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IREB® is sponsor of the HUSTEF 2024 and Stand Bühne, Managing Director of IREB GmbH, will have a booth on site.
More information about the event can be found under: HUSTEF 2024
The focus is on: Requirements Engineering for AI and Machine Learning Projects, Business Analysis, Agile Approaches, Quality Management.
Eddy Groen, head of the IREB Special Interest Group (SIG) Sustainability, will give a talk with the title ‘Thinking About Sustainability Early’. He will explore how sustainability needs to be integrated into the early phases of software development, emphasizing its crucial role in creating responsible digital solutions.
In addition, there will be many other talks on the focus topics mentioned. More information on the presentations and workshops can be found at Modern RE 2024 and in the Event Guide.
Stefan Sturm from IREB GmbH will be on site.
What are digitalization and AI doing to RE? Or is it the other way around?
The REConf 2025 addresses these and other trend-setting questions and thus offers an excellent platform for exchanging views on current developments and future priorities, focal points such as RE as an integral part of the Digital Design process.
As an association partner of REConf 2025, IREB® will be on site to actively support the ongoing discussions and answer your questions about the CPRE and DDP (Digital Design Professional) certification models. We want to show what future-oriented modern RE looks like and how you can benefit from it.
IREB Community members receive a 10% discount with the discount code REC25_IREB_1635.
Register at https://www.hood-group.com/reconf/anmeldung
The “Mensch und Computer” (MuC) conference is the largest conference series on human-computer interaction in Europe.
Together with Anforderungsfabrik GmbH, IREB is giving there a tutorial on the synergies between Digital Design and User Experience.
You can discover in a very practice-oriented session entitled “Digital Design as a Trojan Horse for UX Competence Development” how Digital Design as a catalyst strengthens UX competence in your organization.
Join Anna Kranzusch and Stan Bühne on 1 Sept. from 9-10:30 for a highly relevant and insightful session!
You can find more information
Join our exclusive joined webinar of IREB and PMI Chapter Poland!
Whether between parts of the organisation, groups of people, methods, or approaches—any silo exist only in your mind! Will you allow them to guide your career?
Review and discuss with Wojciech Dymowski (PMI) and our moderator Karolina Zmitrowicz (IREB) the way to keep methodological adaptation and tailoring in business analyst's role. Explore Practical Tools for Enhancing Collaboration Across Teams involved in business analysis and its outcomes. Discuss the effective use of the variety of available methods and tools from single checklists to GenAI.
More information and registration at Beyond Silos May 28.
Join our free webinar and register.
IREB is information sponsor of the 5th European Business Analysis Day, which will take place online for the first time. The event is all about the topic of AI.
Find more information under the following link: www.ba-day.com
In some organisations, goals even diverge within the same product/project!
This webinar will explore the significance and benefits of effective collaboration between departments that are focused on the same product, service or solution. The aim is to use methods and strategies to achieve better communication between the different teams so that they can better support each other in achieving common goals.
Contents of the webinar with Magdalena Firlit:
Join our free webinar and register here: IREB Webinar May 16
From 1 May to 11 December, A4Q is presenting the Conquest Roadshow in 21 vibrant cities.
You will meet
IREB is a cooperation partner for the event in Stockholmand Lisbon. Stan Bühne, Managing Director of IREB GmbH, will be in Stockholm on 13 June and Ana Moreira, Associate Member of the Council and Working Group Member, will be in Lisbon on 20 June.
Information can be found at www.conquest-conference.com.
Starting, May 1, 2024, certified Product Owners will become eligible for the CPRE RE@Agile – Practitioner certification.
Prerequisite for the participation in the CPRE Practitioner exam for the module RE@Agile:
Check out all the details at www.ireb.org/en/cpre/advanced.
We're thrilled about our upcoming 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗥𝗘 conference, for which we've secured 10 amazing experts to deliver inspiring talks - from the IREB Community for the IREB Community!
An exciting keynote will be held by Peter Hruschka.
Check out the event schedule to see what our experts will cover: Conference Program.
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗕 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗥𝗘 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘄.
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘁:
The title of the REConf 2024 is hitting the bull's eye. AI changes everything.
Through AI, we are moving in a direction where requirements will one day become the immediate input for executable software - the coding will then be done by the AI. The role of Requirement Engineering is growing significantly in importance, and RE is thus the great constant in the current change.
We are pleased and proud to support the REConf 2024 as an association partner.
The REConf 2024 agenda also includes a workshop with Stan Bühne (Managing Director of IREB GmbH), Dr. Dominik Birkmeier, Dr. Martina Beck and Andreas Kress on the topic:
DigitalDesign4RE: How digital material science and holistic design can make you successful as a requirements engineer.
You can find more information under the following link: DigitalDesign4RE
IREB members receive a discount - please contact us, we will give you the promo code.
IREB® is a cooperation partner of the conference. Kim Lauenroth, 1st Chairman of IREB, will be on site and, together with Martina Beck, Ute Nause and Thomas Immich, will give a keynote speech on the following topic: Good digital change needs design - more than ever
The conference will cover themes such as:
The day before the conference, workshops will be offered on topics such as Digital Design and AI-supported design.
Further information on the conference and the program can be found at:
www.dd-ux.de
IREB is sponsor of the REFSQ 2024 and Stand Bühne, Managing Director of IREB GmbH, will be on site for the Education and Training Track.
More information about the event can be flound under: REFSQ 2024
At our roundtable with Martina Beck (CEO at MaibornWolff, Munich), Craig Errey (CEO, psychologist, digital architect, UI/UX designer at Solve Group, Sydney) and Kim Lauenroth (Associate Professor at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts), we will discuss why the terms
falls way too short, sounds too boring, intangible and are often misunderstood when thinking about an attractive and desirable digital solution .
Join our online roundtable on March 12 from 10am to 11am as we analyze the challenges of traditional approaches, decode the complexity of integrated solutions and explore the true nature of digital design. Take an active part in this discussion and ask your personal questions in our expert roundtable.
The roundtable will be held in English and participation is free of charge.
At our IREB roundtable, we will explore the pivotal role of quality models in Requirements Engineering and discuss some key questions:
Take an active part in the discussion and ask your personal questions in our expert roundtable with: Andrea Wohlgemuth (Software Strategy Consultant at Swisslog), Martin Glinz (Prof. emeritus at the University of Zurich), and Eddy Groen (Senior Requirements Engineer and Project Manager at Fraunhofer IESE).
The roundtable will be held in English and participation is free of charge.
Our roundtable on February 8 will focus on key aspects of requirements engineering such as scoping, stakeholder management, conflict management, review and validation and their influence on project success.
Our panelists Calolin Sauer, Isabella Deutsch and Ralph. Chr. Baugartner are experienced experts in the field of IT project management and will provide some inspiring insights. Discover why it's all about value, not just cost, in our discussion on 'Starting Projects Wisely – Scoping is Key.
The roundtable will be held in English and registration is free of charge.
At this event, process models, frameworks, tools, techniques and best practices from different domains (e.g. automotive, banking & insurance, healthcare, aerospace) will take centre stage. The focus here is on requirements engineering, software architecture and software testing.
Rainer Grau, Complex Thinker & Humanist at Smart System Guild GmbH, will give a keynote speech on the topic of "As compliant as necessary, as lightweight as possible".
The event will be held in German and is free of charge.
More information and registration under the following link: IREB & ASQF Roundtabel - Software Engineering in a Regulated Environment
One of the core tasks in Requirements Engineering is to elaborate requirements. But how do I get my requirements? Who are the stakeholders? What is the context and system boundary? How to motivate my stakeholders to tell me what they really need? This and many more questions might rise in your head when you start a project – no matter if waterfall or agile – and you are asked to write down the requirements for the intended product or system.
Karolina Zmitrowicz and Sylwia Kopczyńska are experts in Requirements Engineering and will provide some inspiring insights on how do they come to their requirements. Learn more and join our lively discussion.
The workshop will be held in German. Registration is free of charge.
Register here: www.events.teams.microsoft.com
Together with iSQI, IREB is going on a roadshow. Under the motto "Future of Requirements Engineering", the focus will be on RE from November 27 - 30.
Stan Bühne, Managing Director of IREB GmbH, will be on site. The event offers the opportunity to make contacts, exchange ideas or address questions and concerns.
Participation is free of charge.
Dates and locations for the roadshow are:
-November 27: Bucharest, Romania, The Hotel Marmorosch
-November 28: Belgrade, Serbia, The Hilton Hotel
-November 29: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Courtyard Mariott
-November 30: Riga, Latvia, Grand Hotel Kempinski
More information about the roadshow and registration can be found at isqi-ireb-requirements-engineering-roadshow.
“Response time? Hmmm … as fast as possible!” - Expand your expertise to handle such answers professionally and embark on an insightful journey in the world of quality requirements. Join the IREB Roundtable discussion and unveil quality requirements!
You will join an engaging and thought-provoking session where we delve deep into the realm of quality requirements. Our expert panel is all set to unravel a multitude of perspectives that will transform the way you approach Requirements Engineering.
Our expert panel, comprised of Tom Gilb, Rainer Grau and Karolina Zmitrowicz, all distinguished thought leaders in the RE field, will guide you through the topics around quality requirements.
Register for the free online event that will improve your approach to quality requirements!
Stan Bühne, Managing Director of IREB GmbH will have a booth on site and together with Karolina Zmitrowicz, board member of IREB e.V., he will have a talk on sustainable digital solutions.
Find more information about this event under the following link:
High-quality expert presentations and workshops will provide insights into current knowledge and methods in the fields of agile requirements management, RE in digitization projects, RE and design, and systems engineering.
Hans-Jörg Steffe, member of the IREB board, will give a keynote speech. There he will dispel the myth that RE is not required in Agile, and he will question whether Agile makes a difference in RE at all.
Attend the Modern RE 2023, benefit from the experience reports on new approaches and techniques, and network with participants!
With:
- Stand Bühne, Managing Director of IREB GmbH,
- Norbert Seyff, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
- Kim Lauenroth, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts
- Miriam Julius, Centrigrade, Centigrade UX Academy
Our interactive workshop will focus on how sustainability can be implemented in the development process of digital solutions and which " adjusting screws" enable a sustainable digital solution. Together we want to develop a comprehensive understanding of relevant aspects and outline initial solution ideas in our Brake-Out Sessions.
