Talk:International Requirements Engineering Board

Relevance of the article
the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) article is relevant because of the following verifiable facts:

Merge of IREB and CPRE
IREB and CPRE are complete different and orthogonal constructs
 * The International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB e.V.) is an association officially registered in Germany
 * Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering is a certification model developed by IREB. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RainerGrau (talk • contribs) 20:49, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

international recognition
The IREB stand for a international certification schema in requirements engineering.


 * By December 2008 10 countries support this certification schema
 * By December 2008 2,000 software professionals have been certified in 5 countries
 * Board members of the IREB are international recognized experts as there are
 * Suzanne Robertson, UK (Author of more then one standard book about requirements engineering)
 * Prof. Dr. Martin Glinz, Switzerland (Head of the Requirements Engineering Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, since years Program Chair of the International Requirementes Engineering Conference
 * Prof. Klaus Pohl Head of the Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen
 * ... and some other recognized experts in requirements engineering (see references: Board members of the International Requirements Engineering Board)

The members of the IREB have written the three most sold books worldwide in requirements engineering as listed below


 * Suzanne Robertson: Mastering the Requirements Process (2nd Edition), Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (March 27, 2006), ISBN-13: 978-0321419491
 * Chris Rupp 2006: Requirements-Engineering und -Management. Publisher: Hanser Fachbuchverlag; (Oktober 2006), ISBN-13: 978-3446405097
 * Klaus Pohl 2008: Requirements Engineering, Publisher: dpunkt.Verlag GmbH, ISBN-13: 978-3898645508

World leading companies incorporated the IREB certification schema as part of their professional education as there are
 * Hewlett Packard (see references: Article about the qamp certificate)
 * The qmap Certificate holds the ISTQB and the IREB_Certified_Professional_for_Requirements_Engineering certificate
 * Credit Suisse

The fact that this initiative is founded in Europe should - hopefully - not be an reason for deletion. Each good idea had its seed located anywhere.

IREB is non commercial an neutral and open to the wide community
The IREB association, founded in Germany, is a non commercial organization heading for more professionalism. All members of the IREB are not paid for their work in IREB.

The opposite applies: The members of the IREB (all well established experts in their organizations) invested a lot of time and money to build up IREB.

IREB follows the same concept as ISTQB
If IREB is subject of deletion, then ISTQB is subject of deletion as well, as both certification schemas follow the same principles and goals.

The main difference is, that IREB's internal organization is different to ISTQB. IREB does not explicitly require local board in all countries (they are welcome for support, but not required) to keep the decision process lean and agil.

IREB is working in worldwide spread working groups organized over electronic media with supporting personal meeting. With this language specific issues are covered and fast progress is done.

For you to remember: ISTQB was born in Switzerland as well and had started its success in the same way as IREB now is starting.

None of the fast delete criteria is met except recreation
Your fast deletion criteria are:


 * 1) Patent nonsense: of course not
 * 2) Test pages: This is not a test
 * 3) Recreation of deleted material: Yes, but you did not recognize the relevance of that article
 * 4) Banned user Pages: No
 * 5) Author requests deletion: As far as I know: No
 * 6) Pages dependent on a non-existent or deleted page: not the case
 * 7) Office actions: You have to know that, but I do not believe so
 * 8) Pages that serve no purpose but to disparage or threaten their subject or some other entity: This is not the case, the page wants to inform the public about an interesting know certification schema like ISTQB
 * 9) Blatant advertising: No, the IREB is non-commercial
 * 10) Blatant copyright infringement: No, definitly not

So I really wonder what reason set this article under speedy deletion

With best regards

(RainerGrau (talk) 21:54, 23 December 2008 (UTC))