CPRE - Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering
Stefan Sturm, IREB, at the
9th International Software Quality Engineering Forum September 2017, Guangzhou, China
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About me
Who am I?
Stefan Sturm, Managing Director of IREB GmbH
What is the IREB GmbH?
Operating company of the IREB e.V.
What is the IREB e.V.?
International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) e. V.
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Motivation
The importance of RE
Insufficient Requirements Engineering is one of the main reasons (87%) for project failure!
* Standish Group: Success rate of Software and IT Projects
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Motivation
The importance of RE
Numerous studies show that about 60% of the errors of system development projects originate in the Requirements Engineering stage.
Effort to fix a requirement defect: up to 100 times higher x up to 20 times higher RE stage programing stage testing stage
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* B. Boehm. Software Engineering Economics. Prentice Hall. 1981
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Motivation
Requirements Engineering - A profession with a long tradition
26th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference – Alberta 2018
24th REFSQ conference – Utrecht, 2018
17th REConf – Munich 2016 – over 400 participants
4th APRES – Melaka 2017
Asia-Pacific Requirements Engineering Symposium http://asiapacificre.org
But….
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Stefan Sturm
