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Jama, from the company of the same name in Portland, Oregon, is an application lifecycle management platform.https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/e9/Eg/GZ3US1SZVFGF.JPEGJama SoftwareJama for product requirements2018-12-13T22:38:21.822ZJama has been chosen by our product marketing group to fill their need for a tool where they can describe the product requirements(from the Executive Summary down to detailed product specifications), have a common place for related files, collaborative edits on documents and for supporting the review process. The planning features like the project notion and scheduling the releases are used as well.,Product requirements: a nice and easy way of writing requirements, keeping them classified and organized
Requirements review: the information to review is displayed intuitively in the User Interface and adding your review comments is enabled for every line item in an individual paragraph
Administration: for a cloud application the administrative features are extensive with an acceptable level of details,User roles and permissions: I would like to use the company's Active Directory groups when granting permissions for projects. We have it integrated with Okta, however, I can only add people to Jama one by one.
Out of the box reporting - you can never have enough reporting or custom reporting capabilities. However. Jama has just several and only on demand. Automatic scheduling of reports is not there.
For more complex requirements you may find it a little difficult to use Jama.
Price may be an issue for many. It is a cost per user and it is more expensive that other cloud tools we use, with a bigger ROI than Jama.,7,For our marketing team, it made a difference having it all in one place, improving the team's collaboration on requirements reviews.
We are not sure yet if the cost for this software is worth paying for since we are not using it at its full capabilities; we will reevaluate at renewal.
We were thinking of adopting this tool also for software requirements and test plans, but we realized that it is not suitable for an Agile development methodology.,Atlassian ConfluenceCristian BodnarasecJama Simplifies My Projects2018-12-12T21:30:34.800ZWe use Jama to manage requirements for all company projects, small or large. It's managed out of our project management office, but all project members have access to it. However, it's really maintained by business analysts and project managers.,Jama is easy to use. Didn't require any training. All plug and play. Easy to enter and maintain requirements.
Search ability is great - easy to find requirements and provide traceability.
I love the email notifications - I get notified once a requirement is updated, or when I'm mentioned by name. Makes it easy to create a task list of my "to do's" for my projects.,Get the enterprise license - this will allow multiple users to access Jama congruently. If not, it's not a true requirements collaboration tool.
Great for a Microsoft environment, but if you're not using Office tools such as Word or Excel, that could be problematic for reporting. Also requires some reformatting once downloaded into Excel.,8,Jama has made requirements management and collaboration much easier. Way better than SharePoint, which is what we previously used.
Allows us to collaborate without additional emails and meetings. I get notifications when I'm mentioned specifically, or when requirements are added/updated. Very convenient.,JIRA Software and CollabNet TeamForge,HubSpot, Justinmind, Skype for Business (formerly Lync)Richard CraneJama Review2018-03-27T19:29:43.650ZJama is the primary requirement tool used by the BSA team. We're moving over from Agile Central and are in the process of implementing it for all projects. QAs and other departments have just started to use the tool.,Coverage Explorer gives a great view on the complete flow from requirements to tests and defects.
Linking between requirements and test assets and defects are intuitive.
Release management is pretty good.,We are trying to integrate Jama with SoapUI and haven't found an easy way of handling it.
While integrating with Agile central, "one to many" and "many to one" mapping worked. But unable to map "many to many" folders/assets.
Support resources available are less.,6,Positive - worked well for waterfall projects.
Negative - Still trying to see how it fits for Agile projects.,CA Agile Central (formerly Rally), JIRA Software and HP Application Lifecycle Management,CA Agile Central (formerly Rally), HP Application Lifecycle Management, JIRA SoftwareVerified UserJama Review for the Curious Mind2017-09-20T22:28:45.398ZJama started being used as a part of a larger department of 25 people which also served as the "test bed" and "pilot" for cross-company as well as enterprise-wide use (we currently are a company of about 800 that is a part of a bigger corporation consisting of thousands of staff). The business problem it addresses is that it provides far better ability to enter, track, manage and report on software requirements than our previous application. It also solves the age old problem of costly maintenance and customization of tools such as this.,Jama has the keen ability to provide hierarchy for requirements in a collapsible tree style management view allowing for far better reach of information then many of the other system we have used.
