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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/4h/SF/FHT3NGI7452O.PNGJama 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 - Communication and Data Views Positive Review2019-02-25T20:35:03.635ZJama connect is being used for new projects in our organization and in particular, larger more complicated projects.
Business issues to resolve:- requirement traceability- cross timezone communication- stakeholder input and acknowledgement- process improvement and requirement ownership,Requirement traceability and relationship flow. There are many different ways to show your coverage, flow of requirements, and where they are in a larger perspective of the project.
Review communication through the review engine is particularly well done.
Ease of using the system - the ergonomics is excellent. My users have an easy time getting used to working with otherwise complicated structures and organization.
The ability to pull information from different angles is excellent. The filters are very useful and other products don't compete here like Visure, Doors, etc...,The initial dashboard is very limited in functionality and views. The bar charts and pie charts are useful but quite cumbersome given you have to specify your filters beforehand. This is very important in my opinion as this is the top level summary that 90% of your management will only look at.
Coverage explorer - only 150 items at one time. This should be expand to all...
Verification and Validation need improvement on being able to package and coordinate test runs, cycles, and platform variations of these items. This is a bit cumbersome and difficult for beginner users to get used to.
It is very annoying and counterproductive that the users have to directly click "logout" to open up licenses. Admins can't boot people out of the system actively to fix if someone has to go home. You have to wait for 2hrs + for their license to expire.
Create/Edit licenses not defaulting to collaborator licenses is also very annoying for admins especially during very large concept stage input/reading efforts into Jama.,9,Positive - ROI - This is a hard estimate, but let's say we save at least 70% of email back and forth over 3 timezones using Jama in a project.
Negative Impact on ROI - too early to tell really since we are running Jama for a year only.,We expected to achieve and I believe have achieved:- Improved organization and content quality of requirements- Better requirement communication across organizations/departments that have difficult times to communicate.- Connect customer requirements/use cases to the technical derivation or decomposition- Provide a better home for verification and validation test cases with traceability to the sources- In general, a large improvement of a visual and detailed overview of traceability of requirements from regulatory requirements all the way down to risk items.,I have been an admin with Top Team Analyst as well as have played/practiced a bit with Visure and Doors.
Jama is considerably better than Visure and Doors on the collaboration, reviews and traceability than Visure and Doors.
Top Team analyst is a closer competitor that has better strengths in layout and form than Jama when writing detailed solutions and work packages, but Jama is better in collaboration and reviews for sure.,,JIRA SoftwareStephen Czerniej P.Eng, PMP®JAMA Champion2019-02-11T17:30:58.605ZJAMA Administrations - I am Working as a JAMA Consultant and recommend JAMA for various Project Management, Traceability and Test Management tools across Organizations. I provide a complete demo on JAMA usage comparing with other tools and recommend JAMA.,Managing around 150 + Projects on the LifeScience Industry - Teams are very much involved completely on the JAMA Testing / Traceability and the reports - We recently implemented Velocity reports on our Regulated Instances and Customers are very happy on the Output.
We have Integrated with Major Project Management application JIRA - Using the Tasktop Integration Hub and the sync works well.
We also Integaretd with HP ALM with JAMA using the JIH and the complete Bsuiness Processes / BPAC, Configurational Items are used by Many Projects.
Discovery of Customer current and desired future state Product Delivery approach and processes.,Great Question -JAMA Itself is a great tool but coming to the Testing Plan and Test Cycles it needs further improvements on the complete Testing cycle Managements
Customers from different environment always compare the tools with other Products - Compare to HP ALM the testing functionality needs to be much enhanced in JAMA,10,Good,Jama Software's tools let users track relationships between requirements, use cases, test cases, defects and other related items to maintain compliance. With a centralized dashboard the software's test management features compile and categorize test cases and plans, logging connection defects in real time so that users can monitor multiple stages and results simultaneously. Jama's Integration Hub, which is powered by Tasktop, connects with other tools and platforms like JIRA.Enterprise Reuse retains up to 85% of requirements and automatically updated reports, visible to teams across an organization; alternatively, teams can choose to branch from the catalog as needed. Coverage Explorer visually represents product coverage for instance, Coverage Explorer compiles test results to communicate pass/fail percentages and ratios, highlighting gaps in test coverage and flagging potentially impacted test cases,Mentioned already,JIRA Software, Jira Service Desk and Confluent Cloud,JIRA Software, Jira Service Desk, Jama AnalyzeMalayamaan K.P.Jama 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 Connects idea to reality2019-02-15T20:09:14.604ZWe use Jama Connect for managing requirements for our most critical products. It allows us to create, review and approve requirements with full versioning and traceability through to delivery all in one place. It is used across several departments in the company, which provides effective collaboration when requirements change frequently.,Requirements management.
Requirements workflow.
Integration with other tools such as Atlassian JIRA and HP ALM.,The product is very flexible but this can mean significant configuration is required to be productive.
Product roadmapping features are limited.,9,Jama has helped us deliver mission-critical projects on time and on budget while keeping track of scope with our stakeholders.
Saving of 2 weeks of documentation submission because the requirements can be auto-generated in Jama.,Jama helps us achieve greater agility and reduces time to market. Our teams enjoy collaborating on the tool and it is becoming a one-stop shop for understanding our product's feature state at any given time.,It is the best tool we have seen to manage requirements, streamline collaboration, and review while providing traceability across our development lifecycle. The flow of requirements from idea through to Delivery is seamlessly integrated with all our other tools, reducing manual error and maintenance of requirements.,JIRA Software, Aha! and Roadmunk,JIRA Software, Micro Focus ALMVerified User
Windows, Linux, Mac
Jama Connect
20 Ratings
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