About Me
I am a software engineering researcher and consultant based in Ottawa, Canada. My expertise lies in software development practices and processes and the economics of software development, with a special focus on agile software development. I have been involved in the agile software development community since 2001. I was program co-chair of XP/Agile Universe in 2004, and am the general chair of XP 2010 to be held in Trondheim, Norway.
I have 15 years of post-graduate experience working on software engineering processes with industrial and academic partners and lecturing on a diverse set of topics pertaining to software process, quality, and economics.
I hold an adjuct faculty appointment at the University of Calgary’s Department of Computer Science, where I occasionally teach graduate courses. Since 2007, I have been the Editor in Chief of IEEE Software, where I write a regular column. I am also an affiliate faculty member in the Bogaziçi University Computer Engineering Department’s Software Research Laboratory.
From January 1995 to June 2009, I worked for the Canadian National Research Council’s Institute for Information Technology, a federal government research laboratory. From 2002 to 2009, I led the Agile and Collaborative Practices and Software Economics research threads in the Software Engineering Group. Before joining NRC, I worked at INRS-Télécommunications, Montreal, for a year as a research associate advancing and applying my PhD work on the validation and synthesis of communication protocols.
I co-edited two software engineering books, Advances in Software Engineering: Comprehension, Evaluation and Evolution and Value-Based Software Engineering, both published by Springer.
I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications in 1994 from Université du Québec’s Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS). I hold a M.Sc. degree from McGill University’s School of Computer Science in Montreal, Canada (1989) and a B.Sc. degree from Bogaziçi University’s Computer Engineering Department in Istanbul, Turkey (1986).
I am a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and Agile Alliance.
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