Active Requirements Management with

Cognition Cockpit Version 5.1

Summary of Overview:
 General information about Cognition
 How Cockpit supports Active Requirements Management
 Some details before we begin a live session with Cockpit
Cognition History

 Cognition has been offering tools and services for

product development for 10 years
 Cognition has two products:
• Cognition Cockpit
• Enterprise Cost Management
 Products are integrated to provide a tool for complete
management of product performance and cost
 We are successful is because we provide engineers
with collaborative solutions to problems they face every
day, without adding overhead and additional time
burdens to already heavy demands.
 Typical Early Stages of a
Product Development Process (PDP)

Typical Process
 Is the PDP delivering success?
 Data still shows launch issues from missed
requirements:
 Their PDP is designed to prevent problems.
Engineering Budget

Cumulative Engineering Investment

Project Hours reported per month

Post Launch

“Firefighting”
Product Design
Are companies meeting product requirements?

 The Aberdeen Group, reports frequency of missed targets:

Are companies meeting revenue and cost targets?

 Missed revenue and cost targets are also reported:

What are the implications of missed product requirements?

 The negative results of their issues are seen in the news:

What are the implications of missed product requirements?

 The negative results of their issues are seen in the news:

What are the implications of missed product requirements?

 The negative results of their issues are seen in the news:

Are companies improving yet – is a good PDP helping?

 Analysts report that despite investments, meeting targets is the

same or worse compared to previous years:
 So, what is the problem?

 Analysts are independently

forming a strong opinion:
 The PDP is fine.
 The problem is PDP execution.
 Teams find many steps stifling,
labor intensive and skip them.
 Engineers often have no
integrated functional model
with all product requirements.
How can the Cockpit help?

 Why is PDP execution a problem?

 Too complex
 Tools are too hard to use
 No common data framework or functional model for all product data

 How can we improve it?

 Need something engineers will want to use
 The engineer needs to feel the process and tools help make their job easier
 The tools used by the engineer need to link all parts of the product development
data together into a complete functional model
 Customer voices
 Hardware requirements
 Software requirements
 Product performance modeling results for critical parameters
 Cost Management
 Failure modes and risks
 Verification, Validation and test data
How does the Cockpit help?
The Cockpit enables collaboration for the entire product
development process using a web based easy to use interface.
The Cockpit manages the total PDP
The Cockpit now enables collaboration for the entire product
development process using a web based easy to use interface.
All Cockpit access is through Internet Explorer

Web address for the Cockpit

1

Enter your username

and password from your
corporate LDAP server

Click here for browser check

2 Confirms your IE configuration is
correct for the Cockpit
Customer Customizable Interface
• Customizable interface for reports, views, read-only, etc.
• Custom user defined attributes at any level
Document management
• Acts as a web based corporate shared drive
• Automatically generates documents based on current project data
• All documents have full versioning and access control
Full version and configuration control for all project data

• Each project can have as many frozen versions as desired

• Each individual item (VOC, requirement, risk) is separately versioned
• Details of changes available for entire project or any item
Customizable activity templates to match your PDP
• Cognition provides many sets of templates out of the box
• Templates are easily modified by you to match your PDP process
• Templates provide access to all Cockpit features and reports
Needs/Voice collection capabilities
• Word templates for automatic interview & survey imports
• Interview & Survey results summary automatically generated
• KJ Analysis to organize raw voice inputs
• Affinity diagrams with red and blue groupings sort inputs
Needs/Voice collection capabilities

• Prioritize all of your voices for translation into requirement

(Voice of Customer, Voice of Business, Voice of Regulatory, etc.)
House of Quality / QFD

• Document based HOQ reports at all levels of the product structure

• Organized by product subsystems, category, BOM, etc.
Requirements / Critical Parameter Management

• Support all types of product requirements, use cases, features, etc.

• Track actual numerical values including nominal and variation
Scorecard reports at all levels of your system

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Risk Management / FMEA

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V&V / Test Management

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Instant traceability throughout all levels of your system

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Cockpit is integrated with the following tools

 Out of the box, Cockpit works with:

 MS Word
 MS Excel
 MS Powerpoint
 Crystal Ball
 @Risk
 Minitab
 Matlab
 Enventive

 More tools can be custom connected at any time

 com, ole, corba, odbc, java, html, xml, api’s…
Licensing, Support, Maintenance, Training

 Cockpit is a web 2.0 application so users only need Internet

Explorer to log in
 Cockpit is available as a perpetual(permanent) license with
annual maintenance or as a subscription(annual fee) license
 Cognition provides full customer support via phone, email, fax,
live web/support sessions and in person. Cognition has offices
in Boston, MA, Paris, and Birmingham, UK
 Annual maintenance & technical support are included with
perpetual licenses and with subscription licenses
 Cockpit training is available at any Cognition location, at your
location, and via live web session training classes.
 Basic user training is 2 days
 Advanced(lead user/admin) training is 4 days
 Cockpit uses the Object Store database on it server which is the
database used by Amazon.com and many others