Month: November 2018

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Happy Saint Andrew’s Day 2018

Wishing everyone a Happy Saint Andrew’s Day

We would like to wish all our customers, suppliers and followers a Happy Saint Andrew’s day 2018 from 3SL.

Whether a descendent of the Picts, Scots, or Angles, we hope the only battle today will be how best to model interactions in Cradle!

COD Collaboration Diagram

A Use Case is a class of interactions between actors in a UML model’s environment and the system. Each may be complex or compound and may require decomposition into simpler Use Cases. Each path through the possible options in a Use Case, (an  event flow) is called a scenario.

Scenarios can be described by a COD. This diagram  shows the details of the interaction of the environment and part(s) of the system.  On a UCD these are the external actors with the appropriate classes and their object instances. Each interaction is represented in terms of an exchange of messages. The COD focuses on clearly showing the totality of message transfers between all the actors and classes/object instances involved in the scenario. Similarly a SQD (Sequence diagram would be used to highlight the chronological ordering of the events.

Depicting the battle of Athelstaneford as a COD (Collaboration Diagram)
The Battle of Athelstaneford

Whilst the battle at Athelstaneford, is over simplified in this diagram, it still shows how a more detailed interaction of the whole Use Case can be illustrated. Therefore, if you ever want a reminder of why the Saltire of Saint Andrew was chosen as the emblem of Scotland…. The legend of the clouds vision to Óengus II COD diagram, may be a handy reminder. For more information see the Cradle help section for COD.

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Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2018

Flash Discount Sale

Great BlackFriday / CyberMonday deal for November 2018. Take advantage while you can!

Hurry Hurry Hurry, #BlackFriday / #CyberMonday deal

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Five Pound Notes

We hope you’ll agree that Cradle is already a great value package in any of its single user or enterprise versions. It combines a hugely powerful Requirements Management tool for massively scalable requirements engineering, with Model Based Systems Engineering capabilities (MBSE). From the initial inception of your project through the elicitation, analysis, design, testing and documentation phases of your project, Cradle is there to support you. With this great offer we’re giving you even better value, or offering to support a charity – see ‘Enterprise licences’.

Single User Product Discount

Use the special discount voucher code to get £50** off any single user product. If you’re not already on the latest version of Cradle, this is an ideal opportunity to upgrade.

All you need to do is enter the  £50** discount voucher code in the “Discount Code” field at the bottom of the shop checkout page during the Friday to Monday flash deal.

Enterprise Licences

We will offer £50** off EACH licence purchased during the offer period. This may be taken as a discount from your invoice or you can nominate a registered charity of your choice and 3SL will make an equivalent donation. If you find your project is expanding and you add a single REQ licence for another engineer you can claim one £50** discount / donation. If you are buying a new set of licences for a project say 5-REQ, 2-SYS and 1-DASH that’s a total of 8*£50 = £400 off the licence cost, or a lovely donation to a charity of your choice.

Enter your code NOW!

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INCOSE – EMEA Sector Systems Engineering Conference 2018

INCOSE Systems Engineering Conference2018 

Monday 5th – Wednesday 7th November, 2018

INCOSE host the premier conference of systems engineering and related disciplines in Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). If you would like to find out more about Cradle come and say “Hello” or “Guten Morgen / Guten Tag” to us at booth 20.

This year’s conference is at the Mercure Hotel, Stephanstraße, Berlin.

Follow INCOSE @incose_org on Twitter or talk about it with #emeasec

 

 

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November 2018 Newsletter

Remember, Remember

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Firework

There’s quite a bit to remember this month whether it’s the  failed plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, or the war fallen.

“Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot!” Might be a good way to cement a date in your mind we humans tend to like rhymes, songs, and mnemonics to help our brains ‘visualise’ an otherwise abstract date or fact. However, trying to remember what’s needed and when on a large project is really quite difficult. Especially when dates are not fixed.

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Relative Date Query

Cradle offers a number of ways you can track your project one of which is querying on relative dates.

For example an item representing a ‘test’ that needs to be run could be set with a category of type date. You could then query on ‘tests‘ that are due to occur (or should have occurred) before the end of next week. It is also possible to query on a range, say beginning of this month and end of next week.

For work breakdown items there are some built-in ranges which can be accessed on the Progress tab of query. This gives a planning view of where your project stands.

The Fallen

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Remembrance

3SL join with our customers, friends and suppliers, on this armistice day,  to take a moment to remember those who have fallen fighting for their countries. There is a special poignance this year, the 100th anniversary since the signing of the armistice treaty between first world war allies and Central Powers.

Cradle Subscriptions

Cradle Software As A Service
Cradle SAAS subscription product

Last month saw the launch of an addition to the Cradle family.

Cradle Subscriptions option is a SaaS (Software as a Service) product that provides access to 3SL’s requirements management and systems engineering tool Cradle using remote servers.  This means there is no need to install software on your own company systems.

Options

There are a number of bundles covering the most frequently requested configurations of Cradle. The choices reflect whether you are performing both Systems Engineering and RM, or just Requirements Management.

There are also different hosting options depending on the size/loads and locations of the servers. Choose between shared 3SL hosted or dedicated cloud environments. For further information see the product announcement.

Mini Poll

Please answer our Mini Poll, whether you prefer the:ownership, control and flexibility of software purchase,

    • simplified, outsourced benefits of a managed service.
    • don’t really mind, I just use it
    • there’s room for both…..
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INCOSE

INCOSE

We’re at the INCOSE EMEASEC 2018 conference in Berlin Nov 05, 2018 – Nov 08, 2018. Come and say ‘Hello’ to us at booth 20.

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