I made it for Open Jam in Agile2008
Table of Contents
● What's Sawada Mansion● What agility are there in Sawa-Man?
What's Sawada Mansion (we called “Sawa-Man”)
● World's Biggest Self-builded Apartment
● It was built by only two people
● Big Building
– 60 rooms
– 70 meters
– 6 stories
● Illegal Building
● There're crane, rice field.
© Tetsuro Kagaya
Who was built by?
● Mr and Mrs Sawada built Sawa-Man
● Only two people!!
● They did everything to build the mansion
Where is built in?
Kouchi city, Kouchi prefecture, Japan
When did it built?
● 1971-1973
– First period
● 1973-1976
– Second period
● 1983-1985
– Third period
● 1985-now
– small rebuilding
1st period
2nd period 3rd period
Why did they build Sawa-Man?
● Mr Sawada set his mind on building an apartment with 100 rooms
– When he was in fifth-grade at junior school.
● He wanted to work at needless mathematics and language
– He was not good at mathematics, language
Build, Live in, Fix, Sell
● They know the domain very well
What agilities are there in Sawada Mansion ?
● Build process
● Team
● Involved Customer
● Embracing Change
Build process
● Iterative
● Incremental
● Concept to Cash
● Build to earn money
1st period
2nd period
3rd period
Team
● Mr and Mrs Sawada were builder
– Not architect
– Not study reinforced concrete
● Cross functional team
● Continuous learning
● Everything was done by themselves
Involved Customer
● They always listen to the residents
● They reply to their demand quickly
● They are residents too.
Embracing change
● They had reconstructed and re-partitioing in Sawa-Man
● They don't hesitate to destroy, change
Some changes
● A slope through the mansion
● A lift to carry materials
● A crane to carry materials
● Flowerbed on the rails
There were a room, but...
There were a spiral staircase, but...
Conclusion
● Sawa-Man is very agile building
– The “Hardware” building can be agile
● Can “Soft”ware learn from Sawa-Man?
● Please visit and see Sawa-Man!!
See also✦ http://giantech.jp/pages/ikitema2/
SawamanForEmZero.html
✦ Article about sawada mansion(Japanese)
✦ http://www.slideshare.net/kkd/wiki-1830146
✦ Explain sawa-man as a building like wiki system.(Japanese)