Information Engineering is the methodology of choice for many Fortune 1000 MIS shops. An interlocking set of formal techniques in which business models, data models, and process models are built up in a comprehensive knowledge base and are used to create and maintain information systems. An interlocking set of automated techniques which apply structured planing, analysis, and design to the enterprise as a whole rather than to merely one project. A methodology that creates a corporatewide architectural framework for information systems. An enterprisewide set of disciplines for getting the right informations to the right people at the right time and providing them with tools to use the information.
Cookbooks generally adhere to the waterfall cycle of development.
Cookbooks attempt to decompose software engineering into simple and very discrete activities and steps. Such approaches discount the skills, education, and training of the people by assuming that individuals can learn and execute quickly a simple set of activities. Cookbook authors assure software project management that the cookbook itself is internally consistent, rigorous, and complete, and that complete adherence to the presented approach will yield a usable result. These practices should include project management. OOSE is not a cookbook approach to software engineering.