The workshop will be held in German. Registration is free of charge.
More information about about the event, the agenda and registration can be found at the following link:
Requirements Engineering is not just about documenting requirements, but rather about working with people, understanding their needs and fears, and creating a very clear and shared understanding of the planned solution among all stakeholders involved. For this, mindfulness is a key competence.
We are happy to have Kathy Berkidge (Agile Consultant and Mindfulness Coach) and Kim Lauenroth (RE & Digital Design Expert) as discussants at our IREB Roundtable, to discuss how to apply mindfulness to be more effective and actually more satisfied with the results.
Register for the free online event at (the event will be held in English):
Cyber Security is a major challenge in our digital environment, where mostly everything is connected to the World Wide Web and is becoming more and more important.
How to come to a more secure digital solution?
This will be discussed by Kraolina Zmitrowich (RE expert), Grzegorz Skrzyński (security expert) together with Stan Bühne (Managing Director of IREB GmbH) at our Roundtable on July 20.
The web participants are invited to ask their own questions and participate in the discussion.
Register for the free online event now at:
With:
Karolina Zmitrowicz - Experienced Requirements Engineer and member of the IREB Executive Board, and
Sylwia Kopczyńska - Experienced Software Engineer and Researcher
Before writing good requirements one of the essential questions is, what is a “good requirement”.
Karolina and Sylvia approach this and other questions in their roundtable to show what defines a requirement as good and how to get to good requirements at all!
The web participants are invited to ask their own questions and thus take away specific tips for themselves from the discussion.
Register for the free event:
With:
Yelle Lieder (adesso SE), Linda Schmeißer (andagon People GmbH), Norbert Seyff (FHNW, UZH, member of the IREB Council), Melanie Vogelpohl (DBU), Dr. Joachim Weber (Fraunhofer IESE)
Sustainability and sustainable solutions have become a core topic in today's discourse - rightfully so! However, there is a lot more untapped potential lying at the intersection of sustainability and software development that could greatly contribute to sustainability goals.
That's what this online roundtable is all about. An impulse talk will be followed by a panel discussion in which the online participants can ask their questions and share their own insights!
More about the event, panelists and free registration at
In cooperation with the Austrian Testing Board (ATB), we are excited to host our 1st joint Requirements Engineering and Testing Event - the RE & Testing Community Day - in Vienna.
The event is intended to be a place for exchange between Requirements Engineers and Testers with interesting presentations and enough space for networking. It will start on June 15 at 2:30 pm and end at about 8:30 pm after some snacks and good networking.
More information on the event, the agenda and registration at: RE & Testing Community Day in Vienna
IREB® is a cooperation partner of the conference and will be represented with a booth. Stefan Sturm, COO, and Dr. Kim Lauenroth, 1st Chair of IREB will be on site.
The conference program includes workshops and talks on the following topics:
More information about the event and the program can be found at:
www.dd-ux.de
"How it goes on in projects - Faster, higher, further. Tomorrow, nothing will be the same as it is today."
The adaptation to the ever faster progressing development is one of the major challenges in the implementation of projects. This year's spm spring conference will focus, among other things, on how to meet these changes as an opportunity and benefit from artificial intelligence.
The IREB management, represented by Stan Bühne and Stefan Sturm, will be on site.
IREB members receive a discount - just ask us for the promo code!
Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB GmbH, will have a booth at the congress from May 24.
Requirements are practically a constant in the project world. Without requirements, there can be no useful development - whether plan-based or agile. But in times of technological changes like these and in the context of advancing digital transformation, the aspects that make up good requirements engineering are all too often ignored - with the corresponding negative consequences.
A strong RE community is a lighthouse for process and development matters and it is exactly this community that our conference aims to strengthen and promote.
Meet the French RE community, RE experts and members of IREB in an international environment and expand your network.
ps_testware supports IREB in organizing this event in Paris.
More information about the event, the agenda and registration at:
IREB® is again an association partner of REConf 2023.
Stan Bühne, Managing Director of IREB GmbH, will be on site to answer your questions about the CPRE education and the DDP education.
Stan Bühne (IREB GmbH) and Andreas Kress (Hood Group) will offer a workshop at this year's REConf in Munich as well - the title is:
„Digital Design: Was Digitalisierung mit dem Bauhaus verbindet“
Why do many digital solutions still seem wooden, less integrated and thought-out, and why do we still find it so difficult to design good digital solutions today? These are questions that will be worked out in the workshop.
Register at REConf/Anmeldung.
IREB Members are granted a 10% discount.
Rabat-Cod: REC23_IREB_1918
The Unconference will focus on identifying and discussing smart ways of collaboration when it comes to the design of digital solution. As usual, there is no predefined agenda – the topics will be set by the participants.
This time the keynote will be held by Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck!
Don’t miss his inspiring presentation and the opportunity for intensive discussions with participants from the most diverse areas.
We are looking forward to seeing you the Unconference 2023!
Conference language is German
One of the goals of digital design is to take a holistic view.
At the Digital Design Webinar, which we are holding together with our partner iSQI, Stan Bühne, Managing Director of IREB GmbH and Norbert Seyff, FH Nordwestschweiz will discuss how digital design can help create sustainable digital solutions and how they must to be designed to achieve social, economic and environmental sustainability.
Participation in the webinar is free of charge. The event will be held in English.
More information at: sustainable-digital-design-webinar
The CPRE Advanced Level RE@Agile Practitioner examination can now also be taken in Portuguese (Brazil).
The syllabus as well as a practice examination are available in Portuguese (Brazil) in the download area.
The 4th BA-Day will take place again this year in Eschborn/Frankfurt am Main. The following tracks will be offered under the motto "Sustainability in Disruptive Digitalization ":
There will be a panel discussion on the subject "Requirements Engineering and Business analysis - How this relationship develops in digital times " from 4 to 5 pm. Stan Bühne (IREB) will discuss together with our other speakers Keith Ellis (IIBA), Norbert Seyff (FH Nordwestschweiz) and Reiner Wendt (masVenta) the relationship between requirements engineering and business analysis and why they cannot be separated.
More information about the event, the agenda and registration you will find at: BA-Day 2023
There is also the possibility to join this event online.
How do Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture influence one another? This will be one of the questions to be discussed. With these two disciplines in focus - Requirements Engineering and Software Architecture -, the Roundtable will also address how cooperation works in practice and what needs to be improved. A deep dive into these questions can produce important answers for almost any project.
The Roundtable is a joint event of IREB and ISAQB (International Software Architecture Qualification Board). The event will be held in English.
Here you will find more information!
From November 14 to 17, 2022, the annual conference highlight "iSAQB® Software Architecture Gathering" welcomes you again as an exclusive online event. Participants can expect over 50 inspiring keynotes, exciting sessions and practical workshops with (internationally) renowned speakers from the software architecture scene.
The conference is a meeting place and knowledge platform for all those working on solution structures in IT projects: primarily software architects, developers and quality assurance experts, but also system analysts who want to communicate better with their developers.
For more information on the program, speakers and ticket booking, please visit www.conferences.isaqb.org/software-architecture-gathering.
IREB® is sponsor of the „iSAQB® Software Architecture Gathering“. The promocode " SAG22_IREB_15" will grant the IREB Community a 15% deduction on the registration fee.
This panel discussion will focus on Requirements Engineering (RE) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) under the following questions:
We will have exciting impulse talks and panelists from science and practice.
Impulse talks will be given by Dr. Gergana Baeva (iRights-Lab) and Rik Marselis (Sogeti).
This physical conference is dedicated to the state of the art, the technologies, the solutions and the experiences to achieve the best quality of software intensive products and services through new organizational, methodological and technological approaches.
Free access to the Conference, Technical Workshops about solutions and products, Exhibition Area for who devotes particular interest in Business Analysis, Requirements Engineering and Testing for software products and services.
Modern RE is a conference that focuses on agile requirements management.
For years, requirements management followed classical methods, mostly based on the V-model. But with the increasing complexity of software and hardware projects as well as shorter and shorter release cycles, there is a growing demand for other (agile) approaches - agile requirements management is becoming more and more important.
During three days, the different techniques of integrating requirements engineering into agile projects, field reports as well as ways of combining classical approaches and agile techniques will be discussed.
RE’22, the 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, will again be held virtually this year.
The Swiss RE’22 Hub is an RE'22 spin-off and a physical local gathering in Kloster Kappel near Zurich.
We will jointly attend the RE’22 main conference and hold a local RE workshop around the conference sessions. Don't miss the opportunity for direct and manifold discussions and networking in person.
We invite Requirements Engineering professionals and experts from Switzerland and neighbouring countries to participate in the Swiss RE’22 Hub.
As the number of participants is limited we recommend to register soon.
IREB is pleased to be a cooperating partner with SPM at this year's Spring Event.
The unconference will address those digital design topics that are of particular interest to the participants - in a spontaneous and competent manner. There is no predefined agenda, the topics will be set by the participants.
What is already known is the keynote speaker: Renato Verdugo!
Renato Verdugo is a New York–based User Experience Researcher at YouTube where he focuses on understanding and documenting the everyday lives of YouTube Creators. His background in both computer science, and aesthetics & art history merge in the visual ethnography practice he has pioneered at YouTube; in his research, documentary photography and storytelling become tools and vehicles for UX insights. More recently, he founded & leads YouTube's Culture Lab, a research group focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion topics.
The keynote will be of course in English, discussions can be held in German or English – you decide 😉.
Be curious about this special event in the format of an unconference and register!
Register now via swissICT.
Stan Bühne (IREB GmbH) and Andreas Kress (Hood Group) are holding a workshop at this year's REConf in Munich on the topic of
Digital Design: Digital Transformation Requires a Holistic Approach.
Learn more and register at: unter DDP Workshop
IREB® is again an association partner of REConf 2022.
Stan Bühne, Deputy Managing Director of IREB GmbH, represents IREB on site and will hold a workshop on April 25 together with Thomas Kress from Hood Group on the following topic:
Digital Design: Digital Transformation Requires an Holistic Approach
Learn details at: REConf Workshop
The key change from the previous version is in Chapter 6, which is about scaling RE@Agile. The new syllabus and the new handbook provide clear guidance on how Requirements Engineering is embedded in the work with agile frameworks.
The update to the CPRE AL RE@Agile module is intentionally timed to coincide with the split of the AL exams.
