Jama Connect (Private Offer Only)
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Senior Systems Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Customized Relationship Rules, Ease of tracing requirements, Review center is very helpful for internal reviews as well as customer reviews. Requirements coverage and traceability.
Ease of creating the export templates give us a lot of game in making them personalized.
Comment feature on the requirements and test cases really helps Stakeholder with the visibility and participation.
Ease of creating the export templates give us a lot of game in making them personalized.
Comment feature on the requirements and test cases really helps Stakeholder with the visibility and participation.
What do you dislike about the product?
If the review center can provide a way to attach the attachments, it will save us a lot of time and prevent juggling between the tasks.
Currently, only upstream and downstream items are visible, which is very useful.
We recently had a customer review on requirements and their verification, which helped a lot.
Currently, only upstream and downstream items are visible, which is very useful.
We recently had a customer review on requirements and their verification, which helped a lot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Requirements Traceability, Direct Coverage visibility for requirements.
All the test cases are in one place and organized by test plans.
Ease of creating tests for primary and secondary witnesses which allows us to run tests by two separate independent parties.
Requirements Review by a large group of stakeholders instead of having to work on excel sheets. This helps in keeping a track on versions and releases.
All the test cases are in one place and organized by test plans.
Ease of creating tests for primary and secondary witnesses which allows us to run tests by two separate independent parties.
Requirements Review by a large group of stakeholders instead of having to work on excel sheets. This helps in keeping a track on versions and releases.
Efficiency, Visibility, Traceability, Peace of Mind
What do you like best about the product?
I like the live traceability and that the updates are bidirectional
I like that when defects are fixed (or updated) in Jira the changes are automatically captured in Jama
I like that there is no double-work, no copy-pasting from Jama to Jira or from Jira to Jama
I like that when defects are fixed (or updated) in Jira the changes are automatically captured in Jama
I like that there is no double-work, no copy-pasting from Jama to Jira or from Jira to Jama
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial set-up seems cumbersome but I wouldn't say I "dislike" it since it has to happen only once (and is supported by Jama).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are associates who use one only of the tools. For example, if primarily using Jira, there is no need to learn Jama because there is no need to update both tools, nor is there any overhead of sending an email or notifying others that something that has changed in Jira needs to be reflected in Jama. Once changes are made in Jira, Jama is automatically updated.
Simple to use and covers most of our needs in one tool.
What do you like best about the product?
Connection of requirements and tests. Openess to create own items simple
What do you dislike about the product?
Would need a way to connect tested sw hard to TCs instead of free text.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Traceability between requirements from standards to tests.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Jama is a good tool. But work with the organization to get a full buy-in.
High flexibility, powerful and intuitive tools and interface, and nice technical support.
What do you like best about the product?
Very flexible to our process, and team madurity and size.
Operations with Requirements, and team collaboration are consistent.
Available features are solution oriented; i.e. meeting our needs.
Great for collaborating with external partners, at different levels of the project (edition, review, validation of REQ), thanks to a clever user permission management menu.
Operations with Requirements, and team collaboration are consistent.
Available features are solution oriented; i.e. meeting our needs.
Great for collaborating with external partners, at different levels of the project (edition, review, validation of REQ), thanks to a clever user permission management menu.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features not fully documented.
Bad support for keyboard shortcuts.
Moving Requirements around gets slow with volume.
Bad support for keyboard shortcuts.
Moving Requirements around gets slow with volume.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Jama to create public tenders with more than 1000 Requirements.
Jama has helped us in the traceability of the REQ: from creation/edition stage, to verification and validation.
Good for accessing from multiple accounts, reviewing them with support from external partners.
Re-use of REQ among several projects, and ease to handle sync between them, has been great.
Also good tools to export all REQ into office documents, to output part of the results.
As we evolved our development process, so did Jama.
Jama has helped us in the traceability of the REQ: from creation/edition stage, to verification and validation.
Good for accessing from multiple accounts, reviewing them with support from external partners.
