Press Release

Cook Enterprise Corporation President Interviewed by Requirements.net on Requirements for Business Processes and Software Applications

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado (February 9, 2009) – Cook Enterprise Corporation, a thought leader for discovering and documenting business processes and software application requirements, announced today that President Brian Cook was interviewed by Requirements.net for its "Maximize IT Value" podcast series. (Click the small triangle on the left side to play interview.)

[Note: Two pages referenced during the interview
are now in a different location on the website:
1) The UC Role Case Study is now located in
UC Concepts 201 in the Role section
2) Use Cases & SOA is now located in
UC Concepts 301]
One of the moderators commented during the interview that Mr. Cook presented the best metaphor for describing the requirements problem that he had ever heard. The metaphor is:

Would you buy a car from a dealer who gives you only a written description? Or from another dealer who presents the text plus engineering diagrams?
Of course not! Yet that is precisely what we expect our customers to do.
You want to experience the car; your customers want to experience the proposed solution. You cannot tell how a car will feel and perform from text or diagrams; your customers cannot tell how a business process or software application will feel and perform from text or diagrams either.
A root cause of requirements problems is the medium historically used to document requirements. Simulating requirements before building reduces risk and cost by adding clarity and building consensus.

About Cook Enterprise Corporation ( www.building-requirements-consensus.com )

Cook Enterprise Corporation helps you add clarity and build consensus with business processes, software requirements, software testing and outsourcing through its Building Requirements Consensus™ methodology and approach.

Our mission is to help organizations discover
where to strengthen their competitive position
by simulating business processes and software requirements,
clarifying them and building consensus,
before investing to implement them.

About Requirements.net ( www.requirements.net - opens in new page )

Requirements.net is home of the industry consortium for business analysis. Through focus on requirements definition, visualization, and management, the companies behind Requirements.net are driven to share and sponsor best practices and technologies to improve industry requirements practices.

Building Requirements Consensus™ is a trademark of Cook Enterprise Corporation. All other company names and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Copyright © 2009 Cook Enterprise Corporation. All rights reserved.

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