https://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/ Astah Users Community Site en hiranabe https://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=72 2011-03-27T22:22:00+09:00 hiranabe Here's an example of "User Wish" mind map including "Why", "Who" and "When" branches. Gathering requirements or "User Stories" is always a challenging activity in Agile or in any other approaches. The primary factors that make this activity effective are communication and facilitation skills of the interviewer. In this session, I propose using mind mapping that focuses on ... https://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=71 2010-10-23T00:32:13+09:00 hiranabe At the SPLASH2010 banquet, I sat with Prof. Kyo-chul Kang who is famous for his work on Software Product Line. I tolked him I was from Agile community, then our conversation went to a fun experiment, an exploration for the concept of "Agile Software Product Line" as a desert brainstorming at the table ! Here's the picture of the napkin I took notes on. We decide to first explore "what is it ?" and "what is it for ?&am... https://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=70 2010-10-20T17:51:40+09:00 hiranabe I attended a wonderful workshop "Architecture in an Agile World" led by Dennis Mancl, Bill Opdyke, and Steve Fraser at SPLASH2010 yesterday. Quote:Workshop Overview Agility is important in the business world - but in many problem domains, architecture is valuable too. The combination of agile and architecture-driven approaches is often essential to success - it creates some opportunities for discovering potential problems early in the development cycle..... https://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... https://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 ... https://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... https://astah-users.change-vision.com/en/modules/weblog/details.php?blog_id=66 2009-11-02T14:52:09+09:00 midori astah* Basic Operation Guide has been added astah* website. - astah* Basic Operation Guide This guide shows you the basic operations in astah*, starting with the screen layout of astah*, Model and View Element, and how to create a diagram/model and so on. It is helpful for those using astah* at the first time. https://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... https://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 ... https://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...