the latest figures of the IREB CPRE certifications!

7818 exams in the Foundation Level (a growth of over 10% compared to 2016!)

The Advanced Levels is still in the starting blocks.
People that ”can see into the future” and understand the need of knowledge beyond simple collaboration concepts and ”scrum-hugs” go for this exam to get an extreme edge!

Many candidates do the seminar to ”open their eyes” and expand their thinking skills", but do not always do the exam. And I really think that is OK… everything does not need to end up in a certificate. The main thing is to dive into the training course and have the opportunity to grow, ask questions and be together with fellow interested people and learn from the experience!However I am not very fond of the ”I read this little booklet and then go for the exam”- thinking, I believe experienced-based learning is the way to go, to give you the time off work and focus for 3-4 days !

The RE@Agile primer started to grow in fall with 200 exams in a couple of months.

The RE@Agile Advanced Level, which will be launched in Q1/Q2 2018.

in total - 729 CPRE training courses in 2017:

·  649 Foundation Level training courses (584 in 2016)

·  33 Advanced Level E&C training courses (22 in 2016)

·  24 Advanced Level Modeling courses (15 in 2016)

·  15 Advanced Level Management courses (17 in 2016)

·   8 RE@Agile primer courses (0 in 2016)

I recently held my #30 IREB FL course (yes, I celebrated with some really nice crafts beeer at AKKURAT!). 

In the end of  2018 I will push hard for the Advanced Modeling Course that will be available via my new employer CASTRA (a real BA-company!)

Knowledge Representation  has been my interest since I started Technical Physics @ Chalmers 1987 and created a individual version of  the course plan with focus on "semantic representation and modeling" also including computer lingusitics and KR.

In september I start doing research in "Pragmatic Knowledge Representation"
and  the Advanced Modeling Course is in my opinion a really good stepping stone towards a MUCH MORE INFORMED development paradigm.
Forget all negative stuff associated with "old-time modeling", let's talk about real knowledge that is NEEDED and how we represent that knowledge in the best possible way.
Only stupid people think that "in the head" is the best way to store and represent knowledge in a situation with more than 1 (!) involved person .... ;-)