Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2026
2026-01-07..2026-01-09
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[Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2024, Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2026]
as the organisers put it
15回目となるRegional Scrum Gathering® Tokyoは、2026年1月7-9日の3日間、ベルサール羽田空港とオンラインにてハイブリッド開催します。
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Scrum Deep Dive | Ryutaro YOSHIBA | 23m |
Explains the Scrum Guide 2020 changes to the Daily Scrum: it is a 15-minute daily timeboxed event focused solely on inspecting progress toward the Sprint Goal… | ||
| If Switching from Output Thinking to User-Value Thinking Were That Easy, We Wouldn’t Struggle | Aki Iinuma | 27m |
Explains how to shift from output-focused metrics to measurable user value by building durable practices rather than trying to rewire people. Describes three… | ||
| The Courage to Continue and Cultural Intelligence — Insights from Agile Practice i... | koizumi, Sosuke Koi | 22m |
Three years of bottom-up work in a 250,000-employee group produces a clear playbook: a company Agile guide sits unused for years then becomes helpful to a… | ||
| Accept Complexity or Reject It? — Reflections Facing a Monolith Raised Alongside Business Growth | Kei Ogane | 26m |
A team maintaining an 8‑million‑consultation online telemedicine product built on a monolithic Ruby on Rails app describes how they decide which complexity to… | ||
| Planning Tips When You Don’t Understand Much | Yoh Nakamura | 24m |
Planning for high uncertainty by treating unknowns as first-class items: set a 6-month goal, define milestone steps toward it, and use 1–2 week sprint-level… | ||
| Delivering the Feeling of ‘Release First’: Approaches to Spark Change in Stagnating Teams | Yasuko NAITO | 25m |
A case study of a 30-person product team (formed by merging two groups) analyzes stagnation using Value Stream Mapping, DORA metrics, and a 100-question… | ||
| AI as a Teammate: Redefining Agile for Human–AI Collaboration | Tze Chin Tang | 24m |
Describes treating large language models (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Gemini, Llama) as teammate 'breeds' with distinct behaviors and argues agile… | ||
| Judging ‘It’s About Balance’ — The Path to Technical Excellence Through ADR Practice | Yusuke Uchida, Shota EBARA | 27m |
The talk explains a team's practical use of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) with fields: Context, Decision, Basis of Decision, Consequences, and… | ||
| Syncing Business and Development Norms in Sprint Review | riou tomita, Masahiro Taguchi | 23m |
A Scrum team changed Sprint Review into a weekly business briefing where sales and support bring real consult logs and customer quotes (no slides), which led… | ||
| Five Things a Scrum Master Works on When Joining a Scrum Team — Important Actions Not in the Scrum Guide to Start Doing Immediately | Kentaro Masuda | 24m |
A freelance Scrum Master describes five concrete early actions for joining new Scrum teams: model vulnerability by explicitly saying “Help!” to build… | ||
| The Strategic Answer to GenAI: Empirical Enterprise Evolution | Peter Beck, Andreas Schliep | 59m |
GenAI demands an enterprise-level strategy: adopt AM3’s three doctrines — empirical control, overall optimization, and evolution focus — use Wily mapping to… | ||
| Testing Practices for Generative AI Systems: Focusing on Test Design and Analysis | aki matsuno | 51m |
An in‑car system using generative AI (Gemini and Claude) for hundreds of millions of records and ~100k users requires strict output reliability, so the team… | ||
| The EBM Practice Guide — Toward an Agile Vision That Connects Practice, Goals, and Measurement | Tomoharu Nagasawa | 24m |
Introduces a practical kata for applying Evidence-Based Management (EBM) now by defining three-tier goals (strategic → intermediate → immediate tactical)… | ||
| ‘Two People Struggling in Different Sites’ — How an Internal Community Linked Toyota-Style Agile Practice and What Came Next | Shinichi takeuchi, Miho Fujita | 25m |
An internal chat led to building a company community that created an ongoing agile program and a TAC internal event (started March last year, opened to… | ||
