Interview with Hakan Erdoğan, CTO @ iyzico

Barış Güler started a wonderful initiative. He interviews with important names of IT sector in Turkey and publishes via Medium. His first guest was someone we know closely. Guess who:) Hakan Erdoğan, CTO @ iyzico.

Here are some highlights from the interview.

We’re always looking for motivated, disciplined and passionate team players who like agile methodologies and technologies

Currently, we have 9 agile/scrum teams having even team member size, most of them are 4 people so that they be pairs. Teams are immutable but pairs are rotatable. We’ve also product owners and agile coach.

We decide technology and architecture as all team.

Since we’re running weekly sprints and aligning weekly for all team (scrum of scrum) all conflicts are resolved fast.

5 main characteristics of a developer: Smart, inquisitive, motivated, disciplined and passionate

For the ones who wants to read all the content, please check Stack Stories: Hakan Erdoğan, CTO @ iyzico blog post.