Hakan Erdogmus

Hakan Erdogmus is a software engineering researcher and consultant based in Ottawa, Canada. He is the founder and owner of Kalemun Research Inc. His expertise lies in software development practices and processes and the economics of software development, with a special focus on agile software development. He has been involved in the agile software development community since 2001.

Erdogmus holds a B.Sc. degree from Boğaziçi University’s Computer Engineering Department in Istanbul, Turkey (1986) and an M.Sc. degree from McGill University’s School of Computer Science in Montreal, Canada (1989). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in telecommunications in 1994 from the Université du Québec’s Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS).

Erdogmus first worked at INRS-Télécommunications, Montreal, for a year as a research associate advancing and applying his Ph.D. work on the validation and synthesis of communication protocols. From January 1995 to June 2009, he worked for the Canadian National Research Council’s Institute for Information Technology, a federal government research laboratory. Between 2002 to 2009, he led the Agile and Collaborative Practices and Software Economics research threads in the Software Engineering Group.