October 24, 2008 – 7:45 am
Jama has had a busy, but exciting summer with several new releases of Contour, our product management and requirements management solution - as well as adding many new customers. We’ve fallen behind on announcements, so I wanted to post a quick welcome to some of our recent customers around the world.
Welcome aboard:
Wells Fargo - Named [...]
October 24, 2008 – 6:32 am
I saw that another one of our customers has posted videos of their product in action. Vertical Power creates digital dashboards for aircraft which replaces traditional control sets to display the most critical during each phase of flight. While we don’t have any pilots on staff at Jama, it’s very cool technology.
Here is a brief [...]
October 23, 2008 – 7:06 am
Gizmodo is a great source for new, innovative (and not so innovative - how many ipod docks do we really need?) products. They keep our team up to date on the latest gadgets. Gizmodo just posted on the SMART table, which utilizes the multitouch interface for kids which looks like a pretty cool idea.
It’s always [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 6, 2008 – 10:55 pm
I just read this CNET blog post by Matt Asay appropriately named CIOs sick of enterprise software pricing” which was his commentary on a report Forrester Research recently published on enterprise software pricing & licensing. The short version can be summed up in one quote from the report, “software licensing and pricing continues to [...]
December 26, 2007 – 2:31 pm
Happy holidays everyone!
On behalf of the entire Jama Software family, I’d like to simply say, Thanks. Thanks to our customers. Thanks to our partners. Thanks to everyone who has made an impact on our business in 2007.
It’s been a great year and it’s a wonderful time to celebrate, and we’re just [...]
November 28, 2007 – 11:50 pm
When things are quiet, there’s usually something is going on - and at Jama we’ve been busy polishing and testing Contour 2.0, our next major release. Now that the heavy lifting is done, we can start sharing what’s coming soon (next week).
We’re excited about the next release as not only does it provide a [...]
September 30, 2007 – 9:17 pm
We often are asked about the history of Jama Software so I thought I’d post on how we got started…
A few years ago, after a frustrating session working with one of our clients expensive, cumbersome requirements management tools I heard the team complaining about requirements being locked away available to only a few users, the [...]
September 12, 2007 – 9:47 pm
I was on a sales call last week demonstrating our requirements management solution, Contour, walking through some common scenarios when the client asked if we use our tool internally. We do, and we get this question periodically - do you eat your own dog-food and the like. After I said we did, they asked [...]