| Continued: More! ‘Cooperate with Customers Rather Than Haggle Over Contracts’ — Results from Trying Outcome-Based Fees and Future Challenges | Kenta Sasa | 50m |
A Japanese software firm describes running a completed client project under a KPI-tied contract that paid by weighted formulas tied to intermediate signals… | ||
| Achieving Both Quality and Development Speed in Toyota’s In-Vehicle Control Software — The Full Practice of Scrum × Test-Driven Development | Daisuke Muto, SHIGENORI SHIBATA | 23m |
The talk describes using Scrum combined with Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Toyota’s in-vehicle control software to reduce integration pain, maintain… | ||
| Why Scrum Fails: It’s a System Problem, Not a Team Problem | Chris Kuruppa | 37m |
The talk argues Scrum fails not because teams lack will but because organizational systems reward control, obedience, and predictability. It gives concrete… | ||
| Becoming a Great Scrum Master by Studying and Applying Psychology — A Learning Cycle Combining University and Community | Satoshi Harada | 50m |
A presenter describes studying psychology at university (third‑year transfer from April 2025) to obtain認定心理士 and an industrial counselor qualification… | ||
| From Auto Parts Manufacturer to Productized Cloud Service at a Large Automotive Supplier | Takashi Aritake | 23m |
A sub-10 person team inside a large auto-parts manufacturer built a smartphone-based safety product called yuriCargo that runs end-to-end from sales to… | ||
| Beyond ‘My Requirements First, Yours Later’: Building a Product Organization That Simultaneously Delivers What Business, Development, and Customers Truly Want | Mori Yuya | 47m |
A method for resolving recurring trade-offs between business, engineering and customers by interviewing people to distinguish actions done out of necessity… | ||
| Scrum Masters Are Not Alone! Communities as Spaces for Recovery and Growth | Yusuke Amano, Emi Kobayashi, Yasunobu Kawaguchi | 54m |
Argues that peer communities are essential, not optional, for Scrum Master survival and career mobility, and describes concrete community practices used over… | ||
| Case study: looking at the agile manifestos from an Organization Development and polar... | jerome bourgeon | 48m |
Reading the Agile and Software Craftsmanship manifestos through Polarity Management shows the original four contrasts expand into eight values and 132 paired… | ||
| Can We Truly Understand Each Other? — Scientifically Examining the PdM and Scrum Team 'Gap' | Takeo Imai | 45m |
Quantitative research measures misalignment between product managers (PdMs) and Scrum teams using questionnaires and statistical analysis of psychometric… | ||
| [Night Session] Beyond Budgeting Dialogue: Theory Meets Practice in Japan | Bjarte Bogsnes, Yuki Hattori, Takashi Shimizu | 45m |
Beyond Budgeting in Japan presents concrete implementations: Hiroshima Bank removed cascaded financial targets in 2023, lets branches set their own targets… | ||
| [Night Session] Innovation Sprint: 15 Years Since 2011 — Ikuro Nonaka and Jeff Sutherland | Yasunobu Kawaguchi, Tomoharu Nagasawa, Kenji Hiranabe, Shuji Morisaki | 01h 11m |
A retrospective describing a 2011 community-run Innovation Sprint that brought Ikujiro Nonaka and Jeff Sutherland together, connecting Nonaka’s SECI… | ||
| Quality Management Systems in the Age of Agile Development | Yasuo Hosotani | 47m |
Mitsubishi Electric describes building an Agile-native quality management system for its Serendie digital platform that achieved ISO 9001 certification… | ||
| Self-Management to Become a Member of a Self-Organizing Team: Motivation Edition | Ikuo Odanaka | 48m |
A team built an AI-driven inventory-management product in 2025 that lowered AWS load and permitted a reduced RDS instance size, and they integrated generative… | ||
| Mindset Mastery: Switching from Fixed Habits to Embracing Agile | Amir Peled | 44m |
An Agile Mindset Kata maps five fields so people write a concrete challenge → assumptions → barriers → shift → try and then run short experiments. The talk… | ||
| Embedding RALGO AI into Your Organization — Algorithm-Centric Organizational Design | kyon _mm, Gota Miyazaki | 50m |
Proposes designing organizations around decision procedures (algorithms) rather than roles, modeling structure as a tree+graph semilattice to make autonomy… | ||
