Masa K. Maeda

Publications, Keynotes, Conference Talks, and other appearances

1. Masa, Maeda K. “Improving Quality Efficiency and Efficacy with XSCALE.”. Agile Testing Alliance Global Testing Retreat. Pune India. Dec 2019

2. Masa, Maeda K. “A Descaled Approach to Business Agility, Product Management and DevOps.”. Agile Camp, Portland OR USA. Sep 2019

3. Masa, Maeda K., and Steve Ostermiller “High Collaboration Frameworks for Value Added Activities”. Global Scrum Gathering, Austin TX. May 2019

4. Maeda, Masa K. “Enterprise and Business Maturity Through Value-Added Kanban Quantification”. Lean Kanban India conference. Bangalore, India 2018. Jun 2018

5. Maeda, Masa K. “Applied Quantitative Management”. Lean Kanban India conference. Bangalore, India 2018. Jun 2018

6. Maeda, Masa K. “Quality Mindset: the smoothest path to lean-agile transformation”. Global Testing Retreat opening keynote. Pune, India 2018. Jun 2018

7. Maeda, Masa K. “A Systematic Approach to Shaping a DevOps Culture: Lean-Agile for Prosperity”. Opening Keynote for the DevOps++ Global Summit. Pune, India, Sep 2017

8. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean-Agile for Business: a road for digital transformation”. Keynote for Telefónica corporate office. Santiago, Chile, Aug 2017

9. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean Management for Knowledge Work”. Talk at University of Cataluña at Barcelona, Spain, Mar 2017

10. Maeda, Masa K. “Kanban and Behavioral Economics”. Swift Kanban Webinar. Pleasant Grove, Utah, USA, Oct 2016

11. Maeda, Masa K. “2nd Generation Lean Thinking for Value Delivery Innovation”. European Defense Agency Systems. Madrid, SPAIN, Sep 2016

12. Maeda, Masa K. “Agile QA and Its Business Value”. Utah QA Users Group. Murray, Utah, USA, Jul 2016

13. Maeda, Masa K. “Agilism & Quality: what and why” Ecuatorian chamber of commerce and Innovation Center. Feb 2016. Medellín, Ecuador, and Quito, Ecuador. Feb 2016

14. Maeda, Masa K. “A Lean-Agile Approach to Project Prosperity” PMI Silicon Valley Symposium 2015. Santa Clara, California, USA, Oct 2015

15. Maeda, Masa K. “The Serious LeAP Model: Lean-agile for Prosperity” Agile 2015. Washington DC, USA, Aug 2015

16. Maeda, Masa K. “Serious LeAP —Prosperity on your organization—” Talk at the PMI Barcelona chapter. Barcelona, Spain, June 2015

17. Maeda, Masa K. “Maximizing agile with Serious LeAP” Closing Keynote: Regional Scrum Gathering. Quito, Ecuador, April 2015

18. Maeda, Masa K. “Serious LeAP: A lean-agile approach to bring prosperity to your organization” Talk at the Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Trends, March 2015

19. Maeda, Masa K. “QA and its Business Value” Talk at the BBVA Innovation Center. Madrid, Spain, January 2015

20. Maeda, Masa K. “High-collaboration dynamics for better test design” Agile Testing Alliance Global Conference 2014. Bangalore, India, October 2014

21. Maeda, Masa K. “Agile and decision making” Talk for the Ecuador Navy Officers. Guayaquil, Ecuador, July 2014

22. Maeda, Masa K. “Improving Value Management, Generation and Delivery Through Kanban and 2nd Generation Lean” Developer 2014 Conference. San Francisco, California, May 2014

23. Maeda, Masa K. and Bill Dominguez “Serious LeAP” Talk for the PMI Silicon Valley chapter. April 2014

24. Maeda, Masa K. “Serious LeAP: Boosting PMBOK® based Project Management with Lean-Agile” Webinar (guest presenter for Swift Kanban). March 2014

25. Maeda, Masa K. “Variabilidad, Adaptabilidad y Su Impacto Económico en la Internacionalización” Talk at the Deusto Business School of Management. Spain. February 2014

26. Lopes de Ávila, Mario, Masa K Maeda, et al. “España Lean Startup Nation”, Spain 2013.

27. Maeda, Masa K. “Acelerando la Innovación Abierta Ubicua Mediante Lean de 2a Generación” BizFit Conference. Panama City, Panama. October 2013

