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Cradle‐RM Desktop

Requirements Management Across the Systems Lifecycle

Cradle‐RM Desktop

Cradle‐RM Desktop

RC05308

RC05208

Cradle‐RM Desktop

Cradle‐RM Desktop

Cradle‐RM Desktop

RC05308

RC05208

Cradle‐RM Desktop

Cradle‐RM Desktop

Overview

Cradle‐RM Desktop can manage data for all of your project phases. Capture data from external documents or tools and track changes to these sources. Build new sets of requirements, functions, components, interfaces, tests or verifications and link them to the source data and each other. Check the quality of textual statements and data structures. Prove information integrity with traceability and coverage analyses. Raise customers’ confidence with proof that your work satisfies its source data, complies fully with its constraints, and will meet customers’ needs. Easily track your progress with metrics and KPIs and link your WBS and actual progress to project planning tools.

Full Details

You can create any number of projects, each with a schema and a database of any number of items of any number of user‐defined types. Each item can have any number of attributes with up to 1 TByte of data, held in Cradle, or referenced in files, URLs or other tools. All items can be linked with user‐defined types of cross reference. Links have attributes to justify, parametise or explain them. Links are direct and indirect, for full lifecycle traceability, impact and coverage analyses. External documents can be loaded into hierarchies of items. Every requirement, regulation or other item in Cradle is linked to its origin in a document. Changes in new document versions are automatically found and the database updated. You can prove the integrity of your source data to customers with a full range of coverage analyses of their documents.

Cradle is simple to customise and use. You do not need to learn a scripting language or become a programmer to tailor it to your process. After every change to your schema, Cradle will automatically update collections of queries, views and other definitions that make you productive immediately.

Cradle‐RM Desktop is one of the Cradle product range. The full, multi‐user, product is Cradle Enterprise.

Supports the full systems development lifecycle at system, subsystem and lower levels
Integrates in one product features normally spread across separate tools from different vendors
Completely user-definable and user-extensible with point-and-click UIs
Manage any information, including requirements, risks, interfaces, tests and verifications
Scalable to millions of items of information
Full traceability of data to source and generated documents with complete version management
Full traceability and coverage analyses
User-definable views of data including tables, trees, documents, matrices, diagrams and graphs
User-defined metrics and management dashboards

Major Features

Supports full system lifecycle
Agile and phase processes
Process independent
Supports RM
Supports managing functions and components
Supports test management
Optionally manage Cost and System Breakdown Structures
Supports feature-driven development (FDD)
Supports project V&V
Load source documents (text, tables, figures and links)
Manage source document versions and differences
Full lifecycle transitive traceability and coverage
User-defined items and attributes
User-defined link types, link rules and link attributes
Spell checking
Quality (conformance) checks
Direct editing in tables and in user-defined forms
1:1, 1:N, M:N linking of all items
Drag-and-drop linking
Graphical traceability views
User-defined queries, views, forms, hierarchies, navigations
Make child, sibling, hierarchy
Split and merge items
Reordering of item hierarchies
Suspect item displays
User-defined metrics
Automated change histories
User-defined calculations
User-defined progress graphs
User-defined pivot tables
User-defined matrices
Automatic WBS and progress reporting
User-defined dashboards and KPIs
User-defined reports to CSV, Word, HTML, Excel
User-defined Start Page UIs
User-defined commands in table views
Import/export for XML (any schema), CSV, Cradle and ReqIF
Automated batch reporting from command line utilities