Monthly Archives: May 2008

Customer Needs – The tip of the iceberg.

May 22, 2008 – 10:12 am

Here at Jama we take a pretty open approach to the development of Contour, our collaborative requirements management / project management software and incorporate customer feedback, input from our advisors as well as research and planning we perform internally. We often invite smart people to have lunch with us to give us feedback on [...]

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Product Failure

May 22, 2008 – 7:51 am

I was searching around reading about top causes of product failure and found this blog post about product failure at Google.  Well… not actually a real product failure -but it made me laugh.  Have a read.
One interesting presentation I found was “Assuming doesn’t feed the Bulldog“. There are some good stats [...]

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Traceability - Just Make it Simple.

May 15, 2008 – 2:25 pm

You hear a lot about “traceability’ in context to requirements management. It’s one of the primary benefits and reasons for buying a requirements management solution.
As the products we’re all building become more sophisticated as stand-alone software applications or embedded software within physical products, it’s common for development projects to consist of hundreds or thousands [...]

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Making a Strong Case for Requirements Management

May 15, 2008 – 12:36 pm

Is Requirements Management a smart investment right now? What’s the expected ROI for an RM tool? Does your executive team view RM as a “must have” or a “nice to have” solution?
I find myself having conversations on these topics with customers almost every day so I thought I’d write about the analysis we do to [...]

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