An Agile software development practitioner, book writer/translatorCTO of Change Vision, Inc.Board Member of Scrum Inc, JapanCEO of ESM, Inc.I think of software development as a form of collaborative game, and have been searching for better ways to make it more productive, collaborative, and fun.Co-founder of Agile Japan, a frequent speaker at Agile Conferences, including Agile20xx, Agile Japan 20xx, Agile Brazil 2012, Agile India 2013, Agile Korea 2014, Agile Root 2014."People As the Conveyer of Knowledge"https://www.slideshare.net/hiranabe/people-as-the-conveyer-of-knowledge"Kanban Applied to Software Development: from Agile to Lean"http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban"Agile Modeling with Mind Map and UML."http://www.stickyminds.com/s.asp?F=S11861_ART_2I'm co-author (with Ikujiro Nonaka) of “Agile and Scrum: Collaborative Software Development That Connects Customers, Engineers and Management.”Also co-translator of English Agile books into Japanese including:"Lean Software Development"(Mary/Tom Poppendieck),"The Art of Agile Development"(James Shore), "XP Installed"(Ron Jeffries), "Agile Project Management."(Jim Highsmith)"Impact Mapping"(Gojko Adzic)2008 Gordon Pask Award Recipient for contributions to Agile practice.http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/Gordon-Pask-Award-2008-ReceiversI've been developing "astah*"(formerly known as "JUDE"), a UML, MindMap, ERD, and DFD combination editor software.http://astah.netSpecialties: agile software development, project management, software architecture, book writing, object-oriented software design, lean development, lean production, toyota production system, kanban software development