Jama Connect

What differentiates Jama Connect from other similar products?

So far I have only tried JAMA Connect but I can definitely say that I am satisfied with the features that JAMA Connect provides so far. Ease of traceability, coverage analysis, easy to modify and add item types helps a lot with different types of customer based projects. Review center is very customizable as well where the downstream and upstream items are easily available for review. This really helps during the verification review by the customer where each test case is verifying a requirement.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspects of JAMA Connect are the version control, history, and relationship rules (which ultimately helps me define the traceability). The ease of creating different relationship rules considering the type of projects I am involved in makes it very personalized and helps prevent tackiness.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The lack of attachments integration during review is somewhat a discomfort at the moment. But I am sure people at JAMA Connect are working on that solution.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Trying out the all the features on a creator license is the best way to explore every feature. If convincing the colleagues at your organization, let them try out at creators as well.

What differentiates Jama Connect from other similar products?

Easier to customize and use.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Traceability and customizations. Its also very easy to keep an overview of all artifacts (needs, requirements, architecture, specifications) on the sidebar.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Safety Risk Management. Needs more automation such as autofilling risk scores.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Anyone that wants to spin up a requirements management system quickly without much overhead should consider this product.

What differentiates Jama Connect from other similar products?

Software like this is usually bloated and at times integrated with other key products that may not have a need for the company administering them. You can piece out Jama and use it to your organization' content. That is one thing that is key for us. The navigability is also important. You are not bottlenecked to use certain workflows. It's open ended and that is very important.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of use and customization. Without a doubt, there are a lot of "features" to this tool. Too much simplicity in these tools means not enough power. Jama, however, takes it to the next level of offering so much feature tightly woven into a product that does not seem big but it is. And we love that!

What do you dislike most about this product?

1. Some search and replace functions as well as other administrative level tools for high volume assets would be a plus. 2. Session tokens seem to either expire or die out so if you have multiple sessions opened, some changes won't apply sometimes or Save button get's locked out. 3. Sometimes some assets are locked when they should not be. This may be related to #2. It's also the nature of having a web SAAS but those are some kinks we've seen. 4. Better implementation of a "power tool" for querying searches across different mediums (such as requirements and test cases) etc

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

1. Assess your current organizations' needs and do some predictive analysis on all areas of your app design and consider what you need before jumping into any tool even this one. 2. Consider the volume you will have vs. what the cost of the tool is 3. Consider customization needs as well as needs for plugging in to other technologies such as ALM, Automation, Build Control, etc.