January 2, 2008 – 2:59 pm
Happy New Year! Welcome back to work. By now, the presents are all unwrapped, the tree is on the curb to be recycled, the holiday cookies have all been eaten, and your wrists are sore from playing Guitar Hero III on your nephew’s new Wii for 2 straight days over the holiday break. You’re back [...]
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 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 [...]
We just released our 1.7 for single users which comes with a free named license and unlimited read only access. It’s only been one day and already we’re getting a huge response. This option is a great way to get started with no hassles. Just download Contour, install and your off and running.
This release is [...]
I thought I’d put together a manifesto of sorts that describes our beliefs and the corresponding features in Contour.
Every Project is unique
By making artifacts completely customizable we’ve enabled companies to define their own process. Therefore Contour can adapt to your process rather than the tool forcing your team to adapt.
The whole team matters
A team is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]