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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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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"
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
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 .
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
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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.
September 10, 2021
Streamline Reviews!
Jama Connect is currently being used by the Sales Department. This software definitely helps track any change in the sales life cycle, letting us know where we should pick up from. It gives us reminders to follow up on any cold leads, so this will ensure that we are doing our best to get back to everyone.
- Document Traceability.
- Uploading Documents.
- Exporting Files.
- A search feature needs improvement.
- Creating Filters.
- Integration of other Applications.
We started to Jama Connect since 2020 in some of the product development projects. Managing requirements (including review and approval) now becomes an easier task mainly due to friendly user interface, web based application which is pretty much like visiting a webpage, it is highly configurable, and all features highly linked and easy to navigate. Productivity is apparently improved! We enjoyed it, and now we are trying to use it to manage FMEA cross the entire organization for all teams.
- 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
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.
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
April 29, 2021
Good cloud-based requirement management and evolution solution, with room to improve processes
Jama Connect is the source of truth for requirements within the SKA Organisation (SKAO). We have used internally within SKAO to communicate between Engineering, Operations, and Scientists, but also to do requirement reviews with external consortia, to get their input. We are also using it for requirement flow-down and traceability, and using several report tools. With the SKAO being a non-profit organization, the main goal is delivering maximum value for the system being designed and later implemented, and having an agile way of dealing with requirements helps us.
- 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.
February 19, 2020
Great Requirements Management Tool!
We use Jama Connect for requirements management. It's used across several business units within R&D to manage requirements from initial creation all the way to generating final design traceability matrices. It has been particularly helpful with managing systems with several subsystems that each have sets of requirements. Rather than waste a significant amount of engineering time, Jama allows us to generate requirement documentation (MRS, PRS, SRS, HRS, V&V Plans, and DTMs) with very little effort.
- The versatile filters in Jama make it easy to look at the requirements you're particularly interested in.
- Bidirectional trace views make it easy to digest how items are traced and identify improperly linked items.
- Jama's search function is difficult to use. It typically finds results that are completely unrelated to what I was searching for.
- It would be nice if projects could have project-specific relationship rules. For instance, if you could base a new project's relationship rules off of a different one, but then customize it for that specific project without having to create a whole new set of relationship rules.
We are using Jama Connect for collecting/gathering different types of requirements (i.e. business requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements). We also used to get approval for those requirements to start working on it. Also, we use this as the golden source for all types of work to then track in JIRA.
- Jama provides flexibility to add customized types of items, e.g. functional requirements, components or projects. Jama is useful for adding any specific attribute in any type of item.
- Jama is useful to track approvals or get approvals for any specific requirement and proceed with it.
- Jama provides a complete history of activities related to any item.
- Jama doesn't provide any functionality or features to add any item type that has user validation in place. i.e. we added Jama_Authors item type and then used the same to create an attribute for the story. That attribute can't have the user validation, or we can not add it in Jama.
- ALM protocol doesn't support URL type attributes in Jama 8. That must be fixed.
- Jama doesn't provide an audit history of administrators on the UI to track the administrative activities.
- Jama says 25,000 active items per project is good to get better performance, but it is less.
May 17, 2019
Detailed and user-friendly
Jama Connect helps our organization gather and organize internal and external requirements for our products and services. We use Jama across all of our teams to reference our ever-changing documentation and requirements. Jama helps provide quality version control and organization.
- Jama provides each member of our team with organized and detailed documentation. We can add all of the information we need in a very structured way that is user-friendly.
- Jama helps our teams know we are looking at the latest and greatest requirements. It is easy to know which document is the latest and easy to see what changes were made to each version.
- Jama allows us to store a mass of information. Previously our teams relied on excel documents to store our requirements. This was very limiting to what we could do and how much data we could store. Jama has helped us upload many detailed requirement documents without lagging.
- Jama could make it easier to toggle between different projects or search between multiple projects.
Jama Connect is used as a core base for requirement gathering of all clients in our Organization. All departments in our whole organization are dependent on Jama Connect when it comes to requirement gatherings of projects from clients as well as vendors. This is an effective portal for any organization that provides multiple services.
- One can access all its client projects with a single set of credentials.
- Advance search option is also available apart from regular search in a project which makes an easy job to filter for items.
- Compare option is available for the versions to compare the updates made on previous requirements.
