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Typically, Product companies share two business goals: Build the right product for their customers and get them to market quickly. I was honored to share the (virtual) stage with analyst Frank Gillett from Forrester Research to talk about some of the massive opportunities for connected devices to solve real-world problems. I mentioned being inspired by […]
Jama is committed to Portland and believes in the importance of giving back to the communities where we live, work and play. A year ago Jama launched the Paid Volunteer Time Program, granting employees 16 hours per year to use volunteering at the organizations of their choice. Since the launch of the program in March 2015, […]
We are excited to announce our December 2015 hosted Jama release, making collaboration even easier for product teams with new ways to share visual information. We’ve also added new tools to ensure your Jama system is operating at optimal performance for your growing teams. Better visualization tools to enhance collaboration When you’re having asynchronous conversations […]
Today we’re announcing some exciting new additions to the Jama Software leadership team. Chris Cook of New Relic joins the board of directors. Ian Miller, most recently President of Workday Asia Pacific, has been named the Jama VP of Worldwide Sales. Cook served as President and Chief Operating Officer New Relic, a SaaS web application […]
Connecting your requirements to downstream test plans and test cases is crucial to end-to-end traceability. Jama makes it easy to trace the relationships between your requirements and their stakeholders, test cases and test results to ensure that you have full and automated coverage. As part of our developer community support we’ve just released a script that utilizes our REST API to […]
And calculates the costs and losses caused by inferior RM “Forty to fifty percent.” That’s the percentage of companies that manage the creation, iteration, testing and launch of new products with MS Office, Google Docs and other all-purpose documentation tools, according to research from Gartner’s “Market Guide for Software Requirements Definition and Management Solutions.” The result? […]
As a System Engineer managing requirements do you ever feel like you’re playing a game of Topple? First, you start with a board that is relatively balanced, but depending on where you put the pieces it can quickly get off kilter. As the game evolves you are adding more and more pieces to the board. […]
On July 12, 2015 we celebrated eight years of Jama. The Jama team (and families!) came together to celebrate eight years of creativity and collaboration. A few snapshots from our day of celebration… We started off the day with breakfast on the patio from Fried Egg Love. My Bartender and Sterling Catering & Cookies helped […]
In just about every conversation we have with product managers we hear different versions of the same story: We must say no to feature requests that don’t map to top priorities, and we have to do it about 10 times a day. Product managers get requests from multiple sources: the sales team, key customers, the competition, […]
Knowing when to get an MVP to market for customer feedback—and when to keep researching and testing—is a skill product managers learn with experience. Still, even the most experienced product teams often struggle to stay in touch with their customers. Sure, we read as much as we can about our changing market, and we have our […]