| On the Foundation Built by the Scrum Guide — Expansion Pack’s Complementary Perspectives for Modern Product Development | Sonjin Yamamoto, Ryoko Uchiyama | 41m |
A Japanese translation of the Scrum Guide Expansion Pack (Aug 2025) on GitHub, produced by five volunteers, is presented as a supplement to the 2020 Scrum… | ||
| Rooting Community Culture in Organizations — Promoters and Successors on the Value of Community and Paths to Sustainability | Tomoka Nagai, Yoshiki Iida | 47m |
A company built an internal community program by lowering barriers to participation through proposal workshops, paid preparation time and sponsor tickets, and… | ||
| Twenty Years Doing Scrum in the Countryside (Part II): What It Means for One Person to Pursue Long-Term Agile in a Company | Tomonori Fukuta | 49m |
A practitioner describes building long-term, company-wide Scrum and Agile adoption in a rural setting: growing from one person to a stable Scrum team with… | ||
| The Theory Underpinning Scrum | Kenji Hiranabe | 50m |
Presents a theory-based justification for Scrum using variational free energy/Bayesian inference to show teams reduce surprise by updating models from… | ||
| Optimizing QA Flow to Minimize Time to Release While Meeting Quality Standards | Yuki Shibazaki | 49m |
Explains how a team halved release lead time from 12 to 6 days by moving service QA responsibilities into the development team and running a focused regression… | ||
| The Autonomous Organization We Saw Inside Team Mirai — 'Hands-On' Led to Self-Organization | Yuichi Tokutomi, Ayaka Moribayashi, Akiko Iwakiri | 46m |
Team Mirai built an AI pipeline that converts PDF poster records into CSV and geocoded tiles, then used 91 volunteers to normalize municipal poster-board data… | ||
| Toward Agile Teams in the AI Era — Breaking Out of the 'Scrum' Comfort Zone | Takao Oyobe | 50m |
Proposes reorganizing dev teams into small 2–3 person units paired with generative AI, forming a fractal team structure with dynamic roles to bootstrap… | ||
| Introduction to Real Options through the Product Backlog | Kiro Harada | 48m |
Argues that a product backlog should be treated as a set of real options and ordered to maximize the value of information rather than simple priority. Uses… | ||
| Change 10,000 People, Change Japan!! Multi-Layer Retrospectives for Large-Scale Organizational Transformation | Kazuki Mori | 48m |
A program called multi-layer retrospectives combines four practices—Reflection, Retrospective, Postmortem, and Futurespective—using a semilattice… | ||
| Inscribe Agile into Your Thinking! Agile Practices and Scientific Thinking | Tomoharu Nagasawa | 21m |
Presents evidence that changing team habits matters more than just adopting agile frameworks, citing a 25% success rate overall but showing successful teams… | ||
| The Design Department Built a Community — Creating Spaces That Start with Empathy | Emi Miyazawa | 20m |
A design department formed an internal CXM community (starting ~20 members in 2022) and produced concrete artifacts: a shared vision, three core values… | ||
| That Night We Became 'Human' Again — Disaster Utopia, Gift, and the Reconstruction of Agile | Hiromitsu Akiba | 21m |
Connects Rebecca Solnit’s Disaster Utopia and Mauss’s gift theory to Agile practice by replacing traditional dry standups with a "Good & New" format plus an… | ||
| Why Do Well-Intentioned Efforts Fade? — How Retrospectives Became Decisions That Change Structures Over Six Months | Kazutaka Matsusaki | 21m |
A company MVV (mission/vision/values) rollout began as a volunteer working group but after six months was reorganized into a task force to reduce reliance on… | ||
| The Scrum Master’s First Step Begins with Observation — Find the Thread to Team Improvement | Makiko Ohishi | 18m |
Join a new Scrum team and spend the first two sprints to a month observing actual behavior: sit in mob sessions, Slack huddles and standups, capture factual… | ||
| Growing Teams That Can Withstand Industrial and Organizational Change — Finding a Brighter Future from Team Transformation | Naohito Sasao | 22m |
Musubi AI's inventory team rebuilt documentation into a single source of truth combining external specs, manuals, database and API docs, and introduced a… | ||
