
Ulf Ackermann
Ulf Ackermann works as a Requirements Engineer in the B2B Industry Commerce division of T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH. He states: “Structuring a project from the few known variables to produce an appealing...
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Ulf Ackermann works as a Requirements Engineer in the B2B Industry Commerce division of T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH. He states: “Structuring a project from the few known variables to produce an appealing...

Dr. Sebastian Adam received his Master of Science degree (“German Diplom”) in Computer Science from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2005 and joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental...

Founder of the consulting company “Crescendo Technologies”, Joseph Aracic is a System Engineering Consultant, focusing on requirements management techniques and processes, product line engineering and model driven...

Dr Chetan Arora is the Director of Education for the Software Systems and Cybersecurity Department and a senior lecturer in Software Engineering at Monash University, Australia. Dr Arora has more than 18 years of...

Priyank Arora is a Senior Business Analyst working in the digital IT space for 12+ years. He is a CBAP certified professional with a Core Credential in Business Analytics from Harvard Business School. He works on large...

Rodolphe Arthaud is an expert consultant and trainer. He contributed to the definition of UML 1.4 and 2.0, and was heavily involved in the deployment of Requirements Engineering for an aircraft program. He also applied...

Saïd Assar, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Institut Mines-Telecom, Ecole de Management.

Ariè Avnur is a veteran software developer, manager and executive, with over 40 years of experience developing software of various types, from real-time embedded and control systems through enterprise, web applications,...

Cyrille Babin is the initiator and lead author of the Requirements Maturity Model Integration (RMMi). A practitioner and advisor in requirements engineering and software quality, his work focuses on requirements...

Henrik is a student at the KKS Hannover, uses Java, C and C++ and is currently managing projects such as the development of a computer game using the Unreal Engine 4, building and programming an Arduino-Robot.

Lars teaches requirements engineering for more than 10 years at the University of Applied Sciences and arts, Hannover, Germany. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience in the field of international...

Joy Beatty is an internationally recognized Requirements Expert and co-author of award-winning requirements best practices publications.

Daniel Berry has developed software since 1965, still in high school. He has taught computer science since 1972, at UCLA, the Technion, and the University of Waterloo. He has been doing, teaching, and researching...

Brett Bicknell is an engineer at Critical Software Technologies. His software engineering experience includes formal methods, embedded systems and data solutions.

Head of Requirements Engineering at ZIEHL-ABEGG, overseeing requirements for ventilation and drives technology since June 2024. Since 2015, I’ve worked as consultant and trainer for RE and SE in various industries from...

Veronika Brandstetter is a mathematician in the Technology Field Automation & Control at Siemens Corporate Technology focusing on simulation based engineering.

Cary Bryczek leads the Jama team as the Principal Solutions Architect for our highly regulated customers in the Aerospace and Defense and Medical Device industries.

Vice president of SYSQA B.V., experienced requirements professional and trainer, Co-author of two Dutch requirements books and IREB Supporting Member.

Will Chaparro is a software development manager in IBM’s Watson Group.

Praveen Chinnappa is a certified Product Owner, QA professional, and IT Architect with 15+ years of experience leading critical technology projects. His IIBA article on objective-driven user stories reflects his...

Nelly Condori-Fernandez is an assistant professor at the Universidade da Coruna (Spain) and research associate of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Her research focuses on topics related to quality...

Maya Daneva, PhD, is Senior Member of Scientific Staff in the Services and Cybersecurity group at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her research interests are requirements engineering for large systems,...

Simon Darting studied applied computer science with focus on communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Worms, Germany. Subsequent to his studies he started working as a researcher at Fraunhofer IESE in...

Dr.-Ing. Birgit Demuth has over 20 years experience as researcher and educator in software engineering. Amongst other lectures, she teaches students in requirements engineering.

Hannah Deters is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Software Engineering Group at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, from where she also received her master’s degree in Computer Science. Her research...

Quality Consultant of SYSQA B.V., CPRE and Certified Ethical Hacker, experienced QA manager, security professional and trainer with focus on Security-by-Design and secure software development.

Dr. Joerg Doerr is head of the Information Systems division at the Fraunhofer Institute Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Before, he was head of the Requirements and Usability...

Jakob Droste is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Software Engineering Group at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, from where he also received his master’s degree in Computer Science. His current...