To remind you: As of July 1, 2022, the multiple-choice test and written assignment will become two independent exams, each of which will be awarded its own Advanced Level certificate.
IREB is splitting the CPRE Advanced Level certificate, previously awarded for the combination of a successful multiple-choice exam and written assignment, effective July 1, 2022, and introduces two new certificates instead: the CPRE Advanced Level Practitioner certificate and the CPRE Advanced Level Specialist certificate.
That’s new as of July 1, 2022
A corresponding certificate will be awarded for each Advanced Level exam passed:
Prerequisites for the new certificates
That’s new for the Written Assignment
The task descriptions for the written assignment of the different CPRE Advanced Level modules will soon be provided for download on the IREB homepage. Candidates will be able to inform themselves in advance about the required contents and decide, if and when they would like to take the CPRE Advanced Level Specialist exam.
The previous twelve-month period between the multiple-choice exam and the submission of the written assignment will no longer apply.
That is staying the same
The contents of the CPRE Advanced Level syllabi, handbook and exams remain unchanged, so preparing for the exams can be done as before!
Resume
The current CPRE Advanced Level exam will be available until June 30, 2022. As of July 1, 2022 there will exist two independent, sequential exams with the changes described above. See also the graphic with a comparison of the old and the new CPRE Advanced Level exams and certificates and the FAQs.
Further, more in-depth information will be continuously added to the IREB website. Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed.
We are pleased to welcome Olivier Denoo, testing expert and president of the ISTQB, to our IREB-Roundtable.
In this episode of the IREB Roundtable we will focus on questions like: What are the challenges of RE and testing in agile environments, what is the added value of involving testers early, what is the value of user testing, how does RE help to test solutions properly, in which testing activities (user, compliance, security, ...) a Requirements Engineer would need to do more upfront work, why is close collaboration between testers and requirements engineers essential for increasingly complex solutions? And many more!
Curious?
Participate for free and register for our IREB-Roundtable!
More than 10,000 CPRE certificates are now registered in the CPRE Registry on the IREB website.
This represents about 10,000 people who, on the one hand, make their achievements visible with their registration and, on the other hand, use the professionalism and reputation of IREB for themselves.
For us, these are 10,000 clear commitments to IREB. That makes us proud and motivates us!
This time we are excited to welcome two User Experience experts: Britta Karn (Senior UX Manager at Centigrade GmbH) and Thomas Immich (Managing Director of Centigrade GmbH) as well as one of the Digital Design pioneers of the first hour: Kim Lauenroth (adesso SE) being our guests at the IREB-Roundtable.
At the IREB-Roundtable, we will discuss the positioning of UX - with a focus on user research - in Digital Design and Requirements Engineering. Asking questions like: sense and nonsense of prototypes in UX? What are the differences between a user journey and a customer journey – and where to use what? What comes first, user story, user need or …? How to come from user research to a final product without exploding costs?
Curious?
IREB hosts a BITMi on Tour event together with the competence centers IT-Wirtschaft and Usability. We are looking forward to an interesting program around the topic of digital transformation and offer a bright mix of keynotes, workshops and short impulse presentations that invite you both to reflect and to participate.
Here a short program excerpt:
Curious? You can find the detailed program on the registration page!
NOTE: this event will be in German
Introduction to the IREB CPRE together with our partner Visure, for our community in North America.
Join us for this FREE, 1-hour joint webinar to learn more about:
Digital transformation poses a whole new set of challenges when it comes to identifying requirements and designing solutions. Agile process models are common practice, but they are not sufficient to address these challenges.
In their talk, Stan Bühne and Stefan Sturm highlight important aspects and show how the new CPRE Foundation Level 3.0 in combination with the Digital Design Professional helps to tackle the challenges.
Safe the Date!
In our first live roundtable discussion, Stefan Sturm (Managing Director of IREB GmbH) will talk with the two digitalization experts Marcus Trapp (Fraunhofer IESE) and Kim Lauenroth (adesso SE) about essential conceptual and design competencies in the digital age and how Digital Design and Requirements Engineering are interrelated. Marcus and Kim have been working as practitioners in digital transformation projects for many years and are looking forward to sharing their experiences regarding the design of digital solutions.
Don't miss this exciting roundtable discussion on Requirements Engineering and Digital Design and safe the date. More details will follow later this month!
The Advanced Level Elicitation has been published in French today.
spm - the independent, leading professional association in project management will be hosting a spring conference in Zurich on 16 June 2021. IREB® is cooperation partner of the event.
The topic of the spring conference 2021 is project management in new working environments. Driven by the pandemic, analogue processes and hierarchies shift into digital spaces requesting online collaborations.
Seven speakers from different disciplines and with different experiences in project management will talk about the new principles of cooperation – in a networked project world between people, machines and complex processes to enable project teams working successfully together in future.
The conference language is German. The event takes place in Zürich. Participants can join online as well.
This year we had the privilege to be one of the co-chairs for the Industry Track of REFSQ 2021 and we are looking forward to an exciting Industry Track on April 14, 2021. The Industry Track of REFSQ 2021 offers a full-day program with great speakers who will take you on an inspiring and fact-filled journey through different disciplines of the topic "Ethical Aspects and Human Factors in and beyond RE". See yourself!
Professional Requirements Engineering is a key success factor. The figure of 70,000 CPRE exams underlines this statement. The CPRE certification scheme originated in Europe, where the first exam was taken in February 2007. Since then, the education has gained worldwide interest and acceptance, so that today IREB proudly looks at CPRE certified professionals in 85 countries – ranging from North and South America, Europe, Sudan, Mozambique, Mauritius and other African countries to Asia and Australia.
This spread proves the worldwide demand for deep understanding of Requirements Engineering and for professionalism in this key discipline.
It also shows that IREB has succeeded in keeping the certification scheme in sync with the evolution in RE through the addition of Advanced Levels, Expert Level and the integration of agile approaches.
The education provides professionals with valuable hands-on help in their RE tasks today just as it did 14 years ago.
Here are a few voices from CPRE-certified individuals on how they perceive the added value of the education:
“Being a CPRE has given me the necessary knowledge to constantly deliver fit-for-purpose software requirements. A further result of applying the methodology is raising the bar in the Business Analysis department.” - Ana Vasilecu
“Requirements Engineering, based on the CPRE qualification, enables us to monitor and criticize the life cycle of system requirements, from the definition of the system context to the post-deployment.” - Maurício Campos / Cosin Consulting, Brazil
“We observed greater efficiency in the consultants’ work, less frictional loss, and ultimately better requirements.” - Frank Engel / relationshipper, Germany
Statements like the above and the number of more than 70,000 CPRE Foundation Level candidates are a strong motivation for IREB to continue developing the CPRE certification scheme to further professionalize RE.
IREB's ambition - as an independent non-profit organization - is to continue to play the leading role in RE education.
Learn more about the CPRE certification scheme at CPRE Basics
The International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB®) and the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®) have allied to further promote the Requirements Engineering and Software Testing professions together.
The IREB® and the ISTQB® qualification schemes are closely related and each organization supports the qualification of professionals in their respective subject domains based on the current state of practice.
With both certification programs recognized throughout the world, many software quality professionals already obtain both the IREB® Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) and the ISTQB® Certified Tester (CT-FL) training and certifications. Hence, by aligning the terminology taught in the two qualification schemes, professionals will gain a consistent view of testing and requirements engineering.
The first joint project between IREB® and ISTQB® has been to establish alignment between their respective Glossaries - the list of terms and definitions used to underpin their subject domains.
IREB® and ISTQB® have successfully reviewed their Glossaries and aligned the terms that are used in each, and IREB® and ISTQB® are pleased to announce the publication of these newly aligned Glossary releases dated October 2020: the the CPRE Glossary version 2.0 and the ISTQB® Glossary version 3.5.
“Together with IREB®, we have identified an overlap of 75 terms used in both Glossaries. To our great satisfaction, many of them were already consistent. At ISTQB®, we have adjusted the definitions of 6 quality terms, and removed 19 requirements engineering terms from our Glossary, referencing the IREB® Glossary instead. These changes are now implemented in English, other supported languages will follow soon.” – said ISTQB® Glossary Working Group Chair Matthias Hamburg.
“This alliance is of strategic importance for us because it supports professional excellence. I thank the joint team for the successful work in aligning the terminology. We are committed to further strengthen the compatibility of the two qualification schemes.” – said ISTQB® President Olivier Denoo.
“We are happy to have reached this important milestone in an excellent cooperation. The new CPRE Foundation training will be based on our new Glossary v2.0. But time does not stand still. We will keep in touch to maintain and improve compatibility.” – said IREB® Council Chair Prof. Dr. Martin Glinz
Media Contact:
Sebastian Malyska, ISTQB® Marketing Working Group Chair, sebastian.malyska@istqb.org
Stefan Sturm, IREB Gmbh Managing Director, Stefan.Sturm@ireb.org
About ISTQB®
The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®) was founded in November 2002 and is a non-profit organization, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, whose mission is to advance the software testing profession. ISTQB® has defined the “ISTQB® Certified Tester” scheme that has become the worldwide leader in the certification of competencies in software testing. It is supported in its mission by 66 member boards serving 106 countries worldwide. As of May 2020, ISTQB® Exam Providers have conducted over 995,000 exams, issuing over 721,000 certificates that are valid worldwide.
ISTQB® is an organization based on volunteer work by hundreds of software testing experts around the world.
To find out more about ISTQB® visit: www.istqb.org
At the weekend we received the sad news that our honorary member Emmerich Fuchs has passed away, already on November 14th after a long and serious illness. Unfortunately, the news does not come as a surprise, Emmerich had to give up more and more of his activities in the last years due to the serious illness. Nevertheless, it is painful.
Emmerich was committed to IREB for many years. He helped shaping the Foundation Level from the very beginning and was a valuable discussion partner - professionally and personally. He paid special attention to the examination questions and here he made a significant contribution to ensuring that they exist in the well-known high quality. Wherever in the world a person takes a CPRE multiple choice exam, Emmerich's work is the basis for it.
Even though Emmerich was not able to personally attend the meetings of the working groups and the IREB General Meeting due to his illness, he was still interested and contributed actively. In recognition of his services to IREB, the General Meeting of the IREB e.V. appointed him as the first honorary member in 2018. We will keep Emmerich in honorable memory, we will miss him very much and we will miss his wise contribution. Our sympathy goes to his family.
