The ISTQB Processes working party aims at creating and delivering a mutual processes description as a baseline for all ISTQB national boards to use (such as: Review, Examination, Certification, Accreditation Process and any other process within ISTQB if not specifically excluded).

The ISTQB Processes working party will aim to get involvement from mature national boards, to collaborate and get a consensus on processes from all national boards involved.

The following person (WP Chair) is responsible for preparing and delivering the output and the relevant data produced by the WP:

Yaron Tsubery, yaron.tsubery"at"comverse.com, phone +972 3 766 9255,
Comverse, Israel

The following persons are the review working party members. They will be informed by the WP chair about material ready for review: ”at”=@

1. Wojciech Jaszcz (Poland) w.jaszcz“at“sjsi.org (Deputy Chair)
2. Vipul Kocher (India)  vipul”at"whatistesting.com (Review Chair)
3. Taz Daughtrey (USA) daughtht”at”jmu.edu
4. Monika Støcklein-Olsen (Norway) mstockleinolsen“at“gmail.com
5. Rik Marselis (Dutch/Belgian) treasurer”at”bntqb.nl
6. Clive Bates (UK) clive”at”grove.co.uk
7. Anton Schlatter (Germany) Anton.Schlatter”at”logicacmg.com
8. Katja Stalder (Swiss) Katja.stalder“at“saq.ch
9. Anders Pettersson (Sweden) anders.pettersson “at” sstb.se
10. Kenji Onishi (Japan) Kenji“at” mamezou.com
11. Steven Toms (Australia & New-Zealand) steve.toms“at”cba.co.au
12. Werner Henschelchen (Germany) werner.henschelchen“at“gasq.org
13. Beata Karpinska (Sweden) beata.karpinska “at“ sstb.se
14. Doris Rubruk (Germany) doris.rubruck "at" imbus.de
15. Mike Snyman (Sauth-Africa) MikeS ”at” Nedbank.co.za
16. Mohammad Nuruzzaman (Bangladesh) nzamaan@gmail.com
17. Jerry Evertt (USA) geverett “at” gvtc.com
18. Joe Gance (USA) joe.gance “at” firstdata.com
19. Mohsen Hedayati (Iran) hedayati “at” axisplus.de
20. Girts Baltaisbrencis (Latvia) Girts.Baltaisbrencis ”at” exigenservices.com
21. Hui Wang (China) hui “at” imbus.cn
22. Dietmar Gehring (Luxemburg) dietmar.gehring “at” ubs.com
23. Miguel Angel Cervera Roig (Spain) macervera “at” gfi.es
24. Robert Dankanin (Czech) robert.dankanin “at“ castb.org
25. Tal Pe’er (Israel) talpeer “at” inter.net.il
26. Qin Liu (China) qin.liu “at” tongji.edu.cn
27. Helmut Pichler (Austria) pichler “at“ austriantestingboard.at
28. David Fuller (ANZTB) davidfuller “at” anztb.org

Released processes & official forms status:

1. Review
2. ISTQB meeting structure
3. Certification (package) V1.20
4. Examination (package) V1.20
5. Accreditation (package) V1.20
6. Compliance Report Card
7. National boards report to ISTQB assembly

Trial version processes:

1. Processes Glossary
2. Coach plan for new member
3. Compendium document

Notes:

1. No formal comments received from national board to the released processes.
2. Warning! There are written guidelines which are not sync with the processes WP.

Next major milestones approach:

1. Planned workshop in Poland Oct’ 2009 (17-18 of Oct’).
2. Complete writing the following processes:
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1. Expansion – Prepare a suggestion to change a process paper (Jerry) TBD
2. ISTQB member board structure (Yaron)
3. Cross Recognition between national boards – Prepare a suggestion to change a process paper (Klaus)
4. Accreditation of Trainers – enhancement to the Accreditation process (SSTB)
5. ISTQB GA meeting (Robert D.)
6. Hosting an ISTQB GA meeting
7. Working groups workshop
3. Gathering all GA meeting decisions related to processes and create change requests
4. Collection of replies for ‘Compliance Report Card’ from national boards – will be reported at the meeting in Krakow – not all boards sent their reports.
5. Aggregation of comments to released processes (on-going).

General approach from working party:
Work is distributed in the way that all national board representatives will take over the review of the above processes - based on the ‘Review process’ template, calls for review meetings following the review process, updates the document and make sure it is ready for vote before publishing it. Issues that are to be raised to the “general board” are done by the person/host board if problem cannot be resolved within working party or are beyond its area of work. All participants in the working party are expected to act as the ambassador for their national board and to actively participate in the work (reviews, drafts creation/managing a process) but this work can also be distributed to others within their own board for practical reasons.

Former and current major milestones status:

1. The following processes were released in Vienna meeting:
1. Accreditation V1.20
2. Examination V1.20
3. Certification V1.20
2. The following processes were trialed released in Vienna meeting:
1. Mentoring Plan V0.70
2. Glossary for Process V0.20
3. Compendium V0.90
3. Current additional Processes Status:
   1. In review:
      1. Expansion – new release (ASTQB to prepare a suggestion paper)
      2. Cross recognition between boards – new process (Klaus to prepare a suggestion paper)
   2. Internal discussion:
      1. ISTQB member board structure – new process
      2. Accreditation of Trainers – enhancement to the Accreditation process

TBD