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Aye, It Be Talk Like a Pirate Day

19th Sept 2017

“So me Lads and Lasses, what brings you to 3SL’s shores today?”

“You say your project’s all headed to Davy Jones’s locker?” “What do you say you’ve been using to organise it?”

“Parchment and a pen ye say? Well no surprise it’s not shipshape”

“A landlubber salesman wanted how much silver to give you tools for the job?” “Shiver me timbers, that’d be a right hornswaggle of a deal. Let me at him and I’ll have the scallywag keelhauled” “He’s trying to make you into shark bait, he’ll give pirates a bad name”

“Trust an old seadog like me, more of a privateer you see. Here to keep the pirate salesmen at bay. If you cross me palm with a mere four hundred coins I’ll have ye a top of the range tool for the job. What more could ye want?”

You’ don’t need to talk like a pirate to speak with 3SL, and we certainly won’t be giving you a bad deal. With Single user products in the £249 to £399^{(Sept 2017 prices)} and competitive Enterprise products, there’s always a Cradle to suit your loot.

Happy #StarTrekDay 2017

Celebrate the forward vision of Roddenberry of a collaborative World where we all work together to keep the peace.

OK to celebrate so you could just go and watch all the episodes of Trek, or you could think about the future…

Let your projects live long and prosper. Boldly go into the known with #3SL Enterprise the full muti-user  version  of Cradle. Don’t leave things to chance, plan your requirements and link with your designs to ensure a fully traceable deliverable system.

Remember Personal Communication –  Letter Writing Day.

In these days of mass communication, where one ‘letter’ is emailed to hundreds of recipients or a comment is Tweeted (is that really a verb) to gazillions, it is still really personal to write.

Think how much nicer a Birthday card on the shelf is, (was going to say mantelpiece but in modern underfloor heated super insulated homes there probably isn’t a fireplace), compared to a e-Post “Hiya”. It shows someone has put time and thought into writing to you personally.

www.daysoftheyear.com/days/letter-writing-day   #letterwritinday

We are as guilty as the next, in not sending individual letters to all our customers. Instead we ask you to sign up to our newsletter and then write to you once a month. You’ll find our newsletter easier to read than if we had to hand write it out thousands of times!

So think of a friend or a loved one. Find some paper and a pen and jot them a note, send them a post card, or draw them a doodle.

If you’ve not got enough time, then you could just print out the following, sign and send it. You’ll need an envelope and a stamp……

Race Your Mouse

Did you know it was really a thing? Well, apparently it is. (Search for Race Your Mouse Round the Icons Day, or visit Days Of The Year). It’s celebrated on the 28th August.

Here in  England, Northern Ireland and Wales it is a bank holiday, so this is something you can ;

• try at home if it is raining (it is a English bank holiday after all)
• you have to be in work in case someone contacts you, but nobody does because it is a bank holiday
• do if you’re in work, with IT that is less than responsive, and you want something to amuse yourself while the application loads.

Screen Background

Try downloading this background and arranging your icons. (click the small image to open a full size version and then right click and save as background)

If you need to contact 3SL during the bank holiday, please use your local distributors, or send an email to support@threesl.com and we’ll pick it up on Tuesday 29th.

Brighten Up Your Day

Things may get dark outside for some today with the eclipse 2017. However,  a real #MondayMotivation would be knowing you have the right tools for the job in the week ahead. Don’t be left in the dark, head over to 3SL and make sure you have your copy of Cradle. Be enlightened to the benefits of Requirements Management and Systems Engineering, whatever your task – Be in Control.

For more information about Eclipse 2017on 21st August 2017,  visit the NASA website site.

It’s Friday 30th June and it’s National Cream Tea Day

National Cream Tea Day celebrates a very British tradition of tea and scone. There is a long ‘ranging’ debate as to whether the clotted cream should be spread first then the jam or the jam first followed by cream. This debate has separated Devon and Cornwall for years!

From a design point of view, we offer the following:

• If using clotted cream instead of butter, then it can be spread first with a small dollop of jam atop.
• If you are using whipped cream then it always has to go on after the jam.

Our Extended Functional Flow Block Diagram (eFFBD) allows the user to choose the Devon or Cornwall route. Flexibility in a system’s functions is a crucial part of modelling. Now if you have that #FridayFeeling – go and enjoy a cream tea.

Feel free to share our post with #NationalCreamTeaDay

Annually on June 27 National Sunglasses day commemorates the importance of wearing ultraviolet (UV)-protective  eye-wear #NationalSunglassesDay

It is time to stop viewing Requirements Management through rose tinted spectacles.

If you really believe office tools are up to the job of helping plan and manage your most important developments, you could be looking through rose tinted spectacles.

All too often it is believed that a spreadsheet or word-processor document is sufficient to manage a set of requirements. Only when a project is asked to change a requirement or how they intend to test a feature do things become unstuck.

If a single component is used in a number of places in the project (whether this is a nut or a software module) how easy is it to find all the places that may need attention when the supplier changes the specification?

If something fails, how simple is it to get from the design backwards to the requirement that it was derived from or forwards to the test case that was used to demonstrate it?

Do yourself a favour on National Sunglasses Day 2017 and buy a shiny and bright requirements management tool ! Cradle for all your Requirements and Systems Engineering needs.

http://nationalsunglassesday.com/sunglasses/about/