In order to enable CPRE examinations without going somewhere, IREB has permitted remote exams for a limited period until June 30, 2021. Depending on how the situation with the Corona virus evolves this period might be extended.
If dedicated countries continue to impose curfews, IREB allows remote proctored exams in these countries until one month after the end of the curfew.
In connection with an online or virtual training, successful certification is thus possible even during the current curfews!
Talk to your training partners or certification body! You will find them via the links below!
IREB monitors the quality of the remote proctored exams and will decide afterwards whether they can be continued in the future or not.
Due to the extraordinary situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting impact on the professional and private life, the completion time for the written assignment can be extended once by 6 months upon request and with justification. The process of application and obligation to provide proof remains valid. Details can be found in the examination regulations, paragraph 5.2.
We are happy to announce that IREB will launch the updated CPRE Foundation Level 3.0 in English and German on October 1, 2020!
From October 1, 2020 until March 31, 2021 exams in English and German for the CPRE Foundation Level certificate can be taken both, based on syllabus version 2.2 and syllabus version 3.0. Candidates may choose. From April 1, 2021 on, exams in English and German for the CPRE Foundation Level certificate can only be taken based on syllabus version 3.0!
As of now exams for the CPRE Foundation Level certificate in all other available languages are still conducted based on syllabus version 2.2. These exams will be switched to syllabus version 3.0 as soon as the translations are available. Of course, there will be a grace period of 6 months for each language where candidates can choose to take the CPRE Foundation Level exam based on syllabus version 2.2 or 3.0. This grace period will be defined for each language individually, depending on the date when the exams in that particular language are available.
We are still working on a handbook for the Foundation Level, similar to the handbooks for the CPRE Advanced Level modules. This handbook will be provided for free download on the IREB website. We hope to be able to provide it in October 2020.
Together with the CPRE Foundation Level syllabus 3.0 we will also publish a new version of the CPRE Glossary, which is aligned with the new syllabus version and as well to the ISTQB glossary.
In order to enable CPRE examinations without going somewhere, IREB has permitted remote exams for a limited period until December 31, 2020. Depending on how the situation with the Corona virus evolves this period might be extended.
If dedicated countries continue to impose curfews, IREB allows remote proctored exams in these countries until one month after the end of the curfew.
In connection with an online or virtual training, successful certification is thus possible even during the current curfews!
Talk to your training partners or certification body! You will find them via the links below!
IREB monitors the quality of the remote proctored exams and will decide afterwards whether they can be continued in the future or not.
In summer 2017, we conducted a survey to investigate the relevance of the existing CPRE Foundation Level certification version 2.2. This survey reflected that the existing Foundation Level syllabus v2.2 generally still serves the most important needs of the market and imparts the relevant RE knowledge to the candidates. Nevertheless, we received feedback that several techniques are no longer used in practice, whereas others are missing in the search for more iterative and adaptive development. This feedback was in line with IREB’s own perception of the changes in the field of Requirements Engineering. We have therefore decided to create a major revision of the CPRE Foundation Level syllabus, removing outdated content and adding new elements.
We are now happy to announce that IREB will launch the updated CPRE Foundation Level 3.0 in fall 2020! The exact date is not yet fixed, but we aim for October. Stay tuned, we will inform you as soon as the date is fixed.
There will be a grace period where candidates can choose to take the CPRE Foundation Level exam based on syllabus version 2.2 or 3.0. This is to ensure that candidates who prepare for the exams right now (based on syllabus version 2.2) will be able to go for the certification, even if version 3.0 is already launched when they are ready to take the exam. This period will be 6 months from the launch date of the Foundation Level 3.0 in a certain language.
In the beginning we will launch the Foundation Level 3.0 in English and German for sure. Other languages may be launched at the same time depending on the progress of the translation. If the syllabus version 3.0 in a certain language is not yet available, when we launch version 3.0 in fall, version 2.2 will stay in place for that language until the translation is available. Once the translation is available and launched, there will be as well a grace period of 6 months, where candidates can choose whether they want to take the exam based on syllabus version 2.2 or 3.0 in that particular language.
We are working on a handbook for the Foundation Level, similar to the handbooks for the CPRE Advanced Level modules. This handbook will be provided for free download on the IREB website.
Together with the CPRE Foundation Level syllabus 3.0 we will also publish a new version of the CPRE Glossary, which is aligned with the new syllabus version and as well to the ISTQB glossary.
Stay tuned!
Cancelled due to the Corona crisis!
spm - the independent, leading professional association in project management will be hosting a spring conference in Zurich on 14 May 2020. IREB® is cooperation partner of the event.
The topic of the spring conference 2020 is project management in new working environments in analogue and digital spaces.
Six speakers from different special fields and with different experiences in project management will talk about the new principles of cooperation in a networked and mobile project world between people, machines and complex processes (conference language: German).
Europe’s leading conference on Software Quality will take place 2020 in Vienna.
IREB® is association partner of the Software Quality Days 2020 and will have a booth at the event.
One of the biggest conventions on software quality in Europe invites to Vienna for the eleventh time now. One track will be focused on the key subject exclusively:
"Quality Intelligence: Software Quality in the absence of well defined Requirements"
Further tracks cover the topics such as quality intelligence, quality in production, quality management, industry challenges and collaborations and so on.
A workshop will take place 1 day before the start of the conference starts.
IREB® is association partner of the Modern RE in Berlin.
The event organizer describes the event as follows:
"Modern RE is a conference that focuses on agile requirements management and integrates the participants into the program with an innovative concept. Over three days the different techniques within agile requirements management, experience reports as well as approaches of the combination of classical procedures and agile techniques will be discussed. The conference program is divided into contributions for beginners and advanced participants."
From idea to requirement: the conference for those who create products.
IREB® is association partner of the second international conference for Business Analysts, Requirements Engineers, Product Managers and Designers, Usability Specialists, Project Managers and Startupper.
Hans van Loenhard, Second Chair of the IREB e.V., will hold presentations on the topics:
IREB® is organizational partner of the Italian Software Testing Forum in Milan.
Three days are dedicated to the state of the art, the technologies, the solutions and the experiences to achieve the best quality of software intensive products and services through new organizational, methodological and technological approaches.
Free access to the Conference, Technical Workshops about solutions and products, Exhibition Area for who devotes particular interest in Business Analysis, Requirements Engineering and Testing for software products and services.
IREB® is sponsor of the 2nd European Analysis Day and will have a booth at the event.
Topics of the event:
One day before the conference the following workshops will take place:
IREB®, represented by Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of the IREB GmbH, is association partner of the REConf 2019 in Munich and will have a boot at the event.
Dr. Kim Lauenroth, First Chair IREB® e.V., will hold a presentation on the topic: Beyond RE is Digital Design
On April 1, 2019 the Advanced Level Elicitation syllabus version 2.0.0 will become valid! It is already available for download!
There will be a transition period from April 1, 2019 until June 30, 2019 where multiple-choice examinations can be taken either according to the current syllabus version 1.0 or to the new version 2.0.0.
From July 1, 2019 on multiple-choice examinations can only be taken based on version 2.0.0 of the syllabus.
If the multiple-choice examination was taken on basis of syllabus version 1.0 the written assignment must be submitted by June 30, 2020 at the latest. In any case, the deadline for submission of written assignments according to the CPRE Advanced Level examination regulations applies.
Please note: IREB has defined new cognitive knowledge levels which have been applied to this syllabus!
The English version of the handbook is currently under final revision and will be published before April 1, 2019. The German translation of the handbook will follow soon.
The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®) and the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB®) have entered into an alliance to further promote the software testing and requirements engineering professions together. As a first step both organizations have agreed to align their glossaries. The alignment will include the summarizing of the ISTQB® and IREB® terms, as well as adapting the ISTQB®/IREB® glossaries to accommodate the alignment.
"ISTQB® and IREB® are two organizations aiming to improve the quality of IT processes and products. They operate in different areas: ISTQB® in software testing, IREB® in requirements engineering. These areas interact and complement each other, allowing both individuals and organizations to have a more comprehensive view of software quality. Establishing cooperation between ISTQB® and IREB® is the first step towards systematization and further standardization of software production processes" - said Karolina Zmitrowicz, ISTQB® President.
"As the leading software testing certification globally, within ISTQB® we see significant value in working within the alliance with IREB® for us, our training providers and our candidates. By initially creating the inclusive software quality glossary this will improve communication throughout the software development process" said Geoff Thompson, ISTQB® Vice President.
"Software Testing and Requirements Engineering are co-located professions. Tying up with ISTQB®, fosters our leadership role in building better software. We see this as a natural step in developing software that is efficient and of the highest quality" said Kim Lauenroth, IREB® Chairman.
Mr. Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB®, added - "The alliance with ISTQB® will bring a strong asset to our Training Providers. It demonstrates that the two most important certification schemes for software quality go hand in hand."
The timetable for the alignment of the glossaries is to be determined, but is expected to be complete in 2019. The aligned glossaries will be available from both ISTQB® and IREB® upon completion.
For more info see the media release and the alliances page.
Europe’s leading conference on Software Quality will take place 2019 in Vienna.
IREB® is association partner of the Software Quality Days 2019 and will have a booth at the event.
One of the biggest conventions on software quality in Europe invites to Vienna for the eleventh time now. One track will be focused on the key subject exclusively:
The complexity and challenges of Software Engineering and Software Quality in the Cloud
Further tracks cover the topics of quality, effectiveness and efficiency in system and software development.
Today we have provided the prerelease of the updated Advanced Level syllabus Elicitation to our Training Providers.
The handbook is undergoing a final review and will be provided to our Training Providers as a prerelease soon.
The schedule is as follows:
The module was renamed and the term “consolidation” removed, as it is not really appropriate.
The Advanced Level Elicitation and Consolidation certificates keep their validity.
Stay tuned, more info will follow!
IREB is supporting the Agile Tour 2018. IREB members of the RE@Agile working group will have talks there and Ellen Gootesdiener is doing a workshop
IREB® will be present at the event with a booth.
reQuest 2018 - new conference on business analysis.
reQuest is an event which offers space for meetings and sharing passion, knowledge, innovations and ideas. The main idea behind our conference is request for inspiration - we kindly invite you to become a part of this inspiration!
The conference is addressed to all people involved in or interested in requirements engineering and business analysis. We take up topics interesting for both management and engineers, business and IT, customers and vendors. There will be a lot of practice and theory which is prerequisite for creating good practice.
