Let the numbers speak!

Since 2007, more than 22,300 professionals in 59 countries have passed the CPRE Foundation Level examination.

Based on these figures, the CPRE certificate can rightly be regarded as the leading certificate in Requirements Engineering!

In September we have exceeded 22,000 certifications in the Foundation Level!

In total 29,458 exams 

and 22,391 certified CPRE-FL 

in 59 countries.

The passage rate is at 75.9%.

The rather weak start of the year was due to low request for training in Europe for all kinds of certifications

Q4 started very well for IREB

Below is the overall evolution of the CPRE FL exams per year since 2007. 2015 January - September

the latest figures of the IREB CPRE examinations.

We believe in transparency .. Let the numbers speak!

https://www.ireb.org/en/service/statistics/

IREB CPRE FL questions

I had an IREB prep course and created some questions from the IREB CPRE course.

IREB_CPRE_PREP_handout_questions
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e4hra74zn26yulf/IREB_CPRE_PREP_handout_questions.pdf?dl=0

Requirements work feels sometimes as an obstacle course

...and sometimes the certification itself feels almost impossible!

we will offer certification prep-sessions
for those who did not get on the right side of 60% the first time ...

the plan is to reserve the Monday afternoon (13-17:30)
before every planned IREB course
Then you can do the exam the Monday the week after!

/s

...nästan 27 000 examinerade!

"För att kunna prioritera och bygga rätt funktioner, med rätt nivå av kvalitet och samtidigt följa gällande standard, lagar och verksamhetsregler, så gäller det att förstå och visualisera intressenter och målgrupper, identifiera de (viktiga) flöden som hänger ihop med funktionerna och deras specifika kvalitetsattribut. För att göra det enkelt att utveckla och förvalta en produkt, krävs en helhetssyn och ett fokus på de kunskapsenheter som verkligen krävs för att det automatiska systemet ska leverera mätbar nytta för de prioriterade målgrupperna.
IREB CPRE certifieringen inom Kravingenjörsskap ger de verktyg som krävs för att skapa en strömlinjeformad och väl fungerande, nyttoproducerande organisation."

IREB går från klarhet till klarhet -  nästan 27 000 examinerade! 

Även fortsättningskurserna (CPRE AL - Advanced Level) börjar ta fart med över 1000 examen i 3 olika fortsättningskurser

• Elicitation and Consolidation

• Requirements Modeling

• Requirements Management

... tyvärr så är Business Analysis kursen inte i fokus detta året heller :-( 

RE Magazine #2 för 2015 kommer ut 30 April  

call for papers! - MODEL-DRIVEN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING (MoDRE) WORKSHOP AT RE 2015

MODEL-DRIVEN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING (MoDRE) WORKSHOP AT RE 2015
Co-located with the 23nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering
Conference in Ottawa, Canada, August 24, 2015

   http://www.modre2015.ece.mcgill.ca/

The Fifth International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MoDRE)
workshop continues to provide a forum to discuss the challenges of
Model-Driven Development (MDD) for Requirements Engineering (RE). Building
on the success of MDD for design and implementation, RE may benefit from
MDD techniques when properly balancing flexibility for capturing varied
user needs with formal rigidity required for model transformations as well
as high-level abstraction with information richness. MoDRE seeks to explore
those areas of requirements engineering that have not yet been formalized
sufficiently to be incorporated into a model-driven development
environment. Reuse of requirements models and management of requirements at
runtime become distinct possibilities with MDD and model transformations.
This workshop intends to identify new challenges, discuss on-going work and
potential solutions, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of MDD approaches
for RE, foster stimulating discussions on the topic, and provide
opportunities to apply MDD approaches for RE.

Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will be
submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Digital Library.

IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines 23:59:59, Baker Island time)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015: Deadline for abstract submission
Tuesday, June 9, 2015: Deadline for paper submission
Tuesday, June 30, 2015: Notification sent to authors
Wednesday, July 15, 2015: Deadline for submission of camera-ready paper
Monday, August 17, 2015: Deadline for submission of workshop presentation
Monday, August 24, 2015: Workshop

For more information, see the complete CFP at
   http://www.modre2015.ece.mcgill.ca/cfp.htm
or contact the organizers at modre2015-info at cs.mcgill.ca.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ana Moreira, Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Gunter Mussbacher, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Canada
João Araújo, Assistant Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Pablo Sánchez, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Omar Alam, McGill University, Canada
Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Joanne M. Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK
Jean-Michel Bruel, Université de Toulouse, France
Jordi Cabot, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, UK
Elder Cirilo, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil
José María Conejero, Universidade de Extremadura, Spain
Dolors Costal, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Spain
Kleinner Farias, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil
Xavier Franch, University of Barcelona, Spain
Martin Glinz, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Arda Goknil, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Emílio Insfran, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Xiaoping Jia, DePaul University, USA
Julio Leite, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Anna Medve, Pannon Egyetem, Hungary
John Mylopolous, Università di Trento, Italy
Elena Navarro, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA
Liliana Pasquale, Lero, Ireland
Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Dorina C. Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
Alfonso Pierantonio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
William Robinson, Georgia State University, USA
Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK
Eugene Syriani, University of Montreal, Canada
Massimo Tisi, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Manuel Wimmer, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Tao Yue, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Steffen Zschaler, King's College London, UK

about awesomeness :-)

I have said it before...part of beeing successful in RE and BA is the be PROUD and CONFIDENT of the methods applied and the work beeing done...

It is NOT the same thing as always doing the right thing.

But we are confident and proud of our knowledge base AND we have an open mind with thousands of virtual eyes and ears to enhance the feedback loop and "make things work!"

... so the two posters below are true, I am sure you all agree :-)

/s

om SPISEC metoden!

Jag skrev en liten blogg och gjorde ett TÄNK!-papper på SPISEC som jag använt mig av på ett framgångsrikt sätt under några stora utredningar under det senaste året.

Givetvis är det en vidareutveckling och en tvist på SPIN-modellen! Akronymen SPIN står som bekant för Situation - Problem - Inverkan (Impact) - Nytta (Net-benefit)

Historik:
Företaget Huthwaite med Neil Rackham i spetsen, utförde en omfattande genomgång av stora komplicerade säljflöden och analyserade över 35 000 inspelade säljsamtal. Resultatet sammanfattades i en enkel hypereffektiv modell: SPIN-modellen. Och givetvis skrev han flera böcker om modellen, bland annat ”Spin Selling” (1988).

>> TÄNK!

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