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Announcing Jama Contour v2.4: Building great software products just got a little easier.

Each year in the U.S. alone, over $30 billion is wasted on failed software development projects.  And, the major causes for why these projects fail consistently tie back to requirements management.
Jama Software’s mission is to eliminate that failure by enabling companies to take a more collaborative, customer-driven approach to product planning and development.
The latest release [...]

Social networking is not innovation management.

There’s been much attention recently given to social networking and collaboration as it applies to the business process of innovation. It’s fueled by a growing crop of companies that are adopting a more open innovation model and inviting their communities of customers, partners and employees to participate in the process of sharing ideas, discussing [...]

Jama Software named Finalist for OEN Awards.

The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network has selected Jama Software as one of four finalists for the 15th Annual 2008 OEN Tom Holce Awards for Entrepreneurship in the Development Category.
Finalists and award winners will be recognized during the event at the Oregon Convention Center on September 18, 2008. This year’s event theme “Rogues and Renegades” honors the [...]

Requirements management makes the grade.

How in sync is the academic world with your industry? Is the next generation of project management and product development directors well versed with the tools of the trade?
As a vendor, we feel it’s important to do our part to support universities and educational institutions that are preparing students to be successful [...]

Product Failure

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 [...]

Real World - Contour

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 [...]

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/.

Team Jama just got a little bit bigger!

I would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest team member - Mike Alligood. Mike will be responsible for developing global channel relationships as well a strategic partnerships for Jama. Mike comes to us most recently from Centennial Software where he was the Director of Business Development. Prior to that, Mike [...]

Contour Version 1.6 out the door!

Customization
Contour was designed to be flexible because every project is different in some way. Whether your project is Agile based or a combination of many methodologies it can be very difficult to find a tool that fits nicely into your environment. Through Contour’s customization capabilities you can track Requirements, Use Cases, Test Cases or create [...]

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