Today IREB has published the German version of the Advanced Level RE@Agile Syllabus on its website.
In addition, a minor update to the English version (1.0.1) of the syllabus has been published. We have just fixed some typos and formatting/wording issues.
Furthermore the exam questions for the Advanced Level RE@Agile (English and German) have been delivered to the exam providers, exams are possible as of today!
The handbook for the Advanced Level RE@Agile is in the final approval process and will soon be published in English. The German translation will follow shortly.
The trial exam is also in the approval process and will be published as soon as possible.
IREB® is association partner of the first international conference for Business Analysts, Requirements Engineers, Product Managers and Designers, Usability Specialists and Project Managers in Ukraine.
From idea to requirement: the conference for those who create products.
Hans van Loenhard, Treasurer of the IREB e.V., will hold presentations on the topics:
On the day before the conference, Hans van Loenhard will hold a ThinkStage'18 Master-class on the topic RE@Agile: how to apply business analysis in Agile environments. Learn more at: thinkstage. com. ua/en/masterclass-reagile/
IREB® is sponsor of the 1st European Analysis Day.
Topics of the event
Dr. Kim Lauenroth, First Chairman of the IREB e.V., will give a presentation with the title "RE goes digital design" on the main topic Agile Business Analysis.
The speakers of the event are renowned international experts and bring with them profound, practical knowledge from a wide range of fields.
IREB® is sponsor of the 24th Intl. Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
Hans van Loenhard, Treasurer of the IREB e.V., will hold a presentation on the topic: RE, the Next Generation
Following the conference, the annual general meeting of IREB® takes place on site.
IREB® is association partner of the REConf 2018 in Munich and will have a booth at the event.
Dr. Thorsten Weyer, Vice Chair of the IREB® Council, will hold a keynote on the topic: RE in the age of digitisation and autonomous systems
During the testing/validation of the CPRE Expert Level exam, two candidates passed the complete exam successfully:
They are the first two worldwide to be awarded the CPRE Expert Level Certificate.
Congratulations!
This year the bbc 2017 takes place in Orlando.
IREB®, represented by Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of the IREB GmbH, is sponsor of the bbc 2017 and will have a boot at the event.
Dr. Kim Lauenroth, First Chair IREB® e.V., will hold a presentation on the topic: RE goes Digital Design - A New Understanding of Requirements Engineering (RE) and Agile Development for Digital Transformation
On October 24 Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB GmbH will answer questions to IREB and the CPRE certification scheme at the SOPHIST days in Nuremberg, Germany.
IREB is association partner of re:work - smart requirements engineering in Berlin.
The re:work - smart requirements engineering is organized by we.CONECT.
This event offers a platform for Requirements Engineering decision makers, who want to stay on the ball.
Leading experts share their experience and expertise in requirements engineering and provide insights into successful strategies and solutions.
IREB is co-organizer of the "Design meets IT“ event, 4. Mai 2017, 10:00 -17:00 Uhr, DORTMUNDER U, Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität, Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund.
Today almost all products are "designed" and RE is part of this process! See the event page for more info (German only)
IREB is supporting organization
Today the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) is launching the 2017 Business Analysis Salary Survey which will provide valuable insight into salary trends for business analysis and related business professionals across a variety of functions and industries.
As a strategic partner of IIBA, we are pleased to support the distribution of the survey to our community and seek your input to the survey.
The survey will take place between April 19th and May 3rd, 2017 and should take approximately 5 to 8 minutes to complete. Your participation is anonymous and confidential.
A new IIBA 2017 Business Analysis Salary Survey Summary Report will be made available on iiba.org. after the survey closes.
Thank you for your support and for providing your insight.
If you have any problems accessing or completing the survey, please email brand@iiba.org.
The 9th French Testing Day 2017 will take place in Paris.
The Comité Français des Tests Logiciels -CFTL- is organizer of the event.
IREB® will have a booth together with GASQ.
Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of the IREB® GmbH will meet our partners to inform about the fusion of IREB® and REQB®.
IREB, the leading expert committee in the discipline of Requirements Engineering, is association partner of REConf® 2017.
“For us as organizer of REConf, it is very valuable to rely on a partner who stands worldwide for profound Requirements Engineering” states Rupert Wiebel, CEO of Hood Group.
Stefan Sturm, CEO of IREB GmbH, says: “It is IREB’s declared goal to establish professional Requirements Engineering worldwide. So we are pleased to actively support the REConf as partner, especially as the REConf is the most important RE conference in German-speaking countries.”
Information about the REConf and the call for papers at https://www.hood-group.com/en/reconf/call-for-papers
Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB® GmbH is pleased to meet many members and partners of the ISTQB during this event.
In 2017 the 23rd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering takes place in Essen/Germany on 27th February - 2nd March.
IREB® is regular sponsor of the REFSQ. Following the conference, the annual general meeting of IREB® takes place on site.
Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB® GmbH and Dr. Kim Lauenroth, First Chair IREB® e.V., will introduce the RE@Agile certification scheme. Our partner iSQI is supporting us in the organization of the event.
Place: Aristo, Utrecht, Netherlands
The program:
14.00 – 14.30 arrival, coffee and tea
14.30 – 14.45 welcome
14.45 – 15.15 RE@Agile: aim, audience, content and planning with Stefan Sturm and Sven van der Zee (Senior Requirements Analyst at Nederlandse Spoorwegen)
15.15 – 15.30 break
15.30 – 16.00 Requirements Engineering and Industry: the future of RE with Dr. Kim Lauenroth
16.00 – 16.15 closure
We look forward to meeting you on February 16th! Please confirm your attendance until 3rd of February by sending an email to Natasja de Schipper.
The event will be held in Dutch language, major parts will be in English language!
Four qualification boards have joined forces to launch the "Shaping the Future with IT" initiative, whose aim is to create an interdisciplinary body of knowledge fit for the challenges of software development in a digital society.
Information technology (IT) is no longer merely a tool to support existing processes. IT in and of itself now helps to shape innovative human interaction, work, organisations and our entire society. In order to meet this increased responsibility, four qualifications boards with different training focuses have joined forces to launch the "Shaping the Future with IT" initiative:
The aim of this initiative is to use the smart orchestration and integration of the four key disciplines of IT development in order to take active IT design to the next level - allowing associates to attain all knowledge required for shaping the future responsibly and sustainably through IT.
The necessity of this initiative stems from nearly 50 years of IT history, characterised by the emergence of numerous specialised subjects and disciplines and reflected in today's even wider variety of IT professions. The "Shaping the Future with IT" initiative's rationale is to counteract the trend towards a silo mentality in the management of knowledge and to provide an adequate response to both the increasing ubiquity of IT in our daily lives and the incessant shortening of innovation cycles. This development of IT from a tool to an innovator over the last few years has made it necessary to apply an increasingly cross-disciplinary approach to IT work, as propagated by agile process models for instance.
The four boards involved will have a shared stand at the OOP conference for software architecture held in Munich from 30 January to 3 February 2017 (1.16 to 1.19).
Coordinating body: Stefan Sturm, IREB, Stefan.Sturm@ireb.org.
A common purpose
IREB® and REQB® pursue the same general goal: to improve and foster professionalism in Requirements Engineering (RE) by providing a RE certification scheme with education syllabi and certification examinations.
Similar approaches
The certification schemes, which IREB® and REQB® have developed independently of each other, have similar names – CPRE® (Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering) by IREB® and REQB® Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering. This caused confusion and has at times been misleading. Also, their respective foundation level syllabi coincide in their content to a significant extent. This has finally resulted in the decision to concentrate forces within a single organization.
Joining forces
Given the common goal and the similarities in the two approaches, IREB® and REQB® have decided to join forces as of January 18, 2017. As a consequence, there will be a single RE certification scheme in the future, presented under the IREB® brand.
Benefit for candidates seeking RE certification
For candidates striving for more professionalism in RE, one single education scheme to become a Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering is a big benefit, as the weight and reputation of the certificate will become even greater than it already is today.
Effect on REQB® certificates
All REQB® certificates keep their validity.
Holders of the REQB® Foundation Level certificate may convert it free of charge into an IREB® CPRE® Foundation Level certificate.
Such conversion is required for persons who want to follow their education path to the IREB® CPRE® Advanced Level modules.
For the IREB® CPRE® Expert Level, the REQB® Advanced Level certificate will be accepted as one of the required prerequisites.
For more info on the timeline and consequences for Training Providers, Candidates and Trainings see the FAQ!
IREB will be present at the event with a booth.
IREB is regular sponsor of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. In 2016 the conference takes place September 12-16 in Beijing/China.
IREB has released minor updates of the handbook and the syllabus of the Advanced Level Requirements Modeling. German and English documents are completely aligned now and a topic “Association classes” has been added to EU 3.3. Furthermore, a couple of typos and grammar issues have been fixed.
You may download the new versions from the download section.
With effect from 1st August 2016 IREB has changed the regulations for CPRE Foundation Level and Advanced Level examinations.
The changes apply to the multiple choice tests and are in particular:
For details check out the new versions available in the download section
IREB has published an updated english version of the Handbook for the AL Modeling.
The modifications are mainly related to grammar aspects.
IREB will have a booth at the event.
iRECON 2016 VIRTUAL International Requirements Engineering Conference on Fri, 10th Jun 2016 - Earn 6.5 PDUs/CDUs
Gain knowledge and earn 6.5 PDUs/CDUs by attending the iRECON 2016 VIRTUAL International Requirements Engineering Conference on Fri, 10th Jun 2016, organized by IREB Germany in cooperation with the India IREB community.
An outstanding lineup of globally renowned speakers and a set of interesting talks! The event is scheduled especially for Asian timezone, all times are in IST (Indian Standard time). Here is the agenda- you need to register for each session individually in order to gain the PDUs/CDUs (see as well the document for download below):
"See you" at the conference!
IREB will have a booth at the event. Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB GmbH, will have a talk together with Dr. Beate Schaupp from Serview GmbH about Requirement Engineering in IT Service Management.
With effect from August 1st, 2016 (included) IREB will change the examination regulations for multiple choice exams:
For details please see the new exam regulations
This change applies to both, CPRE Foundation Level and Advanced Level examinations!
IREB is supporting organization
IREB is Sigs Datacom’s favorite partner for the OBJEKTspektrum information days, resulting in an official association partnership.