Re-use of REQ among several projects, and ease to handle sync between them, has been great.
Also good tools to export all REQ into office documents, to output part of the results.
As we evolved our development process, so did Jama.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A good tool that adapts to your needs, more than you adapting to the tool.
All features at hand, with intuitive enough menus to customize Jama behavior.
All features at hand, with intuitive enough menus to customize Jama behavior.
Jama Connect is an application that easily connect people in engineering and managing requirements.
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that it is easy to share information and execute processes even when the team is not co-located (geographically dispersed). Changes are properly tracked and people notified. It is also easy to organize review and monitor the review progress.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are not very negative aspects. Perhaps, the visibility and handling of requirements traceability (hierarchy) can be improved, but most likely it is just personal taste and not a real issue. Also the tailoring process of exported Word documents is not very user friendly for complicated document. Nevertheless, this is not easy to make it user friendly and the tool is powerful as it is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My organization involves several scientists from 31 countries and more than 200 institutes. Jama Connect gets remote and distributed people informed and involved on processes related to requirements.
Jama is a robust application and very easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
The application is very easy to use and very intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
All our legacy documents are in word and it was a pain for us to format the documents per Jama needs for seamless import
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All our test case execution were manual and on paper, with Jama all that went electronic and saves us lot of paper and ink to print
One of the best requirements tools out there
What do you like best about the product?
Intelligently weaved in collaboration features that are well thought out and can save a lot of time and effort (when properly set up and used) together with a fast responsive, intuitive user interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
According to our IT specialists, Jama is not easy to be hosted on premises, but with a ceratin skill set available (linux and docker technology) this might be a different case. Another thing is, that in some cases, it took Jama a long time to fix long known bugs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We save a lot of time and effort in development and product management by using the well made collaboration functionalities, especially in these current COVID times, when actors cannot always meet in person. We also save time by making use of the item reuse capabilities of Jama. With Jama we always know who made changes to an item, when the changes were made and sometimes even why. That helps us tracking down and understanding those changes. The ability to link pieces of information together in a relatively easy way, help us to achieve full test coverage, checking for impacts of changes upfront and often times understand a requirement's rationale. Jama also provides good filter and search functions and especially the weaved in collaboration functions constantly prove to be useful. It is also worth mentioning that Jama provides powerful customization options, so we were able to customize Jama to our needs and way of working. All the useful Jama features of course work best when Jama's functionalities are implemented in the way of work wisely.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you consider self hosting, check if your IT meets the skill set requirements for hosting Jama on premises upfront and if that's not the case, go for Jama Software's cloud option. Also check how Jama needs to be customized and set up to be tailored to your companys needs. Don't expect the pure installation of Jama to magically fix all your problems, but invest some time to thoroughly think about how you want your employees to use it as they go through your product development process. Plan in time for trainings and have at least one employee ready that can answer your company specific user questions and also support your product development teams in getting the most out of this great tool.
Jama Connect Review - Requirements, Work Package, and Test Management
What do you like best about the product?
Upsides:
- very easy to use with minimal training
- The entire system is very web 2.0/UX friendly making it very easy to communicate and send messages to your team members. A lot of time was obviously put into making Jama not feel like Doors.
- excellent traceability and view management
- administration of the system is very easy and intuitive
- large flexibility in the system to adapt to your style (v-model, waterfall, scrum) and departments
- Review center makes it easy for global companies to do reviews on complex topics
- Integrated intelligence and mapping from requirements or any item to test management
- very helpful staff and consultants quick to answer questions and give support
- Great community of other power users that continuously try to improve the system
- very easy to use with minimal training
- The entire system is very web 2.0/UX friendly making it very easy to communicate and send messages to your team members. A lot of time was obviously put into making Jama not feel like Doors.
- excellent traceability and view management
- administration of the system is very easy and intuitive
- large flexibility in the system to adapt to your style (v-model, waterfall, scrum) and departments
- Review center makes it easy for global companies to do reviews on complex topics
- Integrated intelligence and mapping from requirements or any item to test management
- very helpful staff and consultants quick to answer questions and give support
- Great community of other power users that continuously try to improve the system
What do you dislike about the product?
