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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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One stop shop for managing design controls in the medical device industry
Jama - the King of Kings
Jama - satisfied
Test Management
Traceability
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A JAMA review from a startup aviation company
First assessment after Jama Connect set up
Jama: Welcome to the future of RE
The Journey from Paper Documents to Jama Connect
A solid requirements management and traceability tool with room for improvement
Jama Connect is one of the best collaboration softwares on the market
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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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What is Jama Connect?
The #1 problem managing the product development process is identifying risk early across siloed teams and tools.
Missing, changed, or late requirements
Gaps in verification and validation test coverage
Changes made in one engineering discipline that impact others
Product, Systems, and Software Development Teams that Use Jama Connect Perform Better.
With Jama Software's proprietary Traceability Scores™, teams can measure traceability to improve quality and accelerate time to market.
Jama Connect enables these six critical things for development success:
- Intelligently improve requirements
- Bring all collaboration and reviews online
- Unify test case management
- Auto-detect development risk
- Maintain product state across tools
- Manage product complexity and scale
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Jama Connect Integrations
- Jira Software
- Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
- TestRail
- Rally Software
- Tricentis qTest
- Micro Focus ALM Octane
- Planview TaskTop Hub
- Digital.ai TeamForge
- Azure DevOps Server
- QAComplete
- Simulink
- VectorCAST
- Vector (CANoe
- vTESTstudio)
- ANSYS (SCADE Suite and Medini Analyze)
- CATIA No Magic (formerly Cameo/MagicDraw)
- BigLever: Product Line Engineering (PLE)
- Modern Requirements4TFS
- OpsHub Integration Manager
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Jama Connect Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English |
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Jama Connect Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 30% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 70% |
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(1-25 of 62)Perfect tool for small teams
- Having List view and reading views
- Import from Excel and word document
- Powerful API to integrate JAMA with other tools
- Relatively stable system
- lots of good functionalities
- Export/Reports are not easy for the end users. the templates are too complicated
- In my opinion, JAMA does not cope well with large volume of data, e.g. only first 100 in user group are displayed
- defects reporting is complicated
- Report of new features can be done , but with different login info and not the same as reporting defects .
JAMA functions are not so great for very large system ( e.g. for more than 10-20k requirements)
Jama Connect Requirements Management Review
- Requirements Review
- Requirements import and export
- Managing Requirements
- sometimes response time is slow
- we got several white label issue during login
- System support ticket process is not very convenient
Jama review
- Getting Requirements "nailed down." The 'Review Center' is very popular with our users.
- 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.
Thanks Jama!
- Version control
- Traceability
- Managing test protocols
- Test run execution
- Redlining feature
- Trace matrix generation
- Managing versions of a project
- Live traceability
- Cross-functional collaboration and review
- Custom reports
- Obtaining information in a live view from multiple levels upstream or downstream
- Item-type subscription services and alerts on changes
Jama - the King of Kings
- Store and Manage Requirements
- Maintain Revision Histories
- Generate Trace Matricies
- Typesetting Export Documentation
Jama - satisfied
Test Management
Traceability
- Live traceability between requirement and test case
- Real time test execution status
- Review Center
- Export to Word needs extensive formatting. I hope Jama provide better export functionality
- Jama cloud has some security issues. We decided stay on-premises
- Jama cloud does not have a capability to stay on a particular release, and have a frequent releases within a year.
- It would be nice if floating creator license users can select to access as read only or read/write at login time.
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- Quick marking (and solving) question and issues through comments
- Intuitive Review module (peer as well as approval)
- Free Stakeholder licenses help showcase (Jama) Requirements management to involved stakeholders
- No build-in Company Dictionary/Glossary
- No easy-to-use visual traceability (e.g. tree-graph)
A JAMA review from a startup aviation company
- Tagging usernames using @
- Icons are easy to understand
- Requirements are easy to transform between text and requirement
- Easy to navigate amoung different baselines and projects
- In my experience, login takes longer, even when you are logged in it never saves - every time have to login again
- Not intuitive to undo updates - wrongly update wording of a requirement for example
- Not intuitive to recall the history of a specific requirement, all logins that updated and what this specific login has done
First assessment after Jama Connect set up
- Traceability
- Reporting
- Requirements import/export
- User friendly API
- More flexibility in creating customised item types (for example: add possibility to use "step"-like tables in a custom way)
- Even if API is found to be user friendly, testing automation process is not. For example, lack of SW test items that can be automated
Jama: Welcome to the future of RE
- 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.