Dr. Christof Ebert is managing director at Vector Consulting Services. He supports clients around the world to improve product strategy and product development and to manage organizational changes.

Frank Engel looks back on over 10 years’ experience in project management and Requirements Engineering. Prior to his time as a Partner of the Anforderungsfabrik, he was responsible for an international consulting...

Till-J. Faßold is Expert Strategic Planning at 1&1, Germany. In this role – besides other responsibilities – he coaches professionals from various departments and is responsible for the requirements engineering...

Nuno Ferreira is currently the head of research at i2S Insurance Knowledge, invited professor at ISEP of Porto's Polytechnique Institute and researcher at ALGORITMI research center of Minho’s University in Portugal. He...

Xavier Franch is Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Spain. He is Council Member and Full Member of the IREB association. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in...

Áldrin Jaramillo Franco is a full-time Professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering at University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia).

Dirk Fritsch is a Principal Consultant in the requirements division at QA Systems GmbH. Currently he focuses on training and coaching for requirements management using classical and agile methods.

As project coordinator for Human Resources at SOPHIST, Ulrike constantly aims at optimizing the individual abilities, strengths and talents within the team of the SOPHISTs.

Andreas Froese is working as a research assistant at the working group of Software Systems Engineering (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl) at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Karol Frühauf is co-founder of INFOGEM AG in Switzerland (ww.infogem.ch) and founding member of IREB. His main interests are test and quality management and requirements engineering.

Emmerich Fuchs has more than 30 years of experience in application development and is a consultant in business process modelling, requirements engineering and quality assurance.

Marie Garnier is an associate professor in the English Department at the Université Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France).

Eva Gebetsroither works as a Senior Technical Translator in the localisation team of Software Daten Service GmbH. Apart from translations and terminology management she is responsible for language quality assurance....

Albena Georgieva is a senior requirements engineer with experience in the e-commerce and public domain.

David Gilbert has worked in various operational and strategic Digital Design roles since 2007. Previously, he completed his studies as Diploma Mediamanager at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. Until 2015, he...

Thijmen works as IT architect at Kommuninvest acting as technical lead for its digitalization initiative and growing CI/CD and Agile practice in the company. His work on the mini-QAW started in his role as researcher at...

Ellen Gottesdiener is an internationally recognized leader in the convergence of agile + requirements + product management + project management. Ellen is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, which helps...

For more than twenty years, Rainer Grau has accompanied companies on their way enterprise agility. He supports companies in their efforts to continuously develop and create sustainable value for customers and employees....

Grigory Grin is a Chief Software Architect at Axinom – software supplier for Media- and In-Flight Entertainment solutions based in Germany and Estonia. Grigory studied mathematics and graduated from the Ural State...

Dr. Christine Grimm works for SAP as Senior Researcher in large scale, publicly funded projects. Formerly, she has been employed as a consultant implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Europe.

Eduard C. (Eddy) Groen is strategic advisor to the executive board on AI and senior requirements engineer at Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern, Germany. His work focuses on the digital sustainability of complex systems....

Andreas is consultant and trainer at SOPHIST GmbH and is specialized in object-oriented and linguistic methods in requirements engineering. His assignments include methods of linguistic analysis as well as of conceptual...

Jason Hansen obtained a BS in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Tech. He left the work force in 2005 to focus on raising an adopted special needs daughter. In 2015, he decided to return to school and obtained his AAAS...

Gunnar Harde is Principal Consultant at adesso SE. In conjunction with his clients, he is responsible for their requirements engineering in critical software development projects. He has many years of experience as...

Olivier Hayard has been a consultant and in charge of IT and Knowledge Management at Itecor, a boutique consultancy firm, since 1993. Olivier’s main interests are business analysis and requirements management, as...

Freelance trainer and consultant in Software Engineering.

Candase Hokanson is a certified business analyst trainer and practitioner who creates precise requirements and executes highly effective scope bounding for F1000 clients at Seilevel.

Dr. Michael Jastram is an expert model-based systems engineering (MBSE), with a focus on requirements. He has over 20 years experience in software development and requirements engineering, which he regularly shares as...

Juyeon Kang has a PhD in Computational Linguistics from University Paris-Sorbonne. She is a R&D Engineer at Prometil, specialist of technical document authoring.

Karim Kanso holds a PhD in theoretical computer science, and currently works as a senior software engineer at Critical Software Technologies, UK.