As organizer, Sigs Datacom has appointed an advisory board, Dr. Kim Lauenroth and Dr. Thorsten Weyer, with the task of selecting themes and speakers for this conference. Both are IREB members (executive board and council).
Furthermore Frank Engel, Sven Krause and Urlsula Meseberg (all associate members of the IREB) will have talks.
IREB is regular sponsor of the REConf and will be present with a couple of partners. Dr. Kim Lauenroth, treasurer of IREB GmbH, will participate on March 1st in a panel discussion entitled "RE is out, long live Design Thinking".
Stefan Sturm, the managing director of IREB will visit partners and customers in Delhi and Bangalore.
The event is organized by TÜV SÜD South Asia.
The IIBA leadership team has invited Stefan Sturm, the managing director of IREB, to the official conference of IIBA in Las Vegas. During the conference IIBA will again present and explain in detail the partnership with IREB to its members. Stefan Sturm will represent IRAB and will work on the concrete design of the cooperation together with the IIBA leadership team.
On October 20 Sibylle Becker, Head of Marketing of IREB GmbH will answer questions to IREB and the CPRE certification scheme at the SOPHIST days in Nuremberg, Germany.
IREB is host of the industry track of the second Pacific Requirements Engineering Symposium in Wuhan, China. Stefan Sturm, the managing director of IREB, together with Dr. Yong Xia will have a talk on the CPRE.
IREB is currently developing a module which builds a bridge between agile development and Requirements Engineering.
With this module IREB shows that RE and Agile are not a contradiction. The targeted integration of RE with agile processes supports the key concern of software development in a sustainable way: efficient production of good software, which meets the user’s desires and needs.
The module imparts knowledge to RE professionals of how to apply known RE techniques in an agile context. Agile professionals will gain knowledge on the relevance of agile practices in RE and on how agile practices can usefully supplement RE techniques. We will provide information about the development status at irregular intervals.
RE@Agile will be available for the training market from summer 2016.
IREB sponsors the event and runs a booth together with iSQI
IREB is regular sponsor of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. In 2015 the conference takes place August 24-28 in Ottawa/Canada.
IREB and IIBA have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to mutually promote and advance the discipline of Requirements Engineering and the discipline of Business Analysis as complementary approaches.
“The IREB CPRE® and IIBA’s CBAP®/CCBA® certification programs perfectly complement each other,” said Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB GmbH. “Working closely together is a logical step, which the community has been asking for. The cooperation between IREB and IIBA will help both organizations to offer increased added value to the Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis communities.”
“By working together towards a common set of goals and priorities, we will build greater connections, support and value to the organization’s Members, Chapters, partners and key business stakeholders.” said Stephen Ashworth, President and CEO of IIBA.
For more info see alliances and the IIBA website
IREB is sponsor of the BA Convention on July 23 and 24 in Bangalore, India. IREB is running a booth with support from Mr. Prasad Kamath.
IREB will have a booth at the event. The promocode "Aktion-IREB" will grant you a 10% deduction on the registration fee.
We will raffle 3 CPRE Foundation Level exams provided by our partner CERTIBLE at the evening event on July 15.
Within the IREB Academy Program IREB sponsors non-profit organizations for projects which are related to Requirements Engineering. See the related page for details.
Webinar "Demystifying CPRE" by IREB in cooperation with TÜV SÜD South Asia.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM IST (Indian Standard Time)
Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of the IREB GmbH, presents IREB and the CPRE certification scheme.
IREB is regular sponsor of the REFSQ. 2015 the conference will be held March 23rd - 26th in Essen.
IREB is regular sponsor of the REConf. 2015 the conference will be held from March 16th -19th in Munich. IREB will be present with a couple of partners. Together with Ralph Young, Stefan Sturm will have a workshop about international cooperation in RE.
Stefan Sturm, the managing director of IREB will talk about the CPRE on the SASTQB TEST-IT 2015 in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
On October 20 in the evening Stefan Sturm, the Managing Director of IREB GmbH will participate in a round table discussion about IREB ® and the CPRE ®.
IREB sponsors the event and runs a booth together with iSQI
IREB sponsors the event and runs a booth together with iSQI
IREB is regular sponsor of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. In 2014 the conference takes place August 25th - 29th in Karlskrona, Sweden.
IREB is sponsor and will be available in the W-Lan lounge.
IREB is regular sponsor of the Swiss Requirements Day in Zürich, Switzerland.
IREB is sponsor of the BA Convention on May 29 and 30 in Bangalore, India. IREB is running a booth with support from Mr. Prasad Kamath and Mrs. Nilisha Bansodkar. Mr. Prasad Kamath is doing a talk for IREB as well.
IREB has a joint booth together with iSQI.
Stefan Sturm talks about "Requirements Engineering – Key factor for projects success" (German)
With the fast world-wide growth of the CPRE scheme, more internationally renowned RE experts join IREB.
Additionally a new executive committee has been elected that reflects the international structure of IREB:
We thank Chris Rupp and Karol Frühauf for their long contribution in IREB as 1st chair and treasurer within the executive committee of IREB. The intensive and engaged work of Chris Rupp and Karol Frühauf as founding members of IREB is an significant contribution to the high quality and success of the IREB certification schema. We are happy that both continue their engagement as active IREB Board Members!
IREB has published an article about Requirements Engineering and Agile Development where we demonstrate that the CPRE knowledge is not outdated under the view of agile development. Instead we are convinced that the methods, techniques fostered by IREB are a natural part of the daily work in agile environments – probably applied differently in sequence and emphases.
Regular meeting of the personal IREB board members and annual general assembly of the IREB association.
IREB is regular sponsor of the REFSQ. 2014 the conference will be held April 7th - 10th in Essen.
IREB is partnering the the 3rd Edition of its Systems Symposium in the Paris area the 27th of March, organized by IBM Rational.
This will give you the opportunity to discover or learn more about the most recent Rational products developments, to exchange with your peers and get feedbacks from the field on the use of the Rational solutions, and finally to meet experts from IBM Rational as well as from Business Partners to discuss practices, technologies, projet outcomes or new standards.
Stefan Sturm holds a talk "Certification in Requirements Engineering, does it make business sense?" at the Requirements Engineering Conference in Warsaw.
IREB is regular sponsor of the REConf. 2014 the conference will be held from March 10th -13th in Munich. IREB will have a booth and hold a workshop "Anforderungen erheben und modellieren auf Basis der CPRE Advanced Level Lehrpläne"
This webinar addresses attendees in Asia, Africa and Europe. It‘s scheduled at
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
This webinar addresses attendees in Asia, Africa and Europe. It‘s scheduled at
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
This webinar addresses attendees in East Asia. So it‘s scheduled at
7:30 pm New Zealand Standard Time (NZST)
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
Today we have published the Chinese Foundation Level practice exam! Chinese exams will be available early in 2014!
Stefan Sturm, the managing director of India will visit partners and customers in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Delhi.
Today we have published the Chinese Foundation Level Syllabus, the Glossary and the exam regulations! The documents can be downloaded from the download section. The practice exam will follow soon. Chinese exams will be available early in 2014!
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
Stefan Sturm (Managing director of IREB GmbH) will serve as the IREB expert at the Premium Partner Event of iSQI in London.
IREB ist Sponsor der BusinessAnalystWorld Konferenzserie
On November 5th in the evening Stefan Sturm, the Managing Director of IREB GmbH will participate in a round table discussion about IREB ® and the CPRE ®.
Gesprächsrunde zu Themen rund um IREB® und das CPRE®
Am 5. November wird Stefan Sturm, der Geschäftsführer der IREB GmbH in einer Gesprächsrunde zu Themen rund um IREB® und das CPRE® Rede und Antwort stehen.
Das Handbuch richtet sich sowohl an Trainingsanbieter, die Seminare zur Anforderungsmodellierung nach dem IREB-Standard anbieten wollen, als auch an Trainingsteilnehmer und interessierte Praktiker, die einen detaillierten Einblick in den Lehrstoff dieses Advanced-Level-Moduls und in die Anforderungsmodellierung nach IREB Standard erhalten möchten.
Dieses Handbuch ist kein Ersatz für Schulungen oder Lehrbücher zu diesem Thema. Es stellt vielmehr ein Bindeglied zwischen dem komprimiert gehaltenen Lehrplan (der lediglich die Lernziele des Moduls nennt und erläutert) und der Vielzahl an Literatur dar, die zum Thema Anforderungsmodellierung in den letzten Jahrzehnten entstanden ist.
Derzeit liegt das Handbuch nur in deutscher Sprache vor. Das Handbuch kann im Downloadbereich heruntergeladen werden.
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
On October 17th Mr. Rainer Grau, second chair of IREB, will give a lecture "Effective Requirements Engineering – something that is never too old fashioned" at the Hungarian Software Testing Forum in Budapest.
It is the aim of the magazine to provide the RE community with technical information and to be a platform for discussion. Therefore, everyone is welcome to submit articles.
Here you will find the call for papers and the procedure for submitting articles.
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
15th KKIO – Polish Conference on Software Engineering will take place from 18th to 20th September 2013 in Szczecin, Poland.
IREB is sponsor of the event. We have a booth there and a few CPRE related talks.
Lecture by Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB GmbH, about the importance of Requirements Engineering for project success and the contribution certifications can add to it.
This webinar is focused on IREB® CPRE-FL®, the most popular certification for business analysts and requirements engineers globally. You'll know everything you ever wanted to know about the certification. Get ready to jumpstart your career.
Here's what you'll see on the webinar:
IREB is Sponsor of the BA Convention (July 25th- 26th) in Bangalore, India. IREB will have a booth at the conference to inform the attendees about IREB® and the CPRE®.
IREB is regular sponsor of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. In 2013 the conference takes place in Rio de Janeiro.
IREB organizes a roadshow regarding the CPRE in Benelux in cooperation with iSQI. The event will be in English language with focus on
The dates for the roadshow are
We’ll provide details about the schedule as soon as possible.
To register for either date please send mail at events@ireb.org.
IREB has published an article on ModernAnalyst.com which covers to essentials of the CPRE
The British Computer Society offers a variety of diploma for professional development. Within the diploma Business Analysis there is a certificate Requirements Engineering. This certificate has pretty much overlap with the CPRE Foundation Level certificate. Therefore BCS and IREB have closed an agreement about mutual recognition of these certificates. Read more on the partner page…
The next date for the webinar serious "Demystifying the CPRE" is on April 5th at 8:30pm IST. See the registration page for details.
