Product requirements & application lifecycle management tool
4.4/5 (10 reviews)Overall experience using Jama Connect has been really good. I would definitely recommend it to my colleagues.
Pros
Jama provides a very user-friendly interface with a lot of intuitive functionality.
Provides requirement traceability and also versioning.
The functionality to apply filters has been implemented better than most of its competitors in the market.
Cons
The text editor can be a little difficult for a first time user and can be made more intuitive.
Filtering can be made more convenient to use.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 8/10
Good product but loading and navigation issues
Pros
1. I have been using Jama for over one and half years. The good thing about JAMA is all the requirements are systematically placed in JAMA. Its search option is good. By typing any keyword, all the related requirements get listed below.
2. I liked the requirement review facility in Jama. All the comments are well preserved. By going through them, I can ensure whether any comments are still open. It helps in tracking the closure of all questions/comments raised during requirement review.
3. Notification service of JAMA is quite good
Cons
1. I felt that loading and navigation of Jama needs to be improved. Sometimes the delay is quite noticeable.
2. Though the homepage contains all important information, little improvement in look and feel of GUI can make it more attractive.
3. There should be auto login in Jama using windows login password like other software I use. Every time I have to manually give windows login/password to enter Jama
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 7/10
Pros
Web-based and much cheaper option than DOORS.
Learning curve is really flat.
No need for professional IT engineers to maintain the system
Cons
Data export an import extremely not convenient. Now only support export to excel. After excel export, the sheet is not the same format as seen in Jama and it takes me long time to reformat the sheet in excel.
3rd party tools integration is not ideal, like the support to EA, Github,...
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 8/10
We purchased Jama Contour Requirements Management software recently and I have to say the software is everything we wanted it to be and more. The major selling point was the ability to store and create your own field level data and we have taken advantage of that in spades. This alone has saved us hundreds to thousands of dollars. The level of customization provided by this software is far beyond anything we have seen. We use it on a daily basis and we are not moving away from this software. It helps drive us to our mission of "Excellence" in IT. Thank you Jama!
Pros
Ease of installation, Ease of use, Ease of customization. Works as advertised and excellent customer support.
Cons
You need a pretty decent server that can handle the memory requirements.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 10/10
A concise, centralized repository for defining new product marketing and customer requirements, administered with rules-based workflow. There is flexibility to maintain requirements per time-based, dollarized roadmap. The downstream EARS/SEARS brings entire product development team into a tight-knit collaborative environment where SW links and dependencies manage the evolution of requirements and downstream changes
Pros
Collaborative medium; Collective decision making and decision records; Information archive & presentation; Ease of use
Cons
Training was cumbersome and took longer than was anticipated; Managing reviews and policing workflow
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 9/10
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