The face of Agile in Japan.

Kenji Hiranabe has translated several important books to make them available to the Japanese audience. He has also done original work, applying mind mapping techniques to various activities we normally perform in agile software development.

We chose Kenji to recognize his work, as well as to encourage the exchange of ideas with Japan. Kenji imports and exports ideas as well as people: he arranged for a delegation of a dozen people to come to Agile 2008.