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Jama Connect

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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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Best-in-Class Requirements Management tool

Susan Butler
Principal and General Manager in Professional Services at Nauto, Inc. (51-200 employees employees)

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

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Incentivized
Maxwell Delamere-Sanders
R&D Specialist, System Architect in Research & Development at Boston Scientific (10,001+ employees employees)

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

Incentivized
Charles Hannah
Senior System Engineer in Engineering at Reutech Radar Systems (201-500 employees employees)

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

Use of Jama Connect within the context of the energy transition in the utility sector

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Product Management (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organisation uses Jama Connect for the purpose of requirements development and management. This scope is from the business level (in which we speak with business stakeholders) to the technical level (the implementation of the business stakeholder needs and desires). This allows for more targeted development of products in the context of the energy transition

Pros

  • Audit log of alterations to requirements
  • Traceability between requirements
  • Flexability of the tool

Cons

  • Multiple releases per requirement
  • Activity Stream that is limited when people only have access to parts of the project

Return on Investment

  • Clear insight into requirements
  • One source of truth-principle
  • Controlled changes and alterations

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel

Jama, A tool which we cannot replace once we used to

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Jama is being used as a test management tool in my company. Am using Jama since 3+ years, and i can tell you that this was one of the best Test management tools I've ever used. Everything is so easy to understand and the interface is user friendly. Easy to use and can learn this tool fastly. I use this for Test plan, Test cases authoring, Test execution and results review along with the close out documentation. I definitely recommend other organisations to use this tool.

Pros

  • Re using process is easy
  • Uploading the documents and files can be done.
  • We can export our file's and TC's as well
  • Adding new projects in jama along with the TC templates, can be done in minutes
  • We can lock our Test cases and Results as well, which is a good one. So that our data is safe and secured

Cons

  • Search results need be improve a lot. Once i tried to find a Test case. But it displayed more than 80k TC's from all the projects
  • Creating filters are bit complicated. Try to make the process easy if possible
  • While exporting the files, I've seen a common issue in all formats, where first 2 pages are blank. I don't know why, but it's waste of cloud storage. Even though it's "KB" it matters
  • Some times I've seen one issue, in very rare conditions. I've authored the TC it took almost 5hrs to author. When i clicked on save & done button. It just kept on loading, i left it for hours. But sadly it didn't saved. 5 hrs of my work was wasted. This issue was faced by multiple people in my company

Return on Investment

  • Nothing went wrong and no blocker issues so far which impacts the business
  • Recent issues we have seen is that, even we finalize the TC, it's still in draft.

Alternatives Considered

Polarion ALM

Other Software Used

Jira Align, Octane, Polarion ALM

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