December Newsletter 2023

Welcome to the December 2023 newsletter from 3SL!

This newsletter contains a mixture of news and technical information about us, and our requirements management and systems engineering tool “Cradle”. We would especially like to welcome everyone who has purchased Cradle in the past month and those who are currently evaluating Cradle for their projects and processes.

We hope that 3SL and Cradle can deliver real and measurable benefits that help you to improve the information flow within, the quality and timeliness of, and the traceability, compliance and governance for, all of your current and future projects.

If you have any questions about your use of Cradle, please do not hesitate to contact 3SL Support.

Public Training Course Calendar 2024

The courses available in 2024 are listed below. You can now see a list of the public courses available here within the Public Training Courses panel.

You can also book your place on one of the courses here.  For details of the modules in each course, please see here.

User Course

This course provides an overview of Cradle’s capabilities including best practices and includes demonstrations of the major Cradle features. This course is excellent for new users to familiarise themselves with Cradle.

The 2024 dates for this course are:

Requirements Management

This is a great opportunity for small teams, or just new team members to get started with requirements management in Cradle, including loading information from external sources, organising it, evolving it through your process, and then publishing the integrated information set that this creates.

The 2024 dates for this course are:

Document Publisher

Make your output shine with this course that explains how to create and publish document templates using Cradle’s Document Publisher tool. Once you have managed your requirements, models, risks and tests through your process, it is essential that you can deliver essential, accurate and consistent project documentation directly from this integrated set of information.

The 2024 dates for this course are:

Risk Management

Learn how to identify, analyse, treat and monitor your project’s risks, link them to your requirements, SBS and other information and manage these risks and their mitigations. This course ensures you can implement your risk management plan, manage your risk registers and publish your risk profiles.

The 2024 dates for this course are:

Test Management and Execution

Learn how to integrate a complete suite of test plans and test cases into your project data, and how to execute test runs of these test plans and cases so as to collect test results and associated data for each step in the test cases. Apply this mechanism at all module/unit, subsystem, system and higher levels to deliver the V&V, acceptance and governance of your project.

The 2024 dates for this course are:

Configuration Management

Learn how to use Cradle’s workflow and CM system to manage the creation and evolution of items of information, how to formally review these items into project baselines, and how to make formally controlled changes to new instances of these items.

The 2024 dates for this course are:

Project Administration Course

Learn how to configure Cradle to best support your project’s processes and to deliver that process support to your users. This is a great opportunity for project managers to understand their schemas and Cradle UI customisations.

The 2024 dates for this course are:

Latest Updates

The latest technical and related topics in our blog are:

Follow these links to see the latest blog updates and then use the blog’s search to find other topics of interest! With over 500 posts in the blog, we are sure that you will find lots to interest you in the details of Cradle and 3SL!

We would also like to thank all attendees on our Test Execution course which we provided in November and the attendees on the Configuration Management course which we provided at the start of December.

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Happy Christmas

May we take this opportunity to wish you, our wonderful customers, suppliers and distributors, season’s greetings and a peaceful and Happy Christmas. We wish you all the best in 2024.

Happy Christmas based on Photo by Giftpundits.com from Pexels

Lookback

Well 2023 seems to have gone so quickly, in writing our December 2023 newsletter, we take a look back at what happened:

  • Cyber Essentials re-assessment successful
  • Listed as a supplier in the Emergency Services Mobile Communication Programme (ESMCP)
  • ISO-9001 recertification
  • Continued our support of Circus Starr
  • Compliance information published using JOSCAR
  • Continuing support from our customers attending our public online training courses (again thank you to everyone who attended and who provided feedback)

During 2023 we have been working on the latest update to Cradle – Cradle-8.0. This update contains many enhancements, the main enhancement being the user interface. Cradle-8.0 comes with two themes (light and dark) – examples are shown below:

Example Light Theme
Example Light Theme
Example Dark Theme
Example Dark Theme

Once we have a release date for Cradle-8.0 we will let you know.

And Finally …

That’s all for the December 2023 newsletter, and indeed this year. If you would like to suggest a topic for next time, drop us a line social-customer@threesl.com.

Your Highlights

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