Andreas Kara has 15 years experience as IT project manager in leading positions, both representing customer and contractor.

Michael Keeling is a software engineer at LendingHome and the author of Design It! From Programmer to Software Architect. In his career so far, he has worked on a variety of interesting software systems including IBM...

Guy Kindermans, with over 30 years at Belgian IT magazine Data News, has covered a broad spectrum of IT topics, from microchips to enterprise applications, including software development environments. Focused on...

Matthias Koch is a researcher at Fraunhofer IESE. In his work he mainly deals with practical as well as research questions related to requirements engineering.

Daniela Kreiner is an experienced Requirements Engineer and Product Manager specializing in digitalization projects in healthcare. She is actively engaged in the IREB community, focusing on CPRE-based RE standards and...

Inge Kress is a specialist in psychosomatic medicine. Besides practicing medicine, she engages in medical education regarding psychosomatic issues for specialists in the field as well as for laymen.

Dr. Carl Friedrich Kress works as senior project management consultant empowering organizations to apply requirements engineering methods and estimation metrics.

Alexandra Kreuzeder is the project manager of "ditact women's IT summer studies", that is part of the ICT&S Center of the University of Salzburg. She graduated at the University of Vienna in Sociology in 1997....

Fabrício Laguna is the first CBAP © in Latin America (CBAP - Certified Professional in Business Analysis by IIBA © - International Institute of Business Analysis), also certified PMP Project Manager by PMI.

Dr. Kim Lauenroth is chief requirements engineer and leads a competence centre for RE at adesso AG, a german IT-company.

Sandra Leek is currently working as a Senior Lead Business Analyst for Lloyds Banking Group. She has been with the organisation for nearly 18 years during which she has taken on a number of roles including Programming...

Hans van Loenhoud MSc is a consultant and teacher at Taraxacum in the Netherlands.

Ricardo J. Machado is a full professor of Information Systems Engineering and Technology in the Dept. of Information Systems at the University of Minho (UMinho), School of Engineering. Within the Information Systems...

Ahmed M. Maghawry is a multidisciplinary technology leader and university lecturer with a background spanning software engineering, requirements engineering, product ownership, and technical product management as well...

Andreas Maier studied Computational Linguistics, Language Science and Technology and Philosophy at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. From November 2008 to April 2018, he worked as scientific assistant at...

Neil Maiden is Emeritus Professor at City St George’s, University of London. His interest is artificial intelligence to augment human creativity. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, chaired the Steering...

Project manager since 2008, certified Scrum Product Owner, Agile Project Manager, with foundations of PRINCE2. Over six years of experience as a UX designer and researcher. Worked in digital agencies as a digital...

Daniel McLeod is a senior systems engineer at Selex ES, part of the GridKey collaboration. He holds a BSc degree in Physics from the University of Nottingham.

Stefan Meier works at SPF Consulting as Project Manager, Requirements Engineer, Agile Coach and Trainer helping customers getting up to speed in their agile requirements approach.

Daniel Méndez is an Associate Professor for Software Engineering at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden and Senior Scientist at fortiss, the research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for...

Ursula Meseberg is co-founder and principal of microTOOL GmbH. She is the author of numerous articles and a member of the IREB syllabus advisory board.

Michael Mey, Managing Consultant at Obvious Works, holds a diploma in Computer Science from Furtwangen University, Germany, where he first explored AI and neural networks. With extensive experience in international...

Luisa Mich is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy. Her research interests include requirements engineering, creativity and web strategies. She is an author of more than 150...

Ravishankar is a consultant with Financial Services division of Capgemini Financial Services with an overall experience of 13 years in the Banking and Financial Service sector. He has managed million dollar projects for...

Onur Görkem Özcan is a young professional with multidisciplinary background in management and engineering. He currently works as Project Manager at Credit Suisse, based in Zürich.

Cristina Palomares is a PhD student in the Software Engineering for Information Systems Research Group (GESSI) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Her PhD thesis deals about the construction, use and...

Ina Paschen is a Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager at Zühlke Schweiz. As a practitioner and consultant she helps ensure her clients deliver successful projects: a clear project set-up, a solid requirements...

Manon Penning has a broad background in the fields of IT and education. She is an educational specialist, requirements engineer, quality analyst and trainer currently employed by Improve Quality Services, a provider of...

