3. Growing Agile in Japan
2000-2004
XP Impact!
Developer
XP First Project in
eiwa.tokyo(2004)
Manager
But, didn’t reach
XP, Agile
Executive for Manager and
Executive
5. Agile first season
in Japan
• grass-roots
• Translate Web Site
• Try Agile Practice (developer)
• Share knowledge (Community base)
6. Growing Agile in Japan
2005-2007
Developer
Manager Hiranabe
promotes
Project Facilitation
(base on lean concept KAIZEN, KANBAN)
Executive
Project Facilitation is useful not only Agile
project but also Waterfall project.
9. Agile 2nd season
in Japan(2005-2007)
• Project Facilitation movement
• There are some common point in
Project Facilitation and Scrum
• standup meeting, Kanban(Task Borad),
retrospectives, etc...
10. Agile 2nd season
in Japan(2005-2007)
• not yet Scrum movement
• Mainstream is waterfall
• Not incremental and iterative
11. Aside(2005 )
• Ruby on Rails break!
• We start Ruby x Agile
Morohasi is top 3 rails master in Japan
19. Agile 3rd Season
In Japan(2008- )
• Manager, Executive begins to be interested
in Agile
• Reach for 3 roles
• But ....
• There is communication gap Developer,
Manger and Executive