- The Reuse/Sync feature needs improvement to ensure wide use in the organization.
- Export/Import requirements in a large scale is a humbling experience with the tool, a lot of manual work is needed.
- Filter and Search features are too narrow in the scope and not efficient enough for a large organization.
The Journey from Paper Documents to Jama Connect
- Easy to use and configure
- Super tech support
- Exporting is done well (templates)
- Supports complete product (me, hw, fw, sw, etc.). Not just an agile sw tool
- Upgrading and managing server has been problematic.
- Sharing requirements (or inheriting) is overly complicated for our use.
- Collaboration on requirement development.
- Establishing traceability between elements.
- Review and approval functions of individual elements.
- The user interface can be cumbersome and difficult to perform certain tasks efficiently. In particular, mass editing of items is not easy to do--items generally need to be handled on an individual basis.
- Although individual needs can vary widely, some basic expected functionality is hidden or altogether unavailable.
- Large projects become very difficult to manage.
Jama Connect is one of the best collaboration softwares on the market
- Collaboration.
- Review process.
- Records system.
- The learning curve is steeper than we would have liked.
- Cumbersome at times.
- We have had issues with sharing information.
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- Document Traceability.
- Uploading Documents.
- Exporting Files.
- A search feature needs improvement.
- Creating Filters.
- Integration of other Applications.
Jama Connect an effective requirements and test management tool
- Requirements breakdown.
- Compliance assistance.
- Increase collabration.
- Online resources and guides.
- Web UI can be made intuitive.
Jama Connect - By an MSP Engineer
- Organize tasks and projects in multiple methodologies (agile, etc).
- Allow clear task assignments so teams understand their responsibilities and workload.
- Allow reporting of tasks/workload/etc so the lead/managers/etc can make informed decisions for our team.
- Integration with other tools is always something that can be improved, although Jama does pretty well with it.
- Allowing cross-organization task assignments to be easier. You can do this now but it would be nice to find a way to make it more seamless.
- Highly integrated features (input, review, communicate, approval)
- Very responsive
- Highly configurable to suit business needs
- To enable instruction/explanation if the mouse is stopped for a certain time (2secs); would like to give people preview of what this is about
Not suitable to manage cases like issues experienced in project development for which we use other tools like Jira.
A good experience so far using Jama Connect
- Requirements management
- Traceability
- Test management
- Custom reporting ability on the cloud instance
- Items getting out of synchronisation and needs manual re-indexation
I definitely recommend other organisations to use this tool.
- 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
- 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
I definitely recommend other organisations to use this tool.
- Collaboration between users
- Review module helps to bring users together and give tools for them to collaborate and approve
- Having all resources in one place is great for having an easy-to-use and clean DHF
- Jama Connect is a database of information at it's core. It would be nice to be able to query it like such.
- It would be nice to be able to write queries to build our own custom reports
Jama is a great tool
- is a repository of project documents with change control
- allows full tracking for software development
- allows you to manage everything related to quality tests
- Filtering can be made more convenient to use
Jama is the best!
- I love that Jama components are individualized between engineering requirements, product requirements, Change Requests, Waivers (something we made), and so on. I like seeing all the different items in one project and not having to change windows or tabs.
- The Jama reviews are straightforward and easy to navigate. I like seeing the progress and the electronic signatures. This was an added bonus.
- I wish users could have read access for some projects and write access for others. This is a big struggle for us right now.
- The launch of the Project admin vs Org admin wasnt smooth and I find myself navigating it solo. I wish there was a webinar that goes over it.
- Baselining needs some serious improvement. Jama baselines items after every review, which is frustrating when items in my review are not approved. As a result, I had to create a locking in the item workflows for Baselines (which I created), but I think this makes things complicated. I really only want to baseline items that have unanimous approvals.
Good cloud-based requirement management and evolution solution, with room to improve processes
- Having access to requirements from everywhere in the world.
- Requirement reports for document-centric parts of the development.
- Support for online reviews and discussions.
- Cloud-based installations don't have full access to all reporting tools.
- Online reporting templates are not too customizable.
- Glossaries are not first-class citizens in Jama; it should be possible to link to glossary entries directly from requirements, and vice-versa.
Streamlines a difficult process.
- traceability
- requirements management
- customization of projects
- safety risk management -> make it more automated in terms of filling of metrics.
- More integrations to agile tools beyond JIRA.