Cradle
Multi-user requirements management and software / systems engineering tool for agile / phased based projects.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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What is Cradle?
Cradle by 3SL is a requirements management and software / systems engineering tool for agile and phase-based projects including MBSE, agile development, document & project management. Cradle supports small or large teams, either co-located or distributed. It can support part or all of your entire systems development process, from initial requirements definition through analysis, architecture and detailed design, to test, deployment, acceptance and commissioning. It provides user-controllable levels of access control, change history tracking, and includes a full configuration management and control system with formal change control, reviews, baselines, version management and user-defined workflows. Cradle can be linked into any number of external tools for specific engineering disciplines. Cradle has user-defined and user-configurable non-web and web UIs. Cradle is available for in-house deployment or as a variety of SaaS solutions.
Common uses of Cradle:
- Capture and manage requirements, assumptions, justifications…
- Create models of use cases, functions, classes, data relationships
- Build system-of-systems, system or subsystem architectures
- Identify and manage system / subsystem interfaces
- Allocate functions to subsystems and equipments
- Define performance, AR&M (Availability, Reliability, Maintainability) and effectiveness
- Manage System, Product, Work and Cost Breakdown Structures (SBSs, PBSs, WBSs and CBSs) and link to project management data
- Perform test management at all levels
- Automate project documentation
- Create traceability across the entire lifecycle
- Collect metrics across the entire lifecycle
- Configuration manage and control the project
- Track all formal changes and/or individual edits
- Management information from dashboards, KPIs, burn-down / earned-value charts
- Integrate with desktop and specialist tools
- Provide customised web environments to project groups
Common uses of Cradle:
- Capture and manage requirements, assumptions, justifications…
- Create models of use cases, functions, classes, data relationships
- Build system-of-systems, system or subsystem architectures
- Identify and manage system / subsystem interfaces
- Allocate functions to subsystems and equipments
- Define performance, AR&M (Availability, Reliability, Maintainability) and effectiveness
- Manage System, Product, Work and Cost Breakdown Structures (SBSs, PBSs, WBSs and CBSs) and link to project management data
- Perform test management at all levels
- Automate project documentation
- Create traceability across the entire lifecycle
- Collect metrics across the entire lifecycle
- Configuration manage and control the project
- Track all formal changes and/or individual edits
- Management information from dashboards, KPIs, burn-down / earned-value charts
- Integrate with desktop and specialist tools
- Provide customised web environments to project groups
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- Requirements management
- Model Based Systems Engineering
- SysML
- Links SBS to tests
- Links models to requirements
- Scan documents
- Software developer
- Configuration Management
- Version and Source Control
- Document structure management
- Document tracking
- Software as a Service
- Document templates
- Test case management
- Manage requirements
- Create UML entities
- Links requirements to SBS
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Development • Office & ProductivityTags
- requirement-analysis
- requirements
- modeling
- agile-scrum-tool
- agile-development
- modelling
- UML
- software-requirements
- agile-testing
- agile-alm
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Cradle, and it has gotten 2 likes
- Developed by 3SL
- Proprietary and Commercial product.
- One time purchase ranging between $399 and $639, and / or subscription that costs between $30 and $120.
- Average rating of 4.7
- 20 alternatives listed
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- ooper1usa added Cradle as alternative(s) to Workphase.io3 months ago
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We use 3SL Cradle since the 2006 year. The highly configurable tool with the exceptionally productive user interface. The ability to open a lot of views at once to control the project and its requirements, risks, tasks associated with requirements and any other things that we need to manage makes us very happy and saves a lot of time comparing to purely web-based tools where you usually can't open so much working panels.
Requirements traceability is the key tool for shortening time-to-market and through all these years Cradle is the best tool for requirements traceability.
The great thing is that we can set up and use a distinct model of systems thinking for each project which specifically addresses the management needs of this project.
As a long-term user, I would certainly add some light improvements (like the ability to set up the color for the user start page, better text scaling for my small high-resolution laptop) but these are minor complaints and they are not comparable with the productivity which Cradle gives to system analyst and to all project team.
Long live software. Deep support!
Cradle is an simple environment to establish SE work on your project. Easy to tailored, easy to use. And not expensive. It is practical!