Howard Podeswa is a thought leader in the intersection of agile and business analysis. For over twenty years, he has been helping large organizations optimize their analysis and planning practices for agile software...

Gildas PREMEL-CABIC works as a Business Analyst at Capgemini (France). Gildas holds the IREB CPRE foundation level certificate. His business domain is the use of simulation for Defence activities. His main domain of...

Dr. Carme Quer is associate professor in the Service and Information System Engineering department (ESSI) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). She is member of the Software Engineering for Information...

Frank Rabeler is a Business Analyst at T-Systems in Germany, where he specializes in requirements engineering for telecommunications software systems. Previously he worked as a database expert with focus on data...

Alexander Rachmann advises companies on the linking business and IT. His strong interdisciplinary knowledge of business administration and computer science enables him to work as an ideal Requirements Engineer, Business...

Thorsten von Ramsch is Director Engineering at QAULITEST Group. He is an IREB Certified Requirements Engineer, ISTQB Certified Tester Full Advanced Level, ASQF Project Manager, Professional Scrum Master and iNTCCM...

Gil Regev has been a researcher at EPFL since 1997 in the fields of enterprise information systems, requirements engineering, change management and knowledge management. Since 2008 he is also manager and consultant at...

Norman Riegel is a Consultant, Project Manager and Researcher for Requirements Engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Kaiserslautern, Germany. Je joined Fraunhofer IESE in...

As a principal and founder of The Atlantic Systems Guild, James Robertson is known for his work in implementing systems engineering principles that link business specialists with solution specialists. James is a...

Suzanne Robertson is having a stellar career in information technology and systems engineering. Suzanne is a pioneer in adapting ideas from other domains for automated solutions. She has collaborated in workshops using...

Dirk Röder has been working in software engineering since 1992. At DB Systel GmbH, he has been chief software architect since 2007, taking care of the employees involved in IT conception. Since 2010, he has played a...

Gareth is an experienced business analyst and product owner who has been working in the telecoms and other industries for longer than he’d like to be specific about. He has been an active member of IREB for some years...

Pascal Roques is a senior consultant and trainer who has been modeling for more than 25 years in many domains. He is currently focused on systems modeling with SysML.

Within 25 years of active involvement in the field of systems engineering Chris has accumulated a company, 6 books, 55 employees, innumerable articles and lectures and a lot of experience.

Born and raised in France where she completed her studies in IT Project Management, Margaux worked two years as consultant in Project Management, both in France and in Germany. Through the different projects she worked...

Patrick Saint-Dizier, PhD, is a senior researcher at CNRS Toulouse in Computational Linguistics (discourse and semantics) applied to argumentation and technical text authoring.

Victoria Sakhnini is an adjunct lecturer at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Her research includes empirically validating the effectiveness of a new technique to enhance...

Prof. Dr. Salinesi is full Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne. He coordinates a research team on various requirements-related issues at the Sorbonne’s Centre de Recherche en Informatique.

Nuno Santos is currently a Senior Business Analyst at Natixis Portugal. He holds a PhD in Technologies and Information Systems, and is also certified from Agile Alliance as CSPO, and from the IIBA as CCBA, AAC and POA....

Deepti works at the RnD Department of Siemens Corporate Technology, Bangalore. She also looks at applied RE research in an industry context.

Hartmut Schmitt is a project coordinator at HK Business Solutions GmbH in Friedrichsthal, Germany. Since 2006, he has managed and worked on research projects in the areas of human-computer interaction, usability &...

Jens Schirpenbach has been working as a consultant in the area of Product Lifecycle management for more than 12 years focusing on operations transformation in the area of Engineering and Services. He worked as a...

Sebastian Schlaus, B.Sc. is a strategy and production management expert in the consulting department at Gemini Business Solutions GmbH, Aachen (Germany).

Jesko Schneider worked as a consultant with a focus on Business Analysis, Requirements Management and Usability Engineering. He built up consulting services for Requirements Engineering and Usability Engineering in an...

Kristina is a consultant and trainer at SOPHIST GmbH. As a linguist working in requirements engineering she has managed to bridge the gap between humanities and IT.

Anja Schwarz is a requirements engineering consultant, trainer and author with the SOPHIST GmbH and leads the IREB Advanced Level E&C working group.