| Is That Actually Improving the Team? — An Organizational Experiment Starting from 'What Is a Team?' | Takahito Hirakawa | 18m |
An organizational-development experiment created Team.KAIZEN by merging a team-improvement group with HR to organize people by purpose rather than job role… | ||
| The Journey of Agile Development at Mitsubishi Electric and Our Colleagues | Sho Kurogi, Kei Nakahara, Kumiko Iseri, Yasuo Hosotani, Yoshihiko Araki | 23m |
Mitsubishi Electric’s 20+-year agile journey began with XP-to-Scrum experiments around 2002 and grew into a company-wide effort to create Serendie, a digital… | ||
| A New Translation of the Agile Manifesto | Ryutaro YOSHIBA, Kiro Harada, Kazuyoshi Takahashi, Miho Nagase | 20m |
A team re-translates the Agile Manifesto into clearer Japanese using experience from many book translations and a side-by-side English/Japanese review. They… | ||
| Moving the Enterprise with AI × Agile: Practices that Respect Culture and Expand Business Value | Junki Kosaka, Yosuke Matsuura | 22m |
Presents a four-step roadmap to move AI proofs-of-concept into company-wide Agile adoption by starting small, defining success metrics, and scaling with… | ||
| Effective Collaboration between Platform Teams and Stream-aligned Teams in Team Topologies, as Realized by Monotaro x Creationline | Ryosuke SHIBATA, Yasushi Itoh | 21m |
Monotarou and Creationline describe building an internal platform using an inner-source patternbook, onboarding start guides, contributor-focused… | ||
| Agile Practices Learned from Manufacturing: Preserving the Essence while Adapting to the Shop Floor | Ueto Sahoyuki | 22m |
Describes adapting Agile for manufacturing by redefining the Product Owner so busy stakeholders share product decisions, extending sprints from one to two… | ||
| Why a Consulting Firm Does Agile Development: Power DX through Consulting, R&D, and Development | taku tokunaga | 17m |
BlueGrid is a point-level electricity demand-forecasting platform run by a consulting firm that combines consulting, R&D, and software development. The talk… | ||
| Creating the Moment to Say 'Let's Just Try It' — Effectuation and Generative AI as Keys to Accelerating New Business Creation in Japan | takako kitamura, Megumi Kimura | 19m |
Presents three pilot workshops that combine ChatGPT triadic dialogue with effectuation principles to generate concrete new-business themes using supplied… | ||
| Organizational Inspect and Adapt for a Rapidly Growing Product — Six Months of Scrum@Scale in SmartHR's Labor Domain: Realities and Prospects | Keisuke Wada | 22m |
SmartHR rolled out Scrum@Scale across 16 teams in five areas over six months to enable organization-level inspect-and-adapt; they achieved better progress… | ||
| What I Learned Sponsoring Eight Conferences in One Year | Ryo Tagami | 20m |
Describes sponsoring eight regional conferences in one year using low-tier sponsorships across regions to maximize contacts rather than high-profile buys… | ||
| Facing Our Organization's Philosophy with Scrum | nami nose, Takayasu Toyoshima, Tatsuya Hama | 20m |
A 100-person division treated its organizational purpose as a product and ran a six-month Growth Scrum with one-week sprints, using a Chief PO (business head)… | ||
| The Lineage to Scrum in the Modern History of Software Development — Knowing the 'Why' Builds Confidence | Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI | 20m |
A historical timeline connects artifacts—a 1990 company video, cited papers from the 1968 software crisis through 1976 and 1989, and the Agile Samurai book—to… | ||
| Four Months as a New Scrum Master — Escaping 'Running Scrum Events Without Feeling Any Impact' | Yusei Owatari | 20m |
A new Scrum Master with no prior Scrum experience applied concrete changes over four months: re-reading the Scrum Guide, weekly coaching, enforcing a focused… | ||
| How an Agile Coach Changed a Team That Had Once Given Up on Scrum | Kazuki Yamashiro, Kota Doi, Yoh Nakamura | 20m |
A team that had abandoned Scrum after a large schedule-driven rollout restarted six months later as a pilot with organizational backing and an agile coach. The… | ||
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