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Jama Connect is used in our company as a repository for requirements, product risks and test cases testing the requirements.<br>Jama helps …
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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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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?
Jama Software® is focused on maximizing innovation success in multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Jama Connect® requirements management software is used to minimize the risk of defects, rework, cost overruns, and recalls in fields such as fuel cells, electrification, space, software-defined vehicles, and surgical robotics. Jama Connect enables engineering organizations to manage their development processes by leveraging Live Traceability™ across tools to measurably improve outcomes. The company states its customer base spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics, financial services, and insurance industries.
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:
The #1 problem managing the product development process is identifying risk early across siloed teams and tools.
Jama Connect® is designed to improve product requirement quality, auto-detects product development risk, and measurably increases performance across multi-disciplinary teams developing products, systems, and software — while still allowing the use of their tools of choice. With Jama Connect, teams can identify in real time:
Poorly written requirements with recommended improvementsMissing, 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 Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of Jama Connect are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Jama Connect Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 30% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 70% |
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April 08, 2024
Jama Connect Review
Jama Connect is used in our company as a repository for requirements, product risks and test cases testing the requirements.<br>Jama helps to identify sub requirements that are not linked to any parent requirements. It also helps to generate the verification and validation protocols on the fly after allowing the user to pick the required test cases. Other custom reports are used to generate the requirements documents, risks documents and traceability documents that show the tracing of requirements to their test evidence.
- Identify orphan sub-requirements that are not linked to any parent requirement.
- Identify requirements with no test cases associated.
- Generate custom reports showing tracing between various levels of requirements and tracing of requirements to testing evidence.
- Concurrent revision of requirements, risks and test cases in different projects
- Syncing of deleted entities (like requirements and test cases) from child project to master project has to be done manually. There is no provision of automatic syncing of deleted entities back to master project.
April 01, 2024
Jama Connect Does the Job and is an Invaluable Resource
Jama Connect has been invaluable to our organization as a common place to host our product's specifications (user needs, system and module requirements, system interface), testing (test cases and traceability), as well as risk management documentation. All of our recent projects make use of Jama Connect and is used by the majority of our engineers.
- Traceability from user needs to system requirements, system requirements to system tests and module requirements, module requirements to module tests
- Ability to create and define items and relationships to enable custom workflows
- Versioning, keeping track of changes, and locking items
- Easy way to add comments for each change in the items
- Cross-project linkage and ability to share items between projects
- Easy way to create custom templates
March 31, 2024
Jama for small companies
We use Jama for all related activities regarding requirements and Functional Safety activities.
The tool is used by all development teams with great acceptance level.
The tool is used by all development teams with great acceptance level.
- high level of customization
- ease of use
- organization of requirements
- reviews both internal or with external participants
- some views can be more "user friendly" (ex. trace view does not scale the fields)
- automation using "advanced" scripts especially for creating documentation.
- read access to users with floating licence when the license is not avaiable (same as stakeholder license)
We use Jama Connect as a requrements tool. Before we had not a well working requirements tool. With Jama Connect we had the chance to build it up propper and clean. Also the support was really helpful. The scope is to have a tool to show up requirements and all the related usecases like tests, etc.
- Requirements
- Test Cases
- development support
- buyable Database of main requirements like legal ones
- Downgrade from float creator to Stakeholder
- less coomplexity with creating requirements (if possible)
March 30, 2024
Jama Connect - Excellent Tool for Regulated Products!!
We use Jama Connect to manage our IEC 61508 functional safety requirements that are used to certify our products. Jama Connect had an out of the box solution which allowed us to have tools to support all our artifacts and were able to further exploit its customization to support our companies unique processes. All safety and non safety requirements across every engineering function uses the tool in this use case.
- Intuitive Design
- Excellent Configuration Managment
- Robust and controlled Peer Review tool
- Single page traceability matrix
March 30, 2024
A Top Pick For Requirements Management
We are primarily using Jama Connect as a system of record for our functional and regulatory requirements. Although we do plan to expand its use to include Failure Modes as well as Testing/Validation, in the future.
- Organization of data
- Traceability
- User Friendly UI
- DFMEA functionality could be improved to mimic a classic "Excel template"
March 30, 2024
JAMA Software within CarUX Technology Europe BV.
We are using JAMA Connect to track our requirements coming from Customer Requirements to our System Requirements and gather all Problems and Changes in development of Car Displays with it. We use it to get proof to our customers of following up on our tests and problem reports. This in conjunction with automated testing and integration of these tests with JAMA.
- Tracking of issues related to requirements is easy.
- Storing test results through the API into defined tests
- Ease of use and understanding for end-users
- Moving from Projects to Programs, were a program contains several projects. In the car industry you have a program which contains several projects (left/right side driving, with or without touch etc.) Still the same program.
- Login to simple no 2-factor authentication possible
- Login has no end-date so no warning of expiration-date on password.
