Further persuit of SE process development is liable to be counterproductive

Facilitator: Stephen Cook Speakers:

For: Stuart Arnold, UK, Errol Lawson, Australia.

Against: Ken Jackson UK, James Martin, US

Errol Lawson
Errol is an adjunct academic staff member of the University of South Australia and principal of the consulting firm Errol Lawson and Associates. Errol's consultancy specialises in the application of systems methodologies to enhance the capabilities of both private and public Defence sectors. His research interests at the University include determining the nature of complex socio-technical systems and their management. Before starting his own company, Errol was Director, Defence and Aerospace Policy for the South Australian Department of State Development. Before that, he had amassed 25 years' experience at DSTO, the last seven of which as the Principal Engineer in charge of the Electronics Engineering Branch of the Advanced Engineering Laboratory.

Stuart Arnold
Stuart Arnold is Systems Engineering Manager in DERA's Systems and Software Engineering Centre. In his early career, Stuart was engaged in research into microwave systems at Roke Manor Research. His systems engineering knowledge draws heavily on many years of international industrial experience working for Philips in the development, manufacture and product support of civilian and defence systems. Before moving into government service, Stuart was Software Engineering Manager for Thorn EMI Sensors. He is the Editor of the emerging systems engineering standard, ISO/IEC 15288, and contributed to the current versions of IEEE1220 and EIA632. Stuart is the Systems Engineering Head of Profession for DERA and is a Fellow of the IEE.

James Martin
James N. Martin is an internationally known writer and lecturer on systems engineering. He wrote one of the most widely read books on systems engineering, "Systems Engineering Guidebook", published by CRC Press. His experience includes seventeen years in systems development of telecommunications products and services (most of this with Bell Labs) as program manager, systems engineering manager, system architect, requirements manager, and lead systems engineer. His experience with technology varies from mobile wireless, underwater fiber optic, satellite broadband wireless, reconnaissance systems, and airborne network hubs. At the Aerospace Corporation, Mr. Martin is a system architect for communications networks and space systems. He led the development of ANSI/EIA 632, the US national standard that defines the processes for engineering a system. Mr. Martin graduated with an MS from Stanford and a BS from Texas A&M. He has been elected a Fellow member of INCOSE.

Ken Jackson
From 1965 until 1980, Mr Jackson worked for the UK Ministry of Defence research establishment at Malvern on fast response embedded real time systems especially guided weapons but also air defence, air traffic control, ship command systems, etc. During that time he also developed the MASCOT design method for embedded software systems. From then until 1992, he worked for UK Software House (eventually bought by EDS) on tools to support team developments in large project situations. These tools were used on the Eurofighter technology demonstrator and Rapier 2000. From 1993 until 1995, Mr Jackson was an independent consultant working for a variety of organisations. Since 1995 he has been working for QSS (Telelogic) Consultancy to support the use of DOORS. He has also been involved with the development of add-on tools to support comparative assessment of proposals in competitive bid situations. Mr Jackson holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham (UK) and is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the IEEE and a Member of the British Computer Society.