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@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) stockleinolsen“at“gmail.com
5. Han Toan Lim (Dutch/Belgian) h.t.lim”at”iae.nl
6. Geoff Thompson (UK) thommo”at” totalise.co.uk
7. Anton Schlatter (Germany) Anton.Schlatter”at”logicacmg.com
8. Debi Zylbermann (Israel) dzylbermann”at“gmail.com
9. Anders Pettersson (Sweden) anders.pettersson “at” sstb.se
10. Stephan Georicke (Ukraine) stephan.goericke “at” isqi.org
11. Kenji Onishi (Japan) Kenji “at” mamezou.com
12. Toms Steven (Australia & New-Zealand) steve.toms “at” cba.co.au

If any board is interested to become a review working party member please send your application for membership via email to the Working Party chair.

Note: few members decide to leave due to other obligations they had and few joined us lately.

Former and current major milestones status:

1. Current Processes Status:
   1. Released processes:
   1. Review
   2. ISTQB meeting structure
   3. Certification (package)
   4. Examination (package)
   5. Accreditation (package)
   2. Initiate ‘Implementation Report Card’ to get feedback on processes implementation status in ISTQB national boards.
   3. Expansion process – prepared and ready for review.
   4. Initiate the review of GTB processes – 1^st set of documents.
   5. Change board or new board member – process submitted to WP by BNTQB.
   6. Change Management (TBD)
2. Collection of replies for ‘Implementation Report Card’ from national boards – see relevant status table.
3. Aggregation of comments to released processes (End of Q1 2008).

Next major milestones approach:

1. Review 1st set of GTB processes (end of June 2008)
2. Initiate 2nd set of GTB processes for review (Q2 2008)

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.

TBD