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Jama Review
What do you like best about the product?
The review center, in my opinion, is the star of the Jama product. It promotes collaboration and its simple to use. Informally speaking, I think our end users enjoy the review center process the most. Since implementing Jama, we have seen an increase in customer participation in our internal projects.
Managing the sign-off and consensus on specific requirements was a challenge until we purchased Jama. Requirement management comes in a close second.
Managing the sign-off and consensus on specific requirements was a challenge until we purchased Jama. Requirement management comes in a close second.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product can be overwhelming, even for someone who has used it for several years. Also, the legacy synchronization process was simple and straightforward. We since had to move to OPSHub, which was not as simple.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When we purchased Jama a few years ago we were trying to solve the following challenges:
1.) How do we deliver requirements to our customers in such a way that they stay informed?
2.) How can we maintain project requirements in a centralized location?
3.) How can we ensure the right people have agreed to requirements before transitioning to development?
4.) How can we consistently provide our programmers with the information needed to develop software.
Since we have implemented Jama we have realized the following benefits:
1.) Requirements are no longer gathered in a vacuum amongst business analysts.
2.) Increased customer participation in the requirements review process.
3.) Consistency in the requirements gathering, management, delivery process.
1.) How do we deliver requirements to our customers in such a way that they stay informed?
2.) How can we maintain project requirements in a centralized location?
3.) How can we ensure the right people have agreed to requirements before transitioning to development?
4.) How can we consistently provide our programmers with the information needed to develop software.
Since we have implemented Jama we have realized the following benefits:
1.) Requirements are no longer gathered in a vacuum amongst business analysts.
2.) Increased customer participation in the requirements review process.
3.) Consistency in the requirements gathering, management, delivery process.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I have used other requirement management products in the past, and by far, this is the best one overall.
We came for a tool we gain a comprehensive solution with a strong partnership.
What do you like best about the product?
It is a very well thought and engineered solution with some very good "out of the box" regulatory reports. JAMA Connect is very intuitive and ease to use by our teams.
Besides the tool solution, I also really appreciate the JAMA Software team that understand our core business and helps us along the way from a technical stand point.
Finally, the JAMA community web site as well as the regular webinars offered are extermely value-add additional resources.
Besides the tool solution, I also really appreciate the JAMA Software team that understand our core business and helps us along the way from a technical stand point.
Finally, the JAMA community web site as well as the regular webinars offered are extermely value-add additional resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
The limited dashboarding option for now is gap. Some alternative solutions exist but I will appreciate a comprehensive out-of-the-box set of dashboards to help our Dev teams and Leadership.
A connected Risk module with the Project module will laso be very beneficial.
A huge quick win will also be to provide conditional options to adjust the item's fields based on context. (example: if "x" in a check box than show those additional fields ...).
A connected Risk module with the Project module will laso be very beneficial.
A huge quick win will also be to provide conditional options to adjust the item's fields based on context. (example: if "x" in a check box than show those additional fields ...).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To provide a Digital DHF for our SaMD solutions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Release after release new features and improvement appears to make JAMA Connect even better, JAMA Software as a company knows what they are talking about and can help you expedite your digital transformation.
I've used jama for over 5 years and it's never once failed me
What do you like best about the product?
Traceability features
Test case execution traceability
Test case execution traceability
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the UI seems complex at first...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Saving resource and staff time in defining requirements and traceability regarding product systems engineering
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Plan your workflows early.
Learn all the features and benefits upfront.
Learn all the features and benefits upfront.
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 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.
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