaces to Microsoft Teams (Office 365 Group), so that may be a consideration in your workspace naming

Thank you so much for that detailed answer @Heather

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