Jama Connect® Features in Five: Requirements Management for Seamless Product Delivery
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Jama Connect Features in Five: Requirements Management for Seamless Product Delivery
Learn how you can supercharge your systems development process! In this blog series, we’re pulling back the curtains to give you a look at a few of Jama Connect’s powerful features… in under five minutes.
In this Features in Five video, Michelle Solis, Solutions Architect at Jama Software, explores how Jama Connect offers an effective solution for delivering software, products, and services. We will examine how key features, such as importing, the traceability information model, and the review center, can help streamline processes, reduce rework, and minimize scope creep.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Michelle Solis: Hello. I’m Michelle Solis, a Solutions Architect at Jama Software. In this video, we’ll explore how Jama Connect provides an effective solution for delivering software, products, and services. We’ll dive into how key features like importing, the traceability information model, and the review center can help streamline processes, reduce rework, and minimize scope creep.
Many teams gather requirements in Word or Excel while tracking development in separate tools, creating a lack of traceability between stakeholder needs and engineering work. This disconnect can lead to missed input, rework, and defects when requirements change. Without an integrated system, engineering may build outdated requirements, and QA may test against incomplete information, leading to costly delays.
Jama Connect bridges this gap by providing structured traceability and an efficient review process. Customers start by importing requirements from Word, Excel, or other tools. Once in Jama Connect, users can conduct structured reviews with stakeholders, enforce signatures, and track version changes. This ensures seamless traceability as requirements evolve, keeping teams aligned and reducing errors.
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Solis: Let’s jump into the tool and see how Jama Connect provides a solution for the delivery use case. We’ll start by looking at the traceability information model for an example project. Here, our requirements, like the previous slide detailed, start as an intake questionnaire filled out in Word. Those questions and responses are brought into Jama and then decomposed into customer requirements. From there, they further break down into functional and nonfunctional requirements with potential development tasks or software configurations.
Those tasks are tested and defects are logged against those tests. This traceability model allows users to see the downstream impacts of changes and trace defects up to their customer requirement. To the left, we have our exploratory that holds and organizes the requirements. Our customer component opens up to those customer intake questions and customer requirements. The customer intake questions are brought in using our Word import tool.
On the right hand of our screen, we see an example of what that intake questionnaire might look like. Now, we can see those questions and responses once they’ve been imported. Let’s click on one of these items and see one method of collaboration. In the comment stream section, we can pose questions for discussions, ask for a decision, or raise an issue. Our stakeholders, in response, can answer those decisions, answer questions, or provide resolutions.
In this example, I asked for clarification on this specific question. Now, instead of having to look through emails and other channels of communication, Jama Connect can be my source of truth. Once we finalize these questions and answers, we can break these down into customer requirements, and then we can send off our customer requirements for a review. I’ll right-click on my customer requirements and send them out for review. Our review wizard will be initiated, and I’ll define the name. I have different options for settings. One setting I’ll leave on is requiring an electronic signature from my approvers. I’ll designate my participants. In this case, it’s Michael Scott, my stakeholder, and myself. And then, in the final screen, it’ll show me what that invitation looks like when it gets sent out to my stakeholders.
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Solis: While this review is initiating, I’m going to switch and sign in to Michael Scott so we can see what it looks like from the stakeholders perspective. Now let’s jump into a review we just initiated as a stakeholder. When a reviewer logs in, they are brought into a review screen with all of the reviews they are actively participating in. This makes the review process easy to jump into, and your non Jama users will be able to ramp up into the reviews quickly.
In the review, participants can reject and approve items line by line. They can leave comments and highlight specific text when they want to specify spelling errors or specific details. Once the review is complete, we’ll approve and sign off. From here, we can export our review into Word or PDF with our signatures attached.
Jama Connect streamlines product delivery by enhancing traceability, collaboration, and review processes, ensuring that teams remain aligned and projects stay on task. From capturing stakeholder requirements to managing approvals and exporting finalized documentation, Jama Connect provides a structured yet flexible approach to a successful product development.
Thank you for watching this demonstration of how Jama Connect features solve for the delivery use case. If you would like to learn more about how Jama Connect can optimize your product development processes, please visit our website at jamasoftware.com. If you’re already a Jama Connect customer and would like more information, please contact your customer success manager or Jama software consultant. Thank you.
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Solutions Architect at Jama Software
Dynamic, highly technical, hands-on professional with a wealth of knowledge and experience designing and launching new solutions, effectively managing products/projects, and delivering outstanding technical support to team members and other stakeholders. Utilize a structured approach to problem-solving to quickly eliminate emerging issues and prevent recurrence with robust corrective actions. Forge and strengthen relationships through frequent, transparent lines of communication.
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