28. Maeda, Masa K. “Managing Improvement with Kanban” Agile Camp. San Jose, California. September 2013

29. Maeda, Masa K. “Innovación Ubicua Continua en Salud y Farmacéutica” 1er Congreso Internacional de Innovación Tecnológica e Informática en Salud. Mexico City. April 2013

30. Maeda, Masa K. “Rol de Scrum y Kanban en Las Actividades de Gestión” Webinar for the PMI Chile. April 2013

31. Maeda, Masa K. “Kanban Iterationless Approach to Value Delivery” Agile India 2013 Conference. Bangalore, India. February 2013

32. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean-Kanban For Continuous Improvement Management” Webinar for the PMI Information Technology and Telecommunications Community of Practice. February 2013

33. Maeda, Masa K. “How to Avoid Failure or Rescue a Failing Agile Adoption” Agile India 2013 Conference. Bangalore, India. February 2013

34. Maeda, Masa K. “Maduración de la Gestión de Proyectos Hacia la Agilidad” Cono Sur Conference 2012. Santiago, Chile. November 2012

35. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean, Kanban, Jazz and Origami” Closing Keynote at Lean Camp 2012 conference. Madrid, Spain. October 2012

36. Maeda, Masa K. “Abrazando el Cambio” Opening Keynote at Conferencia Agile Spain 2012. Cáceres, Spain. October 2012

37. Maeda, Masa K. “Kanban for Business Portfolio Management” Lean Kanban Southern Europe 2012 Conference. Madrid, Spain. May. 2012. Also Chairman for the Spanish track at this conference.

38. Maeda, Masa K. “Como Hacer a las Empresas Exitosas Mediante Lean y Agile: Keynote” Software Guru Virtual Conference 2012. March. 2012

39. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean Value Innovation” Agile India 2012 Conference. Bangalore, India. Feb. 2012

40. Maeda, Masa K. “Theory of Constraints: A fun and easy way to learn it” Agile India 2012 Conference. Bangalore, India. Feb. 2012

41. Maeda, Masa K. “Kanban Primer” Agile India 2012 Conference. Bangalore, India Feb. 2012

42. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean, Kanban, Jazz and Origami.” Lean Central Europe 2011 Conference. Munich, Germany. October. 2011

43. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean Value Innovation for Technology Businesses.” Agile Conference Mexico 2011. Mexico City. August. 2011

44. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean-Agile Kanban.” Congreso de la Unión, Mexico. Mexico City July. 2011

45. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean-Agile e Innovación Práctica Para Gerentes.” PMI Tour 11, Panamá Conference. Panama City, Panama. May. 2011

46. Maeda, Masa K. “Mejora Evolutiva Agil Para la Gestión de Proyectos.” PMI Tour 11, Panamá Conference. May. 2011

47. Maeda, Masa K. “Value Innovation for Accelerated Competitive Advantage and Maturity.” LSSC11 Conference. Long Beach, California, USA. May. 2011

48. Maeda, Masa K. “Entregando Mayor Valor al Cliente y a la Empresa Mediante un Enfoque Moderno de Calidad: keynote.” Semana de la cultura laboral. Tlaxcala, Mexico. Apr. 2011

49. Maeda, Masa K. “Using Value Innovation to Boost Team Performance.” Cutter Consortium Agile Product and Project Management Webinar. Apr. 2011

50. Maeda, Masa K. “Improving People and Processes: Lean-Agile, Systems Thinking, and the System of Profound Knowledge.” Cutter Consortium Agile Product and Project Executive Report. Apr. 2011

51. Maeda, Masa K. “The Viral Growth of Kanban in the Enterprise” guest editor for the Cutter IT Journal. Mar. 2011

52. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean-Agile Games to Reduce Technical Debt and Improve Productivity” Silicon Valley Code Camp. Oct. 2010

53. Maeda, Masa K. “Kanban in Software Development: It’s Worth Adopting” Cutter Benchmark Review. Vol 10, No.9. Sep. 2010

54. Maeda, Masa K. “El Prisma Lean-Agile.” Software Guru Magazine. Aug. 2010

55. Maeda, Masa K. “The Agile Triangle evolves as a Lean-Agile Prism.” Cutter Consortium Agile Product and Project Management Executive Update. Jun. 2010

