Jama Connect vs. SpiraTeam

For the past year, I had taken on the Jama Administrator role for
my client and was able to quick learn how to configure the system to
meet requirements and expectations of ASPICE, Functional Safety, and
Automotive Cybersecurity as well as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards
focused on quality. Jama Connect is one of the
most powerful engineering tools I've ever had a chance to use. It not
only does exactly what's advertised and the customer service and
technical support are Best-in-Class. For those who are searching for a
Requirements Management Tool, I highly recommend you give Jama a try.
They've got everything down to a science from the moment you start
interacting with a Jama representative, to the training and the
on-boarding. The learning curve was very quick for me, in large part
due to the amazing technical support that I was able to receive from
Jama's subject matter experts. Every person whom I spoke with about the
tool and its capabilities was absolutely top-notch. If you really want to level-up your game, try Jama Connect Advisor. Get yourself a free demo. You won't find any better tool for Requirements Management!

• Requirements Management in general
• Focus in the content without loosing the track of the evolution of the items by maintaining the exchange of information between the users inside the Tool.
• The possibilities to integrate this tool within our IT-landcape and with our other engineering tools is for us a leverage to success.

Incentivized

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• Very easy to use.
• Entire collaboration suite for the software development lifecycle.
• Configurable to particular project needs.

• The 'filtering' capabilities in Jama are not as good as they could be. In particular, the ability to "nest" filters is quite limited. I have certain seen much better capabilities in other tools. ('Cradle' is an example of a tool with excellent "nested filters" capabilities.)
• From an administrative point of view, the 'License' admin view is pretty disappointing. The particular thing that I'd like to be able to find out from it is the peak number of 'Float Creator' licenses in concurrent use on each day. If there's a way to get to that information, I haven't found it yet.

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• Some more sample reports or allow for a cross reference reporting engine

Jama is really easy to use and operate compared to other tools. This allows a process owner to get easier buy-in from the organization to see value early. My experience with this tool was very positive and we were able to see value early in its introduction

Incentivized

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The usability is excellent in most cases but lacks some intuitive functions, such as a copy to the clipboard for selected items. In fact, in an older version, a COPY button copied all selected records rather than putting it on the clipboard. The button has been renamed recently to CLONE, otherwise, my rating would be lower.

• One experience that converted an engineer to using Jama Connect was an electronics engineer that was writing test plans. I showed them about how to write "unit" or very discrete tests and then showed them an automatic export to get the document. Thus the authoring of the document effort was taken away, they could focus on defining the test
• Unfortunately I have very much struggled to embed systems engineering, requirements management and Jama Connect as part of the 'ways of working' outside the systems and electronics teams.

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• Better historical information about what happend in past releases, deeper integration with the whole software development life cycle.