Andrea Herrmann is professor for software engineering at the AKAD University in Stuttgart (Germany). She has more than 25 years of work experience in practice and in research: as consultant and project manager in IT projects, in research and university teaching, three guest professorships. She wrote more than 100 publications, regularly speaks at conferences, associate member at IREB, co-author of syllabus and handbook for the CPRE Advanced Level in Requirements Management.