Message


œA Message from the CEO


To overcome market challenges -- faster time to market, shrinking resources, higher quality in the face of collapsing time lines -- the software development industry must change the way systems are created.

Software is invisible. A software project is also invisible. The key to changing the software development process is visualization. By visualizing the way we want the systems to end up and where we currently are in the project, every developer in a team can see the shared big picture and understand it together with other team members. That shared understanding should be the starting point of "KAIZEN" (Improvements).

By combining what we call in Japan "MIERUKA" (A visualization method known in the TOYOTA Production System) with Agile software development principles and practices, we will achieve a clear system design and status of your project, and also will help to innovate your products or services, and hopefully by doing so transform your whole business process.

Change Vision, Inc. provides the following two products that visualize ("MIERUKA") software development: ƒJUDE: Agile modeling tool with UML and Mind Map„ and ƒTRICHORD: Integrated Agile team dashboard„. We also provide Agile software development and project management consulting services with the above products.

Our corporate name, "Change Vision" comes from uniting both "MIERUKA to Change" and "Vision for Innovation" which are two core values we offer our clients. With "MIERUKA" we hope to "bring you changes," and "inspire you to change", and "bring innovation" to your business.

Seeing is believing. Would you like to start seeing our products?
Change Vision, Inc.
CEO
Kenji HIRANABE


œEndorsements


"I worked with Kenji on translating my book 'Agile Project Management'. 
 He has a great grasp of the concepts and practices of agile project
 management and development and I wish him well with his new company."


-Jim Highsmith  
The author of "Agile Project Management"



"Hiranabe-san has been a leader in the Japanese Agile and XP (software development)
 movements. He is recognized for having outstanding technical and leadership 
 abilities, and brings to the company the necessary deep understanding of the
 breadth of the field and the particulars of the Japanese culture. He is also 
 sensitive to the human cultural factors involved in evolving an organization. 
 Change Vision is fortunate to have Kenji Hiranabe-san in its leadership team. "


-Alistair Cockburn  
The author of "Crystal Clear"



"All companies face the challenge of transforming the knowledge of individuals into
 the wisdom of teams, then on to the collective vision of the company and the
 common knowledge of the industry. To the extent that companies meet the challenge
 of leveraging knowledge better than their competitors, they hold a significant
 competitive advantage. We have tried many things -documents, blueprints, even
 e-mails and conversations.  But nothing is quite as effective as just the right
 set of concise diagrams and graphs that capture the essence of the situation.
 In the software development industry we have been searching for a common language
 to express knowledge, having discovered that neither documents nor casual 
 conversations are adequate. In ChangeVision we have a great tool for helping us
 visualize the essence of the problem and merge the knowledge of individuals 
 into the collective understanding of the development team."


-Mary Poppendieck  
The author of "Lean Software Development"



"Mr. Hiranabe has been a strong and steady supporter of Extreme Programming
 in Japan since it first became publicly known. He has  communicated and
 adapted XP to make it more useful to Japanese programmers. 
 Now he is bringing XP and other software development improvements to a larger
 market with his tools and consulting services. I look forward to seeing what
 he accomplishes with his new company, Change Vision."


-Kent Beck  
The author of "Extreme Programming Explained"