With over 25 years of communicating technical information to business managers, clients, and developers, Peter Vogel has become a sought after writer and presenter at conferences around the world. Peter has four published books, including rtfm*: the little book on how to write so you’ll actually get read.
Peter has been a Learning Tree instructor since 1997 and is the author of the courses Technical Writing Introduction and UI and UX Optimized Software Design.
He instructs the following .NET courses for Learning Tree:
• Business and Report Writing
• Service-Oriented Architecture Introduction
• C# Programming
• .NET Best Practices and Design Patterns
You can follow Peter’s tweets (@phvogel) on communication with the hash tag #vogelcommunicate.
Blazor: Why, When…and Your Future
jan 15,
2020
Blazor is Microsoft’s cross-platform technology for creating client-side, browser-based applications in C# using .NET Core. It really does work and, more importantly, really could change everything. The immediate reason that IT shops should be interested in Blazor is because it reduces the size of the shop’s toolbox. The long term reason that you want to […]
Ten Steps to Creating Reliable Spreadsheets
jul 31,
2018
Stop worrying about how sophisticated your spreadsheets are. What you (and your company) should worry about is how reliable your spreadsheet is. Here are ten things you can do to ensure your data is right and that you (and your company) aren’t depending on a unreliable spreadsheet. Embarrassingly enough, I run both my personal finances […]
Crafting a Strategic Response to the World You Live in with PESTLE
jun 19,
2018
The world is a big complicated place. A PESTLE analysis provides a way to understand your world…but that only matters if you turn the information PESTLE generates into something useful. Following your PESTLE analysis with three more steps (and merging it with another critical business analysis tool) can lead you to something actionable. As we […]
The Two Business Analysis Tools and the One Technique Every Business Analyst Must Master
jun 12,
2018
Of all the tools and techniques available to a business analyst, two tools and one technique are essential. One tool defines the question that drives analysis, one technique balances off the three forces that drive the selection of all the other tools, and the final tool ensures that the BA’s conclusions are communicated effectively. Business […]
The Real Role of the Business Analyst: Connecting Strategy to Action
maj 1,
2018
If business analysts were just people who”analyze businesses” they would have, at most, a passive role that wouldn’t contribute to their organizations’ achieving their goals. The real role of the business analyst is a far more active one and provides the essential link between the organization’s goals and its IT projects. Business analysts who adopt […]
