Cognition Cockpit Overview

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

Engineering Budget Post Launch

“Firefighting” Product Design

Cumulative Engineering Investment

Project Hours reported per month

requirements:  Their PDP is designed to prevent problems.

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

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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

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Web address for the Cockpit

Enter your username and password from your corporate LDAP server

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Click here for browser check 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 •

Risk Management / FMEA •

V&V / Test Management •

Instant traceability throughout all levels of your system •

Cockpit is integrated with the following tools  Out of the box, Cockpit works with:

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

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More tools can be custom connected at any time

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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  

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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