Assurance Cases Working Group (ACWG)

The Assurance Cases Working Group (ACWG) has been established to provide guidance on all aspects of assurance cases including construction, review and maintenance.

• It is intended that this will be broader than safety and will address interaction and conflict between related topics.
• This will address aspects such as proportionality, rationale behind the guidance, focus on risk, confidence and conformance
• An important aspect under consideration is the role of counter argument and evidence and the treatment of potential bias in arguments

One of the working groups initial activities is to take on board the maintenance of the Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) Community standard.  See Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) for further details.

Please contact Jane Fenn, contact information below, if you are interested in the activities of this working group and would like to make an active contribution to its work, or would simply like to be kept informed of the group's activities. 

• Participants need to be registered with the scsc.uk website (this website)
• Participant agree to work to the group's Terms of Reference (ACWG_ToR_v3-1176.pdf)

WG Lead Bio

Jane Fenn works for BAE Systems in the FalconWorks, experimental aircraft part of Air Sector.  She has worked in Safety Engineering as a practitioner, researcher and research manager. She is currently undertaking a part-time PhD involving Safety Cases. She is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of both the IET and Safety and Reliability Society, (SaRS).

Jane is a member of the SCSC Steering Group and is the chair of the Assurance Case Working Group which includes responsibility for Maintenance of the Goal Structuring Notation (GSN) standard.

Jane can be contacted at: jane.fenn@scsc.uk