Contents tagged with review

  • Asus Zen Ultrabook One Month Later

    I wrote a few weeks ago about my new Asus Zen Ultrabook computer.  I’ve  been using it as my primary laptop computer since then, and thought I’d write up a follow-up on how it’s been.  Overall, I’m quite pleased with it.  The performance is great, the battery life is quite good, and the instant on/off experience makes it almost as quick and easy to use as my phone or iPad.  In fact, I’ve just spent the last three days on the road at a client conducting training, and driving as many as four concurrent Visual Studio 2010 instances along with three browsers, SQL Server, and PowerPoint, and everything ran great.  So, the short version is, it’s a nice piece of kit … more

  • Reviewing Scrumban the Book

    I’ve been reading a bunch of kanban and lean books recently as I work on my Pluralsight course on Introducing Kanban (not published yet – will link to it when it is).  The most recent one I’ve finished is Scrumban, Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development, by Corey Ladas (I’m doing the reviews in LIFO order).  I made a bunch of notes while reading this book, and it has a great deal of useful information.  I read David Anderson’s Kanban book first, followed by Benson and Barry’s Personal Kanban.  I think reading Scrumban last was definitely the right choice, though if I were recommending these books today I would most likely suggest someone start with … more