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New at IREB: The Lunch Lab
Starting in October, there’s a great reason to spend your lunch break differently: With the IREB Lunch Lab, we’re launching a new online format together with our partners - compact, practical, and to the point.
Every Thursday from 12:00–12:45 p.m., professionals from the fields of Requirements Engineering, Business Analysis, and Digital Design will speak openly about what truly matters to them in their day-to-day work.
Each session will be led by a different partner company with its own area of focus, followed by an open discussion in a small group - our Community Ambassadors from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland will also be joining us.
The sessions will be held in German.
Get to know compeople, located in the heart of Frankfurt!
Join our LC MeetUp to connect with fellow professionals, discuss current matters on RE and network over drinks and food.
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The IREB Community Türkiye is launching! Its first event brings together Requirements Engineering professionals to explore how AI-native ways of working are transforming product development - and the role of Requirements Engineers.
Inspired by the article The Product Manager’s New Operating System, the session explores what AI-native product development means for Requirements Engineering. How are the responsibilities of Requirements Engineers evolving? And how is AI reshaping the role?
The event starts with a short introduction to IREB and the new local community, followed by networking. The main session and discussion will be held in Turkish, while the introduction will be in English.
Free to attend. Registation required.
Online via Microsoft Teams | 3 September 2026, 18:00 TRT (UTC+3) / 17:00 CEST
A requirement you never questioned is a risk you never saw. Many project failures don't start with bad code – they start with requirements that were accepted too quickly, understood too vaguely, or never checked against what stakeholders actually meant.
In this Requirement Clinic of the IREB Community India series, we get practical about Requirements Analysis: how do you uncover the real need behind a stated requirement, detect conflicts and gaps early, and turn raw input into a solid, shared understanding?
What to expect:
Who should join: Requirements Engineers, Business Analysts, Product Owners – and anyone who elicits, reviews, or refines requirements.
Free to attend. Registation required.
Mo, 7. September 2026, 12:30 – 13:30 (UTC+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Neu-Delhi n.
You have questions about Requirements Engineering?
Or would you like to engage in an open discussion with other RE enthusiasts?
Then join us for our next IREB Community Austria | Germany | Switzerland consultation session!
Featuring:
We’ll discuss everything related to RE. Further information about the content and registration can be found at RE Consultantion Hours Dach
Join us, bring your questions, and take advantage of this opportunity for an open exchange with our community and our experts.
The RE consultation hours will be held in German.
IREB is the competence and community partner for Modern RE 2026, organized by summit, and is thus sending a clear signal regarding the further development of the RE community.
Our goal: to bring together people who want to advance Requirements Engineering. After all, the challenges are growing - driven by topics such as AI, increasing complexity, and new forms of collaboration. This makes the exchange of experiences, ideas, and solutions all the more important.
Modern RE creates exactly this space: for inspiration, discussion, and practical insights. Participants not only experience current trends but also take away concrete approaches that can be directly implemented in their own projects.
For IREB, this partnership is another step toward highlighting the importance of professional Requirements Engineering, promoting the sharing of knowledge and experience, and thereby actively strengthening the community.
The IREB Lunch Lab is a series of compact sessions addressing how artificial intelligence is changing the way we work when designing digital solutions. The focus is on practical exchange: a speaker shares first-hand experience with AI in requirements engineering, business analysis, and projects. An open discussion in a small group follows.
In this edition, Sven Gerhardus (BearingPoint) will talk about how an AI tool becomes real productivity. Using an internal GenAI solution enriched with proprietary know-how, he shows how phases of requirements engineering in standard software projects (SAP, Salesforce) can be concretely supported. Together, participants will examine what already works reliably today and where the limits lie.
You can register for this free event at Lunch Lab.
The Lunch Labs are in German.
This joint event by IREB and iSAQB brings together professionals from requirements engineering, design, software architecture and engineering for one intensive day in Graz. From morning to evening, participants will experience a compact bootcamp format with keynotes, expert sessions, a panel discussion, and tutorial tracks.
Why participate?
This is no ordinary conference: just one well-structured format combines strategic input, expert knowledge, discussion, and hands-on learning.
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The IREB Community Austria invites you to its next meetup in Graz. This time, we’re welcoming a special guest from Cologne: Leonie Hahn (Deloitte), who is in Graz for AIDE#26 and is taking the opportunity to meet with our community.
Artificial Intelligence is often seen as a game changer for Requirements Engineering, promising faster delivery, better quality, and less manual effort. But how much of this holds true in real project environments?
In her talk, Leonie Hahn will provide practical insights into the use of artificial intelligence in Requirements Engineering. Based on her experience, she’ll demonstrate the tasks for where AI genuinely helps and where human judgment remains irreplaceable.
At the same time, she highlights important limitations. Requirements Engineering is not only about documentation: understanding context, communicating with stakeholders, and making informed decisions remain central tasks that require human expertise. She also explains why the successful use of AI requires domain knowledge, strong prompting skills, and a critical evaluation of the results.
To reduce the number of no-shows, registration will be open starting September 15.
The event will be held in German.
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An overview on how PL & RE work together at Raiffeisen, combined with a peek into their requirements design.
Afterwards, enjoy a drink and network with fellow members of the IREB Community Switzerland.
IREB is determinedly driving practice-relevant continuing education in Requirements Engineering and Digital Design forward. With the growing reach and success of the certification programs, your CPRE or DDP certificate is becoming increasingly sought after and valuable in the job market.
What would IREB be without a worldwide network that appreciates the added value of the CPRE and DDP certification programs and supports the training courses?
Around the world, our recognized training providers, certifiers, and partner program participants help you to expand your expertise and take a decisive step towards greater professional success.
The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) defines business analysis as “the practice of enabling change in the context of an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders” [1]. This process relies heavily on effective communication and understanding of stakeholder needs, with particular emphasis on active listening. In this article, we will explore why these skills are essential for business analysts and how they can overcome some typical barriers to active listening. We will also highlight the benefits of these practices in fostering better relationships and creating a positive work environment.
In this paper, we will show how the SysML modeling language can be useful to complement the requirements process, i.e. to better define and trace requirements. The Systems Modeling Language (SysML: www.omgsysml.org) is a general-purpose graphical modeling language, defined by the Object Management Group (OMG), based on the well-known Unified Modeling Language (UML: www.uml.org). It is used for specifying, analyzing, designing and verifying complex systems, and is designed to provide simple but powerful constructs for modeling a wide range of systems engineering problems. It is particularly effective in specifying requirements: the structure, behavior, allocations and constraints on system properties that support engineering analysis.
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