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Don’t Forget to Vote

Whether you are eligible or not to vote in Local Elections 2018,  and whichever way you decide to vote, don’t forget you can always vote Cradle from 3SL!

Create a good standing for your requirements and system models from the first concept to the final creation choose the right tool for the job.

Celebrate 3SL’s 30th Birthday Year with a Discount

To help celebrate 3SL’s 30th year we’re offering £30^** discounts^*.

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 birthday 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 £30^** 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 ‘secret’ £30^** discount voucher code in the “Discount Code” field  at the bottom of the shop checkout page.

Need help finding a discount voucher? (Look closely!!)

Enterprise Licences

We will offer £30^** 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 £30^** 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*£30 = £240 off the licence cost, or a lovely donation to a charity of  your choice.

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World Amateur Radio Day 18th April 2018

Celebrating world amateur radio day, we look at the way pre internet, radio shrunk the world. Using a variety of frequencies to transmit locally, or over long distances, radio ‘hams’ passed messages round the world long before there was Twitter, SMS or even phone calls. Relays passed on messages acting as go-betweens in the same way our major backbone carriers pass our messages today. However, it was all a little more civilised and ‘human’ rather than a hub of computers and machine readable protocol.

So “CQ from 3SL, calling CQ three sierra lima and listening” “Hello all on World Amateur Radio Day 2018! ” To find out more about your local radio society,  head over to your countries associations. International Amateur Radio Union Radio Society of Great Britain and local to us here in Cumbria Furness Amateur Radio Society 

Near Miss Day – Celebrating on 23rd March 2018

Odd to celebrate something that didn’t happen. However, a large asteroid missing the Earth by 500,000 miles in 1989 is probably something to be thankful for!

We celebrate every time we are able to deflect word processors and spreadsheets away from engineers and businesses trying to achieve requirements management.

Protect Yourself

Ensure you use the right tools for the job and don’t get tangled up in a bunch of uncontrolled, inadequately linked statements against which your project will be developed. Use the protection of a Requirements Management tool with a proven history, that can control, configure and provide full traceability. We’d obviously recommend Cradle!  So take heed and ensure you don’t have a near miss day at work.

International Women’s Day 2018 (March 8th)

We’re celebrating International Women’s day 2018 at 3SL #IWD2018

The mix of staff that make #3SL tick is quite diverse. Every team member is important to the success of the company. Today we recognise the women on the team that include our financial controller, one of the software developers, one of the support engineers and our domestic operative.

Fun Facts About Names Day

A bit of #MondayMotivation, this light heated day is celebrated on the first Monday of March. Have a ponder to think where you came from, what lineage came before you. Despite #FunFactsAboutNamesDay sounding like something Sheldon Cooper ^{(Nerd Alert: Big Bang reference)} may present it is a real ‘day’. So while you’re having your first cuppa (Good British drink of the day) or at the ‘water cooler’ (Is that really a thing??). Challenge a colleague to a Fun Facts About Names!

Meanings

Some are fairly obvious “Smith” and “Cartwright” working in a smithy or making carts. Some a little more tricky “Chalker” one who applies white wash. Then there are the more obscure, lost meanings in time, “Lister”,  a dyer of cloth. (Maybe someone should tell Dave ^{Nerd Alert: Red Dwarf reference})

3SL

So where did we come from? Structured Software Systems Limited ⇒  SSSL ⇒ 3SL that simple really!

National Send a Card to a Friend Day

It’s National Send A Card To A Friend Day 2018 today 7th February.

Send a Card – National Days In these days of e-based everything, the number of people sending physical cards has declined. Placing a card, selected, bought and handwritten,  on the mantelpiece or shelf is still more special than viewing a Tweet/Instagram/FB Message.

If you’re a friend of 3SL’s Cradle and would like to wish 3SL a happy 30th Birthday you could send us a card. Include your company name and website and we’ll feature some of the best in future blog updates^*.

31st January / 1st February

Blighted with cloud and rain for most of the evening on the 31st, we see the last remnants of the super blue blood moon over Barrow-in-Furness on the morning of 1st February. Many more world wide had much better views.

Pinch Punch

“Pinch Punch First of the month”. Were you fast enough to catch someone in your office today? If they are claim you are acting strangely, perpetrating mild violence in the office, try blaming it on the full moon….