Kenji Hiranabe is an Agile software development practitioner and consultant in Japan. He thinks of software development as a form of co-operative communication game, and is always searching for better ways to make it more productive, collaborative, and fun.

2008 Gordon Pask Award Recipient for contributions to Agile practice. CEO of Change Vision, Inc, and Japanese (co-)translator of the books including "Multi-Paradigm Design", "C# Primer", "Lean Software Development", "XP Installed", "Agile Project Management". Also a developer of "JUDE" a UML editor software integrated with Mind Mapping, and "TRICHORD," a Kanban-based Agile project information sharing tool.