- Recent activities and chats of other colleagues working on the same project can be seen.
- Most important is the HELP icon that enables you to understand the workflow in Jama Connect.
- Some additional tutorials can be added in the HELP icon that could make the user familiar with all of the functionality of Jama Connect.
- Many icons are too small to find in the first place. Need a visual tutorial to know about their functionality in detail.
May 03, 2019
Jama to the rescue!
We use the tool to house all of our client requirements documentation.
- The table of contents in the tool makes it very easy to navigate and find the information the user is looking for quickly.
- The traceability within the tool is top notch.
- Version control and change compare of the documentation is very easy to use.
- We have to start a review for the client to see the content. I think this is cumbersome and that the client should be able to see approved content at anytime.
- Converting the content into Microsoft Word should be easier for the client to do. Currently, they are not able to do this.
Jama Connect is currently being used by our organization in one main department, but other teams also have access and reference it from time to time. It addresses 3 main needs: to integrate with JIRA which we use internally, to be our external face for our customers and to be our main source for reporting.
- We like the feature where we can put things up for review externally and assign different people to either view or approve them.
- The dashboard is helpful to show the things that we find to be important and it's good that we can show what is important to us.
- I like the tree view to see into different levels as items are broken down. It makes things easier to find and keep organized.
- Overall the user enjoyment could go up just by changing the font! It's not pretty to read, yet it's a lot of words.
- I'd like to see more functionality that can be turned off or turned on in the settings so that I can start basic and build out my instance easier as I need it.
- It would be nice to integrate with JIRA without having to go through TaskTop.
May 03, 2019
My review of Jama Connect
It is used in our department to help organize client requirements for health and welfare.
- Organization of requirements.
- The client review process for approval of requirements.
- Hard to use grammar functions, spell check is off (some words will show as misspelled when they are not), and it is difficult to italicize/bold/underline.
- Jama is not friendly with all browsers. It is extremely slow with Internet Explorer.
- Jama will freeze very frequently and you have to wait for all of your words to type out.
- The search function does not work well, I can barely find anything after I put it in.
April 16, 2019
A good way to maintain requirement: Jama
Capgemini is a very large company with multiple clients and recommends solutions which best fit the need. We recommended Jama Connect to our client - The Judiciary, State of Hawaii as a one-stop hub requirement management solution for their needs. We recommended this because we realized that since the state is modernizing their IT software and infrastructure, it is prudent to have all the requirements, design and testing records in one place for future references. All we want to make sure we had traceability for all the requirements, design and testing artifacts. We found that Jama fulfills that need.
- Requirement Traceability.
- Baselines and Versioning.
- User Profile and Access controls.
- Review Center is a very useful feature.
- Will suit all sizes of organizations to maintain and Manage their projects.
- The reporting feature is very useful.
- The Text Editor is not convenient. Has a learning curve.
- Review Center still needs work as numbering for selected items in a review is still an issue.
- Once a review is published, the new item cannot be introduced into the review. Requires the review to be republished.
- JIRA connector is no longer inbuilt and requires expensive third-party tools from OPS HUB or Tasktop. Maybe cost prohibitive for Small and Medium Enterprises.
- Jama Cloud users cannot customize their own reports. Will need to reach out to Jama help with customization.
- The Search feature within Jama still needs work. Especially within a review.
- It is still unclear what will happen to all our data if we choose to end our contract with Jama. How can we read our data.
- It does not export well into Word documents as the formatting and alignments are always out of sync.
April 11, 2019
Jama works great!
Jama is being used to capture product development for an internal projects/platform. Cantel IT as well as Cantel R&D are using Jama currently. It helps address the traceability aspect and simplicity of product development projects per our new internal design control process per ISO 13485 and 21 CFR 820.
- Allows for integration of existing documents to item types.
- Allows for capturing the review process of requirements and items.
- Overall traceability from start to finish on product development.
- Risk Management function did not come standard so we didn't get to use it.
April 10, 2019
Jama - You get out what you put in
Jama is used for business requirement management and reporting.
- Provides rapid search capabilities.
- Provide a flexible user-defined structure to manage user stories.
- Ability to tag and apply filters.
- Filtering is difficult.
- Difficult Epic-User story structure.
- Integration with ALM is limited.
September 20, 2017
Jama Review for the Curious Mind
Jama 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.