56. Maeda, Masa K. “The Lean-Agile Prism: Going Beyond the Agile Triangle.” Agile Journal. Apr. 2010

57. Maeda, Masa K. “WIP: From Limiting Software Development to Balancing the Project.” Cutter Consortium Agile Product and Project Management Executive Update. Mar. 2010

58. Maeda, Masa K. “Lean-Agile: Lo Mejor de Dos Mundos.” Software Guru Magazine. Feb.-Apr. 2010

59. Maeda, Masa K. “Advantages of Using Lean and Agile.” Cutter Latin America conference. Oct. 2009

60. Maeda, Masa K. “Gobierno Corporativo + Agilidad.” Software Guru Magazine. Aug.-Oct. 2009

61. Masa Maeda, Ramon Felciano, and Mike Carl: “A Resource-Constrained White-Box Test Automation Methodology”, Proceedings of the PSQT/PSTT Conference, Orlando Florida, USA, Apr. 2001.

62. Masa Maeda: Unification Filtering for Natural Language and Its Application to Efficient Retrieval of Very Large Knowledge Bases, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Tokushima, Japan, Feb. 1995.

63. Masa Maeda, Hideto Tomabechi, and Jun-ichi Aoe: Unification-Failure Filter for Natural Language, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E78-D, No.1, pp.19-26, 1995.

64. Masa Maeda, Jun-ichi Aoe, and Hideto Tomabechi: Signature-check Based Unification Filter, Software-Practice and Experience, Vol.24, No.7, pp.603-622, 1994.

65. Masa Maeda and Jun-ichi Aoe : Mental Models Representation, 2nd International Computer Science Conference(ICSC '92), pp.78-84, Hong Kong, Dec. 1992.

66. Jun-ichi Aoe, Masa Maeda, and Masami Shishibori: "An Intelligent Language User Interface Cooperating Information Systems", in Proc. of the IEEE 7-th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Antalya, Turkey, pp.271-278, Nov. 1992.

67. Jun-ichi Aoe, Masa Maeda, and Masami Shishibori: An intelligent natural language user interface cooperating information systems, International symposium on Computer and Information Sciences 7, pp.271-277, Paris, Nov. 1992.

68. Shingo Yano, Masa Maeda, and Jun-ichi Aoe: Representation of Psychological Phenomena on MERM, 45th International Conference of the Information Processing Society of Japan, Oct. 1992.

69. Akiko Kita, Masa Maeda, and Jun-ichi Aoe: Representing Quantifications in MERM, 45th International Conference of the Information Processing Society of Japan, Oct. 1992.

70. Jun-ichi Aoe, Masa Maeda, and Masami Shishibori: An Intelligent Command Interpreter -ICI- with a Natural Language Interface, International conference on Intelligent Systems SPICIS'92, pp.525-530, Singapore, Sep. 1992.

71. Masa Maeda, Jun-ichi Aoe, and Hideki Mima: Understanding Demands and Intentions in the ICI Intelligent Command Interpreter, International Symposium on Natural Language Understanding and AI(NLU&AI) As a part of International Symposia on Information Sciences(ISKIT'92), pp.167-173, Iizuka,Fukuoka, June 1992.

72. Masa Maeda and Jun-ichi Aoe : Expansion and Succession in the MERM Mental Representations Model, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on 5th Generation Computer Systems, pp.231-236, Tokyo, June 1992.

73. Masa Maeda: A Model of Mental Representations for Implementation on Automata, M. S. Thesis, University of Tokushima, Japan, Feb. 1992.

74. Masa Maeda, Jun-ichi Aoe, and Katsushi Morimoto: An Intelligent Command Interpreter for Consultation and Use of Information System, Proceedings International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, pp.533-539, Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 1991.

75. Jun-ichi Aoe, Masa Maeda, Hiroshi Kujime, and Katsushi Morimoto: Integrated Processing on An Intelligent Commands Interface with Natural Language Inputs, Symposium of The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, Jan 1991.

76. Jun-ichi Aoe, Masa Maeda, Hiroshi Kujime, and Katsushi Morimoto: Understanding of Commands Using Natural Language Inputs: An Aid to UNIX Systems, NLC90-44, The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, Vol.90 No.375, Dec 1990.

77. Seigo Yasutome, Masa Maeda, and Jun-ichi Aoe: Parallel Semantic Disambiguation for Unification-Based Grammars, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence'90, pp.292-297, Nagoya, Nov. 1990.