IREB has terminated the contracts with both organizations REB India Ltd and REB India and Singapore (SGREB) regarding performance of CPRE certifications.
After April 22th 2013 they may neither conduct CPRE exams nor issue CPRE certificates.
The CPRE certificates issued by both organizations remain valid!
Exams are now conducted by TÜV Süd South Asia or iSQI. Please see the list of the Certification Bodies and filter for India!
In 2013, RE comes to South America for the first time! Submission deadlines start in January 2013, the call for papers is already out and IREB is planning to contribute as well.
In addition to the usual Research and Industry papers, workshops, tutorials, panel sessions etc., IEEE is also seeking submissions to a special "RE@21" category; a chance to reflect on the contribution of the RE conference series to both requirements engineering research and practice as it comes of age with the 21st RE conference. Furthermore, IEEE introduced "RE Interactive", which offers new ways for RE participants to get involved and interact throughout the conference.
IREB is planning some activities arround RE conference with our partners in Brazil. We'll post more soon!
The Polish working-group of IREB has worked very hard on that topic during the last months. The Foundation Level Syllabus is now available for download in six different languages.
Today IREB has published the examination regulations for the Advanced Level modules in English language.
The English version of the syllabus for the Advanced Level Module Requirements Elicitation and Consolidation will be published soon and English exams for this Advanced Level module will be available before end of 2012!
Today the CPRE-Glossary with an additional cross reference in Italian has been published!
IREB has provided an example examination for exam preparation for download. Besides the questionnaire with 34 questions the download package contains evaluation aids as well.
The example examination enables candidates to check their knowledge in respect to the CPRE Foundation Level examination.
More and more companies are aware of the benefits from sound requirements engineering (RE) and as a consequence let their employees CPRE-certify. There is a worldwide increasing demand for the CPRE certificates, and at the same time we receive requests for a “Quality Seal” for companies, that have invested in the CPRE certificate of their employees.
Exactly these companies are addressed with the Partner Program, which IREB launched today. It offers companies the opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to the CPRE standard. The IREB Partner Program with seals in silver, gold or platinum honors companies for their particular interest in requirements engineering and supports them to differentiate in the competitive environment. Moreover the Partner Program increases the public perception of the CPRE certificate, thus helping reinforce the value of this standard.
Today the CPRE-Glossary with additional cross references in Polish and Swedish has been published!
Chris Rupp, first chair of IREB will have a keynote there. Rainer Grau, second chair of IREB, and Kim Lauenroth will do a full day tutorial regarding requirements analysis, conversation and documentation aligned to the IREB body of knowledge!
Full day tutorial regarding requirements analysis, conversation and documentation
Today a minor update of the Foundation Level Syllabus has been published. In chapter 6.6 the term context diagram has been added
Today the CPRE-Glossary with an additional cross reference in Dutch has been published.
Today the CPRE Foundation Level-Examinations in Spanish language have been released and delivered to the Certification Bodies. As of now Foundation Level examinations can be taken in Spanish language; this is another important step in the internationalization of the CPRE. Special thanks go to our Spanish Supporting Members for their invaluable contribution!
In January 2012 more than 250 Foundation Level examinations have been conducted. This is very remarkable because the increasing trend is continued where the number of exams normally dropped in the first three months of a year. In particular the international figures have been very high which gives much motivation for the upcoming months.
IREB is gold sponsor of the Czech Test conference in Prague on March 1st and 2nd. We will have a booth and a presentation where we will introduce IREB and the CPRE. The goal is to increase the awareness of IREB in Eastern Europe. The testing community has high demand for high quality requirements and is therefore an important audience for IREB!
In total
Internationally the number of certifications has increased by nearly 100%!
On February 9th there will be an RE event with strong IREB participation at Rennes. Camille Salinesi (IREB Board Member) and Daniel Lucas-Hirtz (IREB Supporting Member) will point out the importance of the CPRE for the standardization of the education in Requirements Engineering. Details (French)…
The group IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) is the official networking group of IREB in English language. Subgroups in other languages will be created soon.
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This is another high valuable contribution of our supporting members and the result of the continuously increasing worldwide spreading of the CPRE.
The Brazilian working-group of IREB has worked very hard on that topic during the last months. The Foundation Level Syllabus is now available for download in four different languages.
IREB's CPRE certificate is gaining worldwide success and it appears that especially the testing community is very interested due to the need of high quality requirements.
Therefore IREB decided to present itself at the EuroSTAR conference in Manchester on November 24th. The booth of our cooperation partner iSQI will be totally branded for IREB and the CPRE on this day. All interested persons are invited to meet us there and discuss with us.
Currently the exam working group, supported by our French supporting members, is working on the translation of the of CPRE Foundation Level examination questions to French. The first examinations in French are planned for autumn 2011.
Currently the exam working group, supported by our Brazilian supporting members, is working hard on the translation of the of CPRE Foundation Level examination questions to Portuguese (Brazil). The first examinations in Portuguese (Brazil) are planned for autumn 2011.
IREB experiences a strong request for the CPRE in Asia at the moment. Certifications will be started in several countries still in 2011.
The cross-reference of the glossary in French and Portuguese (Brazil) are expected to be available before end of September 2011!
Currently the syllabus working group, supported by our Brazilian supporting members, is working hard on the translation of the of CPRE Foundation Level Syllabus 2.1 to Portuguese (Brazil). The release is planned for September 2011.
In the course of the rapid international development IREB has licensed IBQTS as an additional certification body for Brazil. The first exams will be held in September 2011!
The manifold activities of IREB lead to an increasing request of certification bodies and training providers as well as to a worldwide growing number of supporting members. Therefore IREB has created the area “International” on its website where brief overviews of IREB’s activities are published in different languages.
Das offizielle Prüfungsvorbereitungsbuch des IREB e.V. zum Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering Foundation Level geht ab Juni 2011 in die dritte Runde. In der 3. Auflage wurden Definitionen an die aktuelle Version des IREB-Glossars angepasst und kleinere Fehler behoben.
Das Buch eignet sich zur individuellen Vorbereitung auf die Zertifizierungsprüfung und als Begleitliteratur zu den entsprechenden Vorbereitungsschulungen.
Direktlink zu Amazon.de:
http://www.amazon.de/Basiswissen-Requirements-Engineering-Weiterbildung-IREB-Standard/dp/3898647714/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1309942689&sr=8-2
The responsible working group at IREB for the CPRE Advanced Level "Requirements Elicitation and Consolidation" has made a few corrections in its syllabus. The changes resulted from feedback from the growing CPRE market. The new version of the syllabus (1.0, 1st June 2011) can be downloaded (the changes can be found on the pages 23, 24 and 39).
IREB will be at SOFTEC 2011 in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) this year. Chris Rupp (First Chair IREB) and Stefan Sturm (Managing Director IREB GmbH) will hold together the CPRE Tutorial „Cultures Speaking the Same Requirements“ on July 6th. In addition Chris Rupp will hold a keynote at the conference.
The official exam preparation book for the CPRE Foundation Level is now available in English: "Requirements Engineering Fundamentals" equates exactly its German version "Basiswissen Requirements Engineering" (3rd edition, which will be released by the end of June 2011) and can already been ordered. The english book is directed to all interested persons in CPRE who do not speak German as their native language.
Today IREB has published a completely revised version of the Glossary.
Version 1.1 has been totally reworked and is aligned to the most recent editions of the German and English CPRE books. The latest edition of the English book (1st edition) has been published in April 2011, the latest edition of the German book (3rd edition) will be published in June 2011.
Karlsruhe, April 19, 2011 +++ On April 1st, 2011, the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB e.V.), initiator of the "Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering" (CPRE) certificate, has founded IREB GmbH to run its operational business. The managing director of IREB GmbH based in Karlsruhe is Stefan Sturm. On behalf of IREB e.V., the new company aims to promote standards in requirements engineering training to create an internationally understandable, consistent and recognized basis for communication. IREB e.V. has become an internationally acknowledged expert body for the certification of persons skilled in requirements engineering in the meantime. For carrying out software projects successfully, the discipline of requirements engineering is crucial. The reason for this is the fact that mistakes during the elicitation and documentation of single requirements for a solution and the lack of communication between software providers and enterprise customers are the main causes for the failure of software projects. With both software providers and customers having qualified CPRE professionals in their own ranks, they can jointly formulate a consistent and detailed catalogue of requirements for software development and can also lay the foundations for its success right at the start of a project.
The International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB e.V.) was established in 2006 by leading members of the requirements engineering scene from science, research, business and consulting. The neutrality and quality of the CPRE certificate initiated by IREB e.V. are guaranteed by means of strict separation between the development of syllabi and examination questions by IREB e.V., training of the candidates by qualified training providers, and audits conducted by certification bodies. The task of IREB e.V. is to develop the syllabi and the examinations for CPRE courses, to define rules for auditing, and to grant licenses to certification bodies.
IREB e.V. has already been very successful in its efforts to create a certification model that is internationally accepted. Since the introduction of the certificate in 2007, the number of candidates has increased continuously. By the end of 2010, nearly 5,000 professionals have passed the CPRE exam - mainly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but also in Spain, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Egypt, the United States, Colombia, Brazil, South Korea, Malaysia and India. Syllabi and examination questions are available in German and English. In French and Spanish only the syllabi are available at present, with the examination questions being translated into these languages as well.
On March 30th, 2011 IREB e.V. has founded IREB GmbH, the operating company
for IREB.
IREB GmbH will support IREB e.V. in
More information's will be posted soon on the IREB website.
Mit Gültigkeit ab 1.3.2011 wurde heute der Lehrplan für das "AL-Modul" Requirements Modeling hier auf der IREB-Webseite veröffentlicht. Der Lehrplan kann auf der Downloadseite herunter geladen werden. Im Rahmen der Vorbereitung haben sich bereits zahlreiche Trainingsprovider entschlossen Trainings für das Modul anzubieten, eine Liste finden Sie auf der Seite der Trainingsprovider die Trainings für AL-Module anbieten.
Die Prüfungsordnung für das AL-Modul Requirements Modeling befindet sich ebenfalls auf der Downloadseite. Die Prüfung besteht aus Multiple Choice-Fragen sowie einer anspruchsvollen Hausarbeit.