We use Jama Connect mainly as Requirements Management Tool but enhancing it also for Riskmanagement (DFMEA) and Testmangement Tool due to the nice tracebility functionality
- Useablity
- Tracebility
- Status and Review Center
- Filtering function could be improved
- Charts could be more configurable
- Visualization of Plan/Milestones where Item types are pinned against
March 27, 2024
Perfect for our needs
We use Jama Connect for model based system engineering to track our design inputs and outputs. It allows us to trace and manage requirements, risk analysis/DFMEAs, and ultimately test cases and V&V.
- Straightforward for standard use
- Romer has been great at helping us when we have questions
- Tracing is super easy
- Management tree keeps things very organized
- Customization of item types is not nearly as robust as other systems like Polarion.
- Polarion also seems to be better at showing upstream and downstream info directly on the item you have selected. Not just what the trace is, but actual content from that trace.
- There could be better information on how to create custom exports for those that don't know how to use mail merge.
March 04, 2024
Jama - Communication and Data Views Positive Review
Jama 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.
February 22, 2024
Great requirements management software.
We use JAMA for requirements management. We required a database to manage the entire requirements lifecycle, from introduction to decommissioning. It is used mainly for security-related requirements. We have a dedicated team to work with the requirements and publish them using the Agile release management process.
- Requirement management.
- Cloud deployment.
- Automated user provisioning.
- Faster response time from support.
- Integrations with Sharepoint.
February 16, 2024
My Review
We use Jama Connect to create, review, and manage relationships among needs, requirements, use conditions, design V&V test docs, and risks for medical device development. Having a centralized system to manage design input is critical and essential in establishing a robust means to conduct traceability and impact analysis.
- Flexibility & adaptability
- Review and feedback management
- Branching and reuse
- Complex to export in desired structure & format
- Better flexibility for test documentation & management
April 13, 2023
Perfect tool for small teams
We use JAMA for projects requirements to allocate the requirements to different departments
- 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 .
March 29, 2023
Jama Connect Requirements Management Review
Currently we use JAMA connect for reviewing requirements and providing traceability for several projects.
- 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
March 27, 2023
Jama review
Jama is used for Requirements Management and Test Plan Management across a few different Business Units in the company I work for. While we've had a fairly long-term relationship with Jama (~8 years), we've only fairly recently adopted it broadly in the organization. Matters involving 'coverage' and 'traceability' have been a long-running concern in our development work and it is on these fronts that we want Jama to improve this for us.
- 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.
March 24, 2023
Thanks Jama!
We use Jama to manage our system architecture. This includes all levels of requirements and those trace down to our testing protocols. Jama helps document and track our versions and changes. It also is our main tool for documentation and execution of the V&V process. In the next two quarters, we are also aiming to integrate our FMEAs into Jama Connect as well.
- Version control
- Traceability
- Managing test protocols
- Test run execution
- Redlining feature
- Trace matrix generation
- Managing versions of a project
Our company uses Jama Connect to manage our risk and requirement deliverables, as well as, other deliverables within our design control process. This product helps us visualize and maintain (within a live database) our coverage of traces from user and customer needs to our design outputs for a project. It also promotes collaboration within our cross-functional teams for instantaneous feedback.
- 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
March 09, 2023
Jama - the King of Kings
Jama Connect is used to generate and derive requirements, tie them to design artifacts, and trace to verification and validation activities. Baselined requirements "modules" are repurposed between programs to save in the requirements development effort.
- Store and Manage Requirements
- Maintain Revision Histories
- Generate Trace Matricies
- Typesetting Export Documentation
March 08, 2023
Jama - satisfied
Requirement Management
Test Management
Traceability
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.
March 07, 2023
Jama Connect2All
Centralised requirements administration to facilitate sector-uniformity
- 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)
February 28, 2023
A JAMA review from a startup aviation company
We are doing the parent requirement cascade and traceability. Moreover, we are working on defining the means of compliance for safety-related requirements.
- 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
February 24, 2023
First assessment after Jama Connect set up
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Requirements management both at SW and system level. At software level: support the automation process for code auto generation, software test procedures auto generation and Interface Control Documents management. Management of test activities through customised items (as explained in GitHub - jamasoftware-ps/Automated-Testing: Sample code illustrating possible approaches to importing automated test results). At system level: management of Assembly Integration and Verification test activities through test run items.
- 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
February 24, 2023
Jama: Welcome to the future of RE
Requirements Engineering with focus on Traceability of the product development documentation throughout the whole V-Model.
- 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.
February 24, 2023
The Journey from Paper Documents to Jama Connect
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Product management (marketing) produces a new product proposal in Word doc. We take the document and pull hard requirements out to create an engineering requirements document, adding any missing requirements from the marketing document. Periodically, we export the Jama Connect requirements back to a word document for project management and engineering to work to. Eventually, requirements are exported as excel so the test team can import them into their test case database.
- 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.
Jama Connect is used across the whole organization for the purposes of requirements management and traceability. Different parts of the organization utilize Jama Connect more heavily or less heavily based on their individual needs. There is also some verification and validation testing that is managed and tracked through the Jama Connect software, but this is much more limited.
- 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.