Downsides:
- Test variant or configuration management is still limited in platform management, however there will be updates coming in the next while to address (2021)
- Dashboard views are limited out of the box. You have to create filters and be reasonably knowledgeable in your structure and items to create the views you want.
- Logging out is the only way to free up licenses - this causes problems if you only have limited licenses - example test managers need full licenses to create test cases. Your available license
- Pre-created reports can take some time to generate, can cause some minor confusion if users expect reports to be generated immediately
- Test variant or configuration management is still limited in platform management, however there will be updates coming in the next while to address (2021)
- Dashboard views are limited out of the box. You have to create filters and be reasonably knowledgeable in your structure and items to create the views you want.
- Logging out is the only way to free up licenses - this causes problems if you only have limited licenses - example test managers need full licenses to create test cases. Your available license
- Pre-created reports can take some time to generate, can cause some minor confusion if users expect reports to be generated immediately
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problems Solved:
- Global communication issues
- Test management and requirement traceability
- Audit traceability
- Review management and process on artifacts
- Requirement writing and discipline
- Configuration management
- Release and baseline of requirements and project artifacts
- Requirement quality
Realized Benefits:
- We now have a better single source of truth for requirements and structure for projects
- Test management is more streamlined and traceable to the requirements and variations within projects
- Requirements are baselined and stored in a controlled manner
- Formal reviews have more participation and active feedback due to less personal pressure - suitable for extroverts and ambiverts to provide feedback given the platform.
- More user accountability in quality and completeness in projects.
- Global communication issues
- Test management and requirement traceability
- Audit traceability
- Review management and process on artifacts
- Requirement writing and discipline
- Configuration management
- Release and baseline of requirements and project artifacts
- Requirement quality
Realized Benefits:
- We now have a better single source of truth for requirements and structure for projects
- Test management is more streamlined and traceable to the requirements and variations within projects
- Requirements are baselined and stored in a controlled manner
- Formal reviews have more participation and active feedback due to less personal pressure - suitable for extroverts and ambiverts to provide feedback given the platform.
- More user accountability in quality and completeness in projects.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend Jama to most requirement users that need excellent communication and traceability measures. The system is geared for easy use and creating the relationships and coverage you need to go from customer requirements down to test runs and defects. Jama is not a project management tool, but people certainly do tailor it to make it work. I would rather use Jama as the requirement, epic, user story, and test management software than the implementation tracking Project management tool. However, there are easy ways to integrate between different systems like Jama and JIRA or MF ALM if you need to. High recommendations to all to use this system if you need a simple or very powerful requirements management software that does pretty good test management and excels on global communication.
Director
What do you like best about the product?
I have used the JAMA connect for requirement management and test management. Main advantage that JAMA stands out for: Traceability between Requirement and test cases, approval flow, dashboard and easy reporting
What do you dislike about the product?
connecting to external tools without plugin as we need to pay additional cost for plugins
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Entire requirement traceability, Test case execution & recording and Defect recording and overall reporting.
allows me to have more control and monitoring depending on what the client wants
What do you like best about the product?
The biggest pro for me turns out to be its interface since it provides a very friendly and intuitive space which positively impacts the use and performance of the application, the fact that it can have a better order in terms of managing the information of The projects where I work also turns out to be a great point in their favor, especially in the requirements documentation part, since it allows me to have greater control and monitoring depending on what the client wants, its ease of use and Installation is something surprising, their customer service team is very attentive when it comes to solving any questions or concerns that may arise while using this application, for which I personally give them 5 stars in every way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning is somewhat long due to all the functions it has, however it is not so exaggerated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped me a lot in the project planning part, especially in the entire subject of requirements engineering, since thanks to Jama Connect I can have all the guidelines, requirements and requirements of my clients in a simple, easy and practice, which guarantees that the project does respond to all the needs raised by the client in the first instance.
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