What is Cradle?

• Loading external information
• Manage requirements, user needs/stories, and a product backlog
• Analyse and model user needs, (optional MBSE)
• Define constraints of the design
• Outline the architecture (also optional with models)
• Create the design (also optional with models)
• Identify and track tests, issues and defects at any level
• Manage system validation and user acceptance
• Conduct analyses like traceability and coverage in the entire lifecycle or individual parts
• Publish documents utilizing user-defined layouts and templates
• Manage user task lists and work breakdown structures, record project progress, and bi-directionally link to project planning tools
• Share and reuse information between projects

Each database in Cradle has items linked by cross references. This allows the definition of the types of items, characteristics and attributes. You define the types of references and attributes and the linking rules you establish. For roles and capabilities, you can define users and teams and the authentication and access policies. Cradle allows the definition of the workflows by which the information is formally reviewed, baselined and changed.

Cradle offers several options: parsing documents, loading spreadsheets, importing from files or other tools, and keying data manually.

Creating new items in each agile sprint or development phase, Cradle works with the information in specific detail. You can define queries to find information and views to present it as lists, tables, documents or trees. Cradle can create your own view commands to allow you to work more efficiently.

You create and manipulate cross references between items by drag-and-drop and through hierarchy diagrams and matrices.

With the toolset in Cradle, you can analyze your information for consistency and quality (both text and models). You analyze the traceability and coverage of information using tables, diagrams, and matrices.

From Cradle, you can publish information from user-defined reports, or as template documents with your organization's standard layouts and formatting. Every item in the database is trackable down to every word of these documents, ensuring that when the changes occur, they are propagated appropriately.

All Cradle products are: