Jama - the King of Kings
March 09, 2023
Jama - the King of Kings
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Jama Connect
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
Do you think Jama Connect delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Jama Connect's feature set?
Yes
Did Jama Connect live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Jama Connect go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Jama Connect again?
Yes
- Jama has provided the ability to reuse requirements cross-domain which has helped streamline the requirements development process. This saves money and time.
- Jama has increased the accuracy of our requirements definition by providing requirement templates for common nonfunctional requirements (screening requirements, maintenance and reliability, etc)
The organization is cognizant in the fact that engineering hours are used to generate requirement sets. Promoting the reuse of these requirements sets have direct impact on the manhours required for a particular job. Reusing requirements also benefits the overall quality of the program because similar peer-reviewed requirements and verifications are used between programs.
The canonical low-cost option is Excel which is not feature complete from a requirements development standpoint. However, there is some utility in the fact that the "flat" file can be modified and included in other "flat" documents for deliverable to the customer. The fact that Jama can retain the review history is a useful feature -- particularly if a program will be executed over a several year cycle.
Polarion did not have the outside sales support that Jama Connect has. Polarion seems better suited for an Agile development lifecycle rather than an evergreen repository of requirements, design features, and verifications.
Excel is the low-cost/low-feature requirements management solution. It's limitation to being a flat repository is also it's greatest strength, as the contents can be incorporated into other deliverables quite easily.
DOORS is... DOORS.
Excel is the low-cost/low-feature requirements management solution. It's limitation to being a flat repository is also it's greatest strength, as the contents can be incorporated into other deliverables quite easily.
DOORS is... DOORS.