Nastassia is a dedicated Senior IT Business Analyst with both technical and non-technical expertise in the FinTech, EdTech and E-Commerce domains. She holds a Master’s degree in Informatics and is certified by Scrum.org...

Rana Siadati is currently a PhD student in Software Requirements Engineering and also a visiting lecturer by the School of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. Alongside these roles, Rana has many years...

Guilherme Siqueira Simões has 20 years of experience on software projects and is author of a book on Function Points and another one on Requirements Engineering.

Harry M. Sneed has a Master’s Degree in Information Sciences from the University of Maryland, 1969. He has been working in the IT field since 1967 when he started as a FORTRAN programmer for the US Navy Department.

Dr. Patrick Steiger, based in Switzerland, leads the requirements engineering activities of Infometis AG and is a part-time teacher at the MAS HCID (Human-Computer Interaction Design) which is provided as a cooperation...

Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Stypa is head of the consulting department at Gemini Business Solutions GmbH, Aachen (Germany).

Martin Tate is an IT consultant who has personally run or rescued over 50 projects to select off-the-shelf solutions. A ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’, he formerly worked for an IT provider and was trained to sell...

Having finished her diploma in quantum optics Maria-Therese Teichmann couldn’t resist meeting the complex challenges of Information Technology. For fifteen years she has been working at Software Daten Service GmbH as a...

Bastian Tenbergen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Oswego State University, USA, researching Model-Based Requirements Engineering and Context Analysis.

Corrine Thomas is an experienced leader and Business Analyst with over 25 years of working across a range of industry sectors including Local Government, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Financial services.

Albert Tort is the Research&Innovation Solutions Lead in Sogeti Spain. During the last years, he has been working as Quality Assurance and Software Control & Testing specialist in several projects for customers...

After graduating in Communication Science with a focus on public relations and corporate communications in Salzburg and Shanghai, Corinna Unterfurtner finished the MBA in General Management with a focus on coaching,...

Over 25 years of experience in software development, maintenance and management, believes requirements engineering and software measurement technologies are key tools to reach business objectives.

Erik van Veenendaal is a leading international consultant and trainer, and a widely recognized expert in the area of software testing and quality management.

Vito Veneziano is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire, and his interests range from software engineering, HCI, requirements analysis and system modelling, to how software systems...

Andreas Vogelsang is a post-doc researcher at the Technical University of Munich. His main research focus is on model-based requirements engineering.

Chong Wang is an assistant professor at Wuhan University. She has over 10 years of work experience in research and university teaching. Her research interests include requirements engineering, software engineering, and...

Student of Informatics Teaching at the University of Heidelberg.

Alain Wegmann is a full professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. He worked 14 years for Logitech (Switzerland, Taiwan, US) in positions ranging from software developer, IS...

Jan Christoph Wehrstedt is working as a mathematician and Project Manager in the Technology Field Automation & Control at Siemens Corporate Technology.

Tanja Weiß graduated as Master of Arts in Theatre Studies. She is in charge of Public Relations at microTOOL GmbH.

Paul Wernick is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire. Dr Wernick has taken leading roles in the ProSim series of software process simulation workshops, and the IEEE Workshop on...

Mats Wessberg holds a Masters degree in mathematics and computer science. He has been active in the IT community since the mid-nineties, initially as a software engineer but mainly as a consultant, often mentoring...

Thorsten Weyer is head of the research group ‘Requirements Engineering and Conceptual Design’ at the Ruhr-Institute for Software Technology (‘paluno’) at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Christoph Wolf works for more than 15 years as Requirements Engineer, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Quality Assurance Manager and Trainer for Requirements Engineering.

Dennis Woyke is an RE and digital design expert in the public and healthcare sector. He is actively engaged in the IREB community, focusing on CPRE-based RE standards and practical strategy execution.

Dr. Ralph R. Young (CSEP, ralphyoung.net) has invested his career in assisting individuals, projects, and organizations to improve and helping others to grow. He has a wide diversity of experience, including private...

Johan Zandhuis is Product manager at SYSQA BV, an organisation specialised in quality assurance in IT. The themes ‘creating value with IT’ and ‘getting grip on IT’ play a constant role when he’s doing the job. “Why are...

Sven has more than 20 years of experience in requirements engineering and agile product development. He loves to share his experience with others.

I work as an independent IT consultant, coach and trainer and in requirements engineering, business analysis and quality management fields helping customers to improve their operations and development processes to...
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