Owen Berkeley-Hill sent me this clip of an interview with Japan Airline’s CEO, Haruka Nishimatsu. I think it’s a great insight into Japanese management thinking; I love Nishimatsu’s response to the interviewers comment on US executives earning tens of millions of dollars. Priceless.
Enjoy.

About Kent :: Kent Beck is the creator of eXtreme Programming and author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Kent was also one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001 and is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI).
Q. What influence, if any, did the Lean revolution taking place in […]

About Mary Poppendieck:: Mary is a former programmer and IT manager turned Lean Software Development Evangelist, Author and Trainer. Mary, with her husband Tom, is the author of the award winning books Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit and Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash.
Q. What does the term […]

Here’s the second installment in my series of interviews with interesting industry luminaries. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to put some SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) questions to Rand Fishkin. What’s SEO got to do with Agile & Lean software development? Quite a lot in my opinion. Agile & Lean teach us to focus […]

This is the first in a series of interviews with industry guru’s who I think are doing some particularly interesting work. Owen has kindly agreed to monitor the comments and respond to any follow-up questions. Enjoy…
About Owen :: Owen Berkeley-Hill is an independent consultant specialising in lean operations and lean transformations. Owen has over 35 […]