Author Archives: Eric

We Have Marketing!

The Jama team continues to grow with the addition of John Simpson who arrived last month to head up our marketing efforts. John most recently was the director of marketing at Omniture and previously worked at WebTrends and Microsoft.
John has been a great addition as he gets our philosophy. His goal is to [...]

REG Developer ALM Interview

David Norfolk of Reg Dev recently interviewed Barry Gilbert from Xeau, our European distributor of Contour.
They discuss the benefits and challenges of ALM, the need for lightweight tools and how MS office is often the default requirements management tool.
The full article is posted at http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/08/11/barry_gilbert_xeau/.

UK Press Release - Contour Launch

Link to the press release from Xeau (Contour distributor in Europe).
http://www.it-analysis.com/business/news_release.php?rel=2455

Top Customer Benefits of Contour

While Contour is relatively new - we just released this year, it’s already gained significant traction in the requirements management space. We’ve heard quite a bit from our customers about the benefits they are seeing. What is especially interesting to us are the benefits customers experience that we didn’t anticipate. It’s [...]

IT Week Article

Phil Muncaster at IT Week wrote a short article on the release of Contour which can be read here.

European Launch Update

I just returned yesterday from our European launch of Contour which overall was a great experience and am a bit jetlagged at the moment. We traveled through 5 countries, met with prospective customers and did a whirlwind press tour in London. Articles are just starting to appear this week and we’ll post links [...]

Jama Welcomes Kevin Thomson

This post is overdue by many months, but we are excited to have Kevin Thomson join us as our  Director of Sales.
Kevin comes to Jama with 12 years of technology sales experience.  Most recently, Kevin spent six years at WebTrends, Inc., a web analytics software provider leading a team of 10.  During that time, Kevin held positions [...]

Jama Headed to Europe

A few of us from Jama will be headed to Europe for the official launch of Contour  in London on April 17th.  We’re excited to be working with our partner, Xeau who brings years of experience in the requirements management space.  More information on Contour in Europe can be found at www.contoureruope.com.
We’ll also be traveling [...]

Impact Analysis

With the release of Contour 1.3 users are able to see immediately the project artifacts – and team members working on those items that may be affected. This is one of the primary benefits or implementing project traceability.
For example, if I am a business analyst and I’m about to make a change to a [...]

Demystifying Traceability

The latest release of Contour, our requirements management tool, incorporates some new features that got me thinking about traceability.
At Jama we use relationship and traceability interchangeably. To us the term “relationship” is much easier to understand than “directional trace” even though it may not be technically correct. (Contour can be set to use whatever [...]