2003 UK Spring Symposium
Conference Session 1,  13th May 2003

9:00 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Heinz Stoewer, Space Associates GmbH, President Elect of INCOSE

Briefing on INCOSE Centre of Excellence (SECOE) report on Return on Investment for Systems Engineering 3.6MB

1. Selling Systems Engineering – How Do You Show a Positive Return on Investment? by Doug Cowper & Prof. Alan Smith, University College London

2. Using Benefits Management: A Case History  by Clifford Liles, Logica UK Ltd

3. The Need for Available Case Studies to Sell Systems Engineering, and How To Go About Gathering Them by David Croucher, BAE SYSTEMS

4. Title to be confirmed by Stuart Burdett, DSTL

5. Using a Requirements Management Tool in Technical Requirements Negotiations by Bob Dale, MBDA

6. Using Goal Based Requirements in COTS Procurement by David Bush, NATS - paper withdrawn due to illness. Proposed replacement paper (subject to confirmation): A Picture Paints a Thousand words - Using UML2.0 to solve SE problems by Ian Bernard, Telelogic

15:30 Tea

7. Case Study - WCRM Concept of Operations by Dr Jérôme Loubersac, Praxis Critical Systems & Brian Halliday, Network Rail WCRM Programme

8. A Use Case Driven Safety Critical Engineering Application by Stephen Allderidge, Data Systems & Solutions

19:30 The INCOSE Symposium Traditional Dinner

INCOSE UK are very pleased to welcome Stephen Carver from Cranfield University who will give us an extraordinary, account of a project that went wrong. He knows how to both inform and entertain.

Stephen Carver

The after dinner speaker, Mr Stephen Carver of ALS Consultants, should encourage you to attend for at least the one day! You have been spending too much time in the office lately!

Stephen has enthralled and entertained audiences worldwide with his marvellous stories of how real organisations sometimes get their projects wonderfully right - but more usually hideously wrong!

These stories of "projects from hell" range from the tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster through to the wonderful story of how Stephen accidentally found himself building the world's largest clipper ship for Sir Richard Branson and Sir Chay Blyth.

The key to Stephen's captivating style is his ability to show how the lessons learned from these riveting stories can be put into everyday practical use within organisations. Not only is he a successful Masters qualified Project Manager in his own right but he also used to speaking to some of the most demanding audiences - he is a lecturer in Project Management at Cranfield - one of Europe's top business schools. Some of the key lessons that Stephen punches home in his unique high-energy style are:

• The role of leaders in organisations and on projects
• Managing risk & uncertainty
• The difficulties of effective communication.
• The dangers of crisis management

Stephen's Project Management experience spans the whole spectrum from building North Sea oil rigs, implementing organisational change right through to managing financial product launches. His public speaking career started by accident when he was asked by a Client if he would tell one of his "stories" at their annual conferences - word spread and he has been in
great demand ever since!