Author Archives: kenjihiranabe

About kenjihiranabe

CEO of Change Vision, Inc., an ISV of Astah, an Agile modeling tool, based in Tokyo Japan. Recent articles includes "Kanban Applied to Software Development: from Agile to Lean". Co-translated several Agile books into Japanese including: "Lean Software Development," "XP Installed", "Agile Project Management." 2008 Gordon Pask Award recipient for contributions to Agile practice.

Astah received “ComponentSource Best Product Award”

Posted on April 16, 2013

Hello Astah users, I’m humbly proud to announce that our product Astah Professional received today a “ComponentSource Top 25 Best Selling Product Awards 2012-2013 Worldwide.” We have been serially receiving this award since 2009, so this is our 4th award winning. Every … Continue reading →

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Special offer to Agile India 2013 attendees – my mindmapping tool – Astah

Posted on March 6, 2013

At Agile India 2013, I showed Astah, a mind mapping tool in some sessions. To those who asked me for a free license, Click the image below to jump to Astah Download page and then select your platform to install Astah on(Win, … Continue reading →

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Thank you, Agile India 2013

Posted on March 5, 2013

Agile India 2013 was an enagetic and eye-opening event I just attended in Bangalore. Here are some photos taken during my talks. Craig’s Keynote (Edit: Mar.7 Added) Here’s a mind map note I took for Craig Larman’s keynote speech. He made … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Agile and Scrum: Collaborative Software Devevelopment That Connects Customers, Engineers and Management”

Posted on February 21, 2013

This January, I have finally published a Japanese Agile book. “Agile and Scrum: Collaborative Software Development That Connects Customers, Engineers and Management” I humbly co-authored this book with Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka, the grandfather of Scrum who originally researched collaborative new product development … Continue reading →

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Agile google trends 2004-2013 – I’m presenting at Agile India 2013

Posted on February 17, 2013

I’m preparing for my first trip to India to attend Agile India 2013. At the conference, I’ll do three talks, and the first one is ”Agile adoption in Japan and Nonaka’s Scrum“. I am  preparing the talk and did a small research … Continue reading →

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Using SysML in an RTC-based Robotics Application : a case study with a demo

Posted on December 12, 2012

I’m in the Robotics group meeting at OMG this week. My aim is to share with knowledgeable people our first result of a case study of applying SysML to Robotics field. And also showing beta of Astah SysML modeling tool. OMG already … Continue reading →

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Why and how Scrum is made – Interview with Jeff Sutherland at scruminc

Posted on November 21, 2012

I visited scruminc. in Boston last September. Unfortunately, he was out in Zurich at the time, but he arranged time (in his hotel room at midnight) for me via Skype with the help of Laura Althoff at scruminc. I’d like … Continue reading →

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Talked about “Exploring User Wish through Mindmapping” at Agile New England

Posted on September 30, 2012

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert at Lean-Agile Partners Inc. invited me to talk at Agile New England. She and I first met at Agile Development Conference 2003 and since then, we have been good friends and seeing each other at every annual … Continue reading →

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Interview with Israel Gat — “Sometimes we don’t suggest Agile to our clients”

Posted on May 6, 2012

I was introduced to Israel Gat at Cutter Consortium by Alistair Cockburn, in the course of my survey about how Agile adoption is going worldwide. Israel kindly accepted my request for an interview via Skype. It was so interesting  to see … Continue reading →

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Japanese translation of “The Lean Startup” is ready to publish

Posted on March 26, 2012

The Japanese translation of “The Lean Startup” is being published soon! (Here’s the amazon link to the Japanese edition). I know this book is going to change the world. I made an overview mindmap. And here’s my recent blog about … Continue reading →

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