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Kenji Hiranabe

Kenji Hiranabe

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Kenji Hiranabe is CEO of Change Vision, Inc. Kenji is a Japanese software development consultant and book translator of Lean Software Development, Agile Project Management, and other Agile books. He's also an author of Jude, a UML and MindMap editor software. You can read his blog at http://jude-users.com/en/modules/weblog/index.php?user_id=5. He specializes in agile development, object-oriented software construction and project facilitation.

Company
Change Vision, Inc.
Industry
Computer Software - SaaS
Interests
Design and Architecture
Development
Requirements
Reviews and Inspections
Software Testing
Country
Japan
Kenji Hiranabe

Kenji Hiranabe is CEO of Change Vision, Inc. Kenji is a Japanese software development consultant and book translator of Lean Software Development, Agile Project Management, and other Agile books. He's also an author of Jude, a UML and MindMap editor software. You can read his blog at http://jude-users.com/en/modules/weblog/index.php?user_id=5. He specializes in agile development, object-oriented software construction and project facilitation.

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An example mind map used to plan a project Christmas party Agile Modeling with Mind Map and UML

Requirements gathering—or in an agile context, creating user stories—is always a challenging phase in software development. There are no standard processes or notations defined, only the understanding that the primary factors that make this phase effective are communication and facilitation skills. In this article, Kenji Hiranabe proposes using mind maps that focus on those primary factors when exploring user wishes. Then he takes this concept one step further and models the results with UML.