Jama has the ability to create filters, tags and custom searches in order to better disseminate large scale requirements in order to be able to get from building to testing in less time.
Jama possesses the ability to create and link between test assets and have a very intelligible view of managing the bridge between both worlds. It also allows for creation and management of test runs for different iterations of the test cycle; whether it is a dry run, full regression or partial corner case execution.
Jama has great ability to create custom output from Excel files to Word which can filter and mine the data from requirements to test assets and present them in different print view for consumption of different audiences and stakeholders in different parts of the teams.,Jama can have better overall SDLC management components especially bridging between different ALM tools.
Jama is not an ALM tool but can have some better customization of defect reporting mechanisms as well as test run approach.
Jama's ability to break out steps into sub-children in a test plan hierarchy can use a bit of improvement to make it more modular.,9,Jama has brought some new life to our requirements management and how we see the inter-connectivity of functional requirements with System Requirement Specifications which are more UI centric.
Jama has brought much better dashboards and reporting for everything it supports from printing test plans, requirements and specifications as well as test runs.
Jama has had some challenge in usability as far as training and discovering features we did not know about. There seems to be a different way to do one thing and that is sometimes hard to hone in on how the best approach is. It is more open ended then many other tools like this. Training we have had but it seems that needs to be a repeated period requirement.,IBM Rational DOORS, JIRA Software, HP Quality Center and HP Application Lifecycle Management,IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational RequisitePro, HP Application Lifecycle Management, HP UFT, HP Performance Center, HP LoadRunner, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Visual Studio Team SystemFred SookiasianGot a very complex product? Adopt Jama, it's best for your requirements management!2018-01-09T17:02:59.603ZWe are basically integration solution provider and have an active partnership with Jama. We help their customers integrate Jama with other systems such as JIRA, Salesforce, Git, Jenkins, TFS, PTC Integrity etc. So, Jama's enterprise-level customers can now synchronize data across systems using the OpsHub Integration Manager, our flagship solution.
A possible use case can be integrating Requirements in Jama to Epics in JIRA. So, a product manager creates a requirement in Jama, the JIRA users get an epic created automatically. Any changes made in either of requirement or epic gets synchronized bi-directionally to both the systems. This maintains traceability and data consistency.,Flexibility to create a custom requirement management ecosystem.
I love the fact that a Jama user can choose from a large variety of existing entities, but at the same time, also create new components and sort and manage them effectively. One can link different entities, bundle them and segregate them.
Traceability
Jama focuses a lot on maintaining traceability. And anyone who uses Jama will notice this. For even a delta change in the requirement or entity, it locks in the time stamp and the user. This proves to be a very useful feature in industries where data traceability is critical. Jama is thus best suited for requirement management in industries like aerospace, defense, and healthcare. One can always go back and get the whole audit trail.
The Trace View and Reading View
In a complex scenario, where one has to manage hundreds of requirements, Jama provides the best way to analyze them. The new features like Trace View and Reading View (which were absent in earlier versions) make requirements management more intuitive. Users can create a custom filter and view as well, this is great.,I think these guys should really work on the User Interface. The UI is intuitive but can be more user-friendly. For an example, color coding the entities according to Priority, Status would be awesome. JIRA does a great job in doing this. Something similar can be done in Jama.
Though Jama claims to be a Product Development Tool, it is actually very good at just managing requirements. All the other important aspects have been ignored in Jama (like test suite, bug/defect tracking). This is a reason that other tools like JIRA, Git, HP QC have to be deployed complimentary to Jama. The integration of these tools becomes very important and there are only a few reliable integration solutions available in the market.,9,All the innovation-centric companies are adopting Jama. They have big customers like SpaceX, NASA, Fairchild Semiconductor to name a few. They also have very small companies and startups as their customers. One can conclude that the ROI is surely positive and significant.,PTC Integrity, IBM Rational DOORS and IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation,JIRA Software, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Visual Studio Team SystemVerified User
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