http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/ astah* Community Site en hiranabe http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=69 2010-09-02T08:33:36+09:00 hiranabe Mary and Tom Poppendieck wrote in their new lean book "Leading Lean Software Development: The Results Are Not The Point " that if you have too a long list of user requests, limit it to the length that fits to your thoughput. And in their talk I heard one episode of their client where they accutally saw a list you would have to spend *years* to catch up, so they said to them "Discard the older part. you cannnot do with them anyway." Dis... http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=68 2010-04-30T07:55:22+09:00 hiranabe After Agile has been adopted so widely, scaling agility across the enterprise is now a topic for these years. In this blog, I ponder two ways to scale Agile -- a "Tree" and a "River" as metaphores in the mother nature. "Tree" type, or "Scrum of Scrums" type scaling. This is a natural extension of Scrum from a team to a project of scrum teams or a progam of scrum projects, and maybe to a company with a product portofolio. In this ... http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=67 2009-12-04T17:47:34+09:00 hiranabe I attended Agile09 confernece in Copenhagen, where I met great thinkers and a lot of nice people. Tom Gilb is my hero. I was told by Craig Larman that he was the FIRST agile methodologist who had articulated "Evo" with a PDSA feedback cycle in the late 70's. I long wanted to meet him in person. And finally I met him and found he was a passionate gentleman with deep thoughts. Kai Gilb extends "Evo" to more business directions to include stakeholde... http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=65 2009-10-02T15:55:32+09:00 hiranabe I have attended three days of UK Lean Conference held in London. To Agile practitioners like me, it was an eye-opener to a whole wider view of software development. Here's a thought I got. What was Agile to me: Agile was something important missing from "Software Engineering" in the real world software development. Agile found that the bottle neck of software development was not in software engineering part any more(did you read the Demarco&am... http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=64 2009-10-02T03:21:58+09:00 hiranabe I had one whole day free today after the UK Lean Conference, so I wandered around London city this morning. In front of the National History Musium, I met a couple sitting separately on a bench and squabbling with each other badly... The boy seems to be British and the girl seems to be American. Girl: You British always think you are the best in the world ! Boy: You Americans always want to rule the world ! I just happend to pass by. As an Agilista, I suggested to do ... http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=63 2009-07-30T06:51:48+09:00 hiranabe Prof. Ikujiro Nonaka, the grand father of Scrum — he first defined the word "Scrum" with Hirotaka Takeuchi in 1986, as a knowledge creating process in his paper “The New New Product Development Game” — has recently been presenting a new type of leadership found in Japanese management such as Honda, with help from the philosopher Aristotle’s words. I have been practicing Agile/Lean software development in Japan, and found that every Agile/Lean self-organizing tea... http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=61 2009-07-09T17:11:10+09:00 hiranabe While I have been involved in Lean/Agile movement in Japan for these eight years, I have had several chances to talk with Toyota people. Among them, Kuroiwa-san(ex-Toyota manager) who is my Sensei(meaning teacher: although he doesn't like to be called so), one day asked me; Kuroiwa: "Hiranabe-san, what have you learned from TPS(Toyota Production System) ? What is it in one sentence?" Hiranabe: "Flow and Customer pull ?" Kuroiwa: "Maybe.&quo... http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=54 2008-08-15T18:35:14+09:00 hiranabe The biggest event for me was the banquet party. I got 2008 Gordon Pask Award for contribution to Agile community. And I led a group of Japanese to sing the song Dear XP! Thank you very much! (Gordon Pask Award) (Dear XP at the banquet party, Agile2008) http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=53 2008-08-15T18:17:15+09:00 hiranabe Kanban is another emerging topic, I'm catching up with. I met David, Corey, Aaron, and Karl -- "Kanban All Stars" at the conference! This is a photo from workshop led by Karl and Aaron. Corey summirized all the Kanban related sessions in his blog. I think there are two ways to scale out Agile. One is "Tree" type, or Scrum of Scrums type. In this model, strong synchronization of the teams is needed. The other is "River" type, or lean... http://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=52 2008-08-15T17:40:55+09:00 hiranabe Agile UX(User Experience) was the most emergeing and creative edge at Agile2008. Alan Cooper's keynote was about UX, recongizing Agile as the first development approach that makes UX design work. And here are some photos which UX stage people including Peter Roessler, salesforce were doing -- Graffiti Wall. I'm familiar to these walls but, this is awesome. Colored sticky notes are prepared in a box with a colored instruction tents. And post cards. Visual icons...