#1 most frequent
United States of America
66.5%151 installations of 227
What is Jama Connect?
Jama Connect® is a Requirements Management software and Requirements Traceability solution. Jama Software enables teams to manage product requirements and enable Live Traceability™ across the development process, in order to reduce cycle times and improve product quality.
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Screenshot of Jama Connect - Live Traceability
Who Buys & Uses Jama Connect
#1 most frequent
Manufacturing
48.2%108 installations of 224
“streamlining collaboration, reviews and traceability of requirements are really the strength of Jama Connect.”
#2 most frequent
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
21.0%47 installations of 224
#3 most frequent
Information
8.0%18 installations of 224
#2 most frequent
Germany
7.0%16 installations of 227
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.3%12 installations of 227
Pros
- Robust traceability features for linking requirements
- Effective requirements collection and organization
- Streamlines collaboration and review processes
Cons
- Limited flexibility in customization and data export options
- User interface and experience issues, including clutter and visibility
- Performance concerns such as slow page loading and text editor instability
Best-in-Class Requirements Management tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Engineering Team at my client was focused on developing the ability to demonstrate their engineering organization's ASPICE capabilities as they worked to improve their overall software quality. One of the necessary considerations was to have a Requirements Management tool that could support traceability. The use case focused primarily on software engineering and software development.
Pros
- Easy to configure
- Out of box capabilities
- Incredible customer service
- Incredible technical support
- Powerful tool and add-ons
- Goldilocks flexibility
Cons
- Could add capability for Project Admin to upload image per project at highest level to make visually easier to identify one out of many
- Could offer a 'free' version that can be used on only 1 project with limited functionality
- Free version could also allow JCA to be trialed - what better way to get people hooked on how easy it is to use, than to offer a Free version. Get them hooked, then have them become a subscriber. Functionality would need to be very limited because of the power of the tool. Be sure tech support is aligned with these users - to demonstrate the incredible support Jama provides with a funded subscription. An easy way to bump off the competition!
Return on Investment
- Positive impact teaching how to write good requirements
- Positive impact learning how easy it is to do traceability
- Positive impact learning how to document test plans and test outcomes
- Positive impact with routings and approvals
- Business objectives are still a work in progress to meet but company is well on its way to meeting those related to Jama
Alternatives Considered
Advisor
Other Software Used
Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, Microsoft Visio, GitHub, TestRail
Jama Connect Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our organization uses Jama for requirements and risk management, as well as design verification and validation activities. Jama allows us to maintain traceability between system and subsystem requirements, test cases, and risk file line items. Having a single source of truth for our design history file content has been extremely valuable for future iterative new product development projects and scope assessments for design changes.
Pros
- Revision control and revision history
- Design requirement traceability
- Test case management and execution
Cons
- Report configuration requires knowledge of Velocity and the Jama API
- Jama can be slow when handling large datasets
- Better tools for creating and managing large numbers of relationships
Return on Investment
- Streamlined design change management
- Reduced rework burden from changes to requirements or traceability
- Let time spent copying and pasting between documents
- Fewer errors from incorrect item IDs in documents
Succesfull Jama Application for Software Audit
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Jama application is for a development project which has a combined hardware and software aspects and requires DO178 standards on the software. Jama Connection together with Gitlab are enabling application and easy auditing and traceability with testing coverage
Pros
- Version management
- traceability
- coverage with test cases
Cons
- reviews management
Return on Investment
- It saves time for reviews and approval cycles by up to 50% compared to our normal process and cuts down on waiting periods.
Other Software Used
GitLab
An engaging tool to enable success within teams and organisations
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Jama Connect to be more than just a requirements management tool - we are using Jama Connect as the single source of truth to contain not just the requirements, but the why and how the system is the way it is. My organisation has only just started on its journey to adopt systems engineering, so we are using Jama Connect to start that engagement with stakeholders from senior members of the organisation, to individual designers and engineers.
Pros
- Simple, user-friendly interface
- Web-based
- Rich text information i.e. not just plain, unformatted text
Cons
- In the relationship definition, it would be good to be able to manually sort the list
- When in the Review perspective, you can only see "title", "desription" and "status" - it would be good to be able to tune what is visible
- The basic exporting I find very difficult to get what you need, then Velocity is another step up in complexity (but also capability) a non-admin installer for an IDE to allow testing during development of a velocity script would be helpful.
Return on Investment
- 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.
A good solid requirements management tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
we use Jama Connect for requirements management, test management as well as a collaboration plattform in the innovation process.
Pros
- Traceability
- Requirements can be structured in different dimensions
- Change management
Cons
- lack of AI features, which work with languages other than english
- dynamic dashboard
- lack of in-tool presentation of time series analysis
- Issues in text editor with large images in certain browsers
- branching and merging in the context variant management
Return on Investment
- improve quality of requirements management process
- improve transpareny in change management
- good traceability helps managing the complexity
Alternatives Considered
codeBeamer ALM and Modern Requirements4DevOps