Heute wurde die Prüfungsordnung für die Prüfungen zu den CPRE Advanced Level offiziell freigegeben. Die Prüfungsordnung beschreibt detailliert den Ablauf der Prüfungen. Während die Regelung der MC-Prüfung analog zur Prüfung im Foundation Level verläuft, sind die Regelungen hinsichtlich der Hausarbeit in Abstimmung mit den Zertifizierungsstellen komplett neu definiert worden.
Wir freuen uns Ihnen zudem die Übersetzung des CPRE Foundation Level Lehrplan 2.1 ins Französische bekannt geben zu können. Die französische Arbeitsgruppe des IREB (Joseph Aracic, Stéphane Badreau, Gauthier Fanmuy, Dominique Houdier, Daniel Lucas-Hirtz und Camille Salinesi) hat in den letzten Monaten intensiv an der Übersetzung gearbeitet und dabei auch wertvolle Hinweise zur Konsolidierung des CPRE Foundation Level Lehrplans in allen drei verfügbaren Sprachen - Deutsch, Englisch und Französisch - gegeben. Auf der IREB-Webseite stehen alle drei Sprachversionen zum Download zur Verfügung
The content of the syllabus is, apart from minor changes, the same as in the document published on September 1st, 2010. Nevertheless the document looks totally different, due to the reason that the translation has been reworked completely. The document is now very well aligned to the German version and to the English version of the CPRE book (coming soon!).
You may download the document from Syllabus CPRE-FL, Version 2.1
Mit Gültigkeit vom 1.3.2010 wurde heute der Lehrplan für das AL-Modul Elicitation and Consolidation auf der IREB-Webseite veröffentlicht. Der Lehrplan kann auf der Downloadseite herunter geladen werden. Im Rahmen der Vorbereitung haben sich bereits zahlreiche Trainingsprovider entschlossen Trainings für das Modul anzubieten, eine Liste finden Sie auf der Seite der Trainingsprovider die Trainings für AL-Module anbieten.
Die Prüfungsordnung für das AL-Modul Elicitation and Consolidation befindet sich aktuell in der abschließenden Bearbeitung und wird in wenigen Tagen zum Download öffentlich zur Verfügung stehen. Die Prüfung wird aus Multiple Choice-Fragen sowie einer anspruchsvollen Hausarbeit bestehen.
Als weiteres Al-Modul ist der Lehrplan Requirements Modeling an die anerkannten Trainingsprovider versandt worden. In einem Monat werden der Lehrplan und die zugehörige Prüfungsordnung auch offiziell auf der IREB-Webseite zum Download öffentlich zur Verfügung stehen.
First IREB Chair Chris Rupp will held a one day tutorial at the CinTeQ 2011 conference in Brazil on 30. March 2011. The tutorial will report about the IREB and the CPRE as a new worldwide RE standard. The main objective of the lecture is to cultivate the international understanding for the necessity of a unification of Requirements Engineering knowledge.
Description:
Cultures Speaking the Same Requirements: All Around the Certification for the „Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering”
Companies throughout the world are realizing more and more that requirements engineering (RE) is an important approach for leading projects to success. But there are a lot of different ways to carry out requirements engineering und thus particularly in international or locally distributed projects there is often the problem whether the programmer in India really does understand what the analyst form Berlin has specified. The main objective of the International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) e.V. (founded in 2007) is to achieve a standardization in the field of requirements engineering and therewith providing a clear communication basis. Leading requirements engineering experts coming from different backgrounds like industry, consulting, education and science have joined forces. Their aim is to increase and unite the requirements engineering education so that requirements engineers can speak the “same language” worldwide.
To accomplish that, they have developed a syllabus and the certificate „Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering“ (CPRE). Over 4,700 people worldwide were already successfully certified.
This lecture will tell you all around the IREB, the certification, the trainings, the examination procedure and the exam questions. Also the key differences to the "Business Analyst", "IIBA" and "BABOK" will be made clear.
Further the lecture will tell you about:
Afterwards the lecture questions will be answered and a discussion can take place.
Date: 30. March 2011 at the CinTeQ 2011
Place: Hotel Caesar Business Faria Lima, São Paulo, Brasilien
Duration: 1 Day
The tutorial will be held in English.
Ab dem 20. Januar werden die fertigen Lehrpläne und die Prüfungsordnung für die beiden neuen Advanced Level an die anerkannten Trainingsprovider versandt. Ca. einen Monat nach Versand werden dann die Lehrpläne und die Prüfungsordnung auch offiziell auf der IREB-Webseite zum Download öffentlich zur Verfügung stehen.
Riskieren Sie einen Blick darauf - es lohnt sich.
In der ersten Version werden die Lehrpläne nur in deutscher Sprache verfügbar sein. Nach einer ersten Phase der Konsolidierung und des Feedbacks vom Markt erfolgt die Übersetzung ins Englische.
The current IREB Executive Board has been reelected with absolute majority on the recent general meeting on 25 November 2010. Chris Rupp (SOPHIST GmbH) will carry on being the 1st Chair, Rainer Grau (Zühlke Engineering AG) the 2nd Chair und Karol Frühauf (INFOGEM AG) the treasurer. We wish the three all the best for their new period of office.
IEEE Article from IREB Board Member Prof. Dr. Barbara Paech
"What Is a Requirements Engineer?" - The lack of a clear definition about what constitutes a requirements engineer is problematic. Companies trying to establish clear RE responsibilities don't have clear standards on how to train their people, define the role, or choose the right people for the job. The Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering initiative has established a syllabus and a certification framework to improve this situation in industry.
After comprehensive preliminary work the CPRE Advanced Level modules Requirements Modeling and Requirements Elicitation and Consolidation will be launched in Q1 2011. With the release of the first two CPRE Advanced Level modules IREB takes another benchmark in standardizing the education within requirements engineering. Syllabus and exam procedures will be published on the IREB website soon. Additional CPRE Advanced Level modules will follow.
Recognized IREB Training Providers offering English CPRE trainings will also adapt their training documents and their training descriptions up to the 1 September 2010.
Please note that all exams and exam questions up to the 31 August 2010 are still based on the old version of the syllabus (2.0).
The current CPRE Foundation Level Syllabus 2.0 and the current Examination Guide will be still valid until the 31 August 2010.
For information about the new German CPRE-FL Syllabus and the German Examination Guide please take a look at the German News. It is the same version switch with the same release date. The English and the German Versions are identical.
Lassen Sie sich aktuelle Keynote Sprecher wie Dr. Said Zahedani von Mircrosoft Deutschland (Senior Director Developer Platform and Strategy Group) zum Thema "Testing Extends to the Cloud – Same Same, but Different… " nicht entgehen. Das IREB unterstützt die CONQUEST in diesem Jahr als Silver-Partner und gestaltet das Programm am Mittwochnachmittag mit dem Vortrag "Die RE-Völkerverständigung: Wissenswertes rund um die Zertifizierung zum Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering" mit. Das aktuelle Programm mit allen Keynote-, Tutorial- und Session-Abstracts finden Sie auf http://www.conquest-conference.org/program/."
CONQUEST Ticket-Registrierung: http://www.conquest-conference.org/tickets-registration/
IREB-Vortrag: Die RE-Völkerverständigung: Wissenswertes rund um die Zertifizierung zum „Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering"
von Chris Rupp (1. IREB Vorsitzende und CEO der [SOPHIST GmbH]) und Rainer Grau (2. IREB Vorsitzender und Education Manager bei [Zühlke Engineering AG]).
Datum: Mittwoch, 22 September 2010
Ort: International Congress Center des Maritim Hotel, Dresden
Zeit: 15:20 Uhr
In den Unternehmen setzt sich immer mehr die Erkenntnis durch, dass Requirements Engineering (RE) ein guter und wichtiger Ansatz ist, um Projekte zum Erfolg zu führen. Doch es gibt viele Arten Requirements Engineering zu betreiben und so besteht gerade räumlich verteilten Projekten häufig das Problem, ob denn der Entwickler auch wirklich versteht, was der Analytiker spezifiziert hat. Eine Standardisierung im Requirements Engineering und damit eine international verständliche Kommunikationationsbasis zu erreichen, ist die Zielsetzung des International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) e.V., der im Jahr 2007 gegründet wurde. Unter dem Vorsitz von Chris Rupp und Rainer Grau haben sich dort führende RE-Experten aus Wirtschaft, Beratung, Forschung und Wissenschaft zusammengeschlossen u.a. Suzanne Robertson, Dr. Peter Hruschka, Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl u.a. Ihr Ziel ist es die Ausbildung im Bereich Requirements Engineering zu verbessern und zu vereinheitlichen, so dass Requirements Engineers weltweit die "gleiche Sprache" sprechen. Hierzu haben sie einen Lehrplan und das Zertifikat „Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering“ (CPRE) entwickelt, nach welchem bereits weltweit über 2.500 Personen erfolgreich zertifiziert wurden.
Es werden Punkte rund um den IREB e.V., die Zertifizierung und die Schulungsmöglichkeiten, die Prüfungsverfahren und Prüfungsfragen angesprochen. Der Vortrag hebt auch die entscheidenden Unterschiede zum "Business Analysten", "IIBA" und "BABOK" hervor.
Weitere Vortragsinhalte sind u.a.:
Agile Software Engineering Best Practise: Depicting and/or denoting requirements
International Understanding in RE: What you need to know about the "Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering" certification
The 2.0 version of the CPRE FL syllabus is published in Englishand forms the basis for the examinations for acquiring the certificate in English-speaking countries.
The 2.0 version of the CPRE FL syllabus is published in German and forms the basis for the examinations for acquiring the certificate in German-speaking countries.
International Understanding; The success story of the “Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering” by Rainer Grau, Chris Rupp and Dirk Schüpferling
This article provides information on IREB and its coming into existence, on the content of the curriculum, on how the certification is organized - supported by dates, facts and figures on the current status of the certification.
It contains all information necessary to achieve the goals of the CPRE FL syllabus version 2.0.
iSQI increases their activities concerning the IREB certification in those countries.
With the QUAMP IT certificate companies are offered a clear way for professionalizing their staff in the disciplines of project management, requirements engineering, architecture, test and configuration management.
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Karol Frühauf, Collin Hood, Frank Houdek, Peter Hruschka, Babara Paech, Klaus Pohl, Christine Rupp (chair)