Speaker: Yunuscan Bartık, Istanbul Aydın University, Türkiye
Date: October 1, 2026, 17:00
Location: MS TEAMS online
Summary
Modern software teams must deliver working products while requirements
keep changing. This lecture introduces Agile as a way of thinking, built
on the four values of the Agile Manifesto: people over processes,
working software over heavy documentation, customer collaboration over
contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a fixed
plan. It then presents Scrum as Agile in practice. The talk covers:
- The Scrum lifecycle: Product Backlog, Sprint Planning, the Sprint and the Daily, Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Iterations and Sprints: short, fixed-length cycles that each end in a working increment
- The Daily: a 15-minute synchronisation focused on the Sprint Goal and on blockers
- The Scrum Team: the roles of the Product Owner, the Scrum Master and the Developers
- Tools for task planning, such as GitHub Projects and Trello, with labels, priorities and a To Do → In Progress → QA/Review → Closed workflow
Real projects illustrate each topic, including the backend for an iOS finance app that shows live gold, currency and market prices.
Speaker
Yunuscan Bartık has worked as a Backend Developer and Scrum Master since 2024. He builds APIs and data pipelines with .NET Core, MS SQL, RabbitMQ and Redis. He also runs sprint planning, dailies and retrospectives, and
turns stakeholder needs into a prioritised backlog.
All interested are welcome! Participation in the lecture is free of charge.