What's new in Contour 3.3.2, updated on December 22, 2011.
Leverage your collective genius. Communicating requirements and getting buy-in with your team has never been easier. Contour's collaborative features help you embrace change throughout the development process. Three new features include:
Subscribe Others :: Keep your team in the loop on important items.
Project managers can subscribe team members to email notifications to keep everyone in sync and alert them to new comments or updates to requirements.Link Items :: Link to items and attachments from other items within Contour.
To provide greater context, you can now create a quick link to reference a requirement from within another requirement. Another common use of this feature is to create links to a glossary of terms.Word Export Enhancements :: Export data into your own custom Word format.
Customize your Word template to fit the format and styles that you need, including the relationships, comments and other data fields from Contour.Take Action: Get the latest version of Contour.
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- Download the Contour 3.3 Installation Guide >
What's new in Contour 3.1.x, updated on August 26, 2011.
Complete your projects with confidence. The latest release of Contour combines the power of collaborative requirements management with new test management capabilities to provide greater visibility and quality assurance throughout the development process. The new features in Contour 3.1 include test management, requirements reuse and customizable project dashboards. See what's new in Contour 3.1 >
Test Management :: Take control of your projects.
QA Managers, ensure test coverage with end-to-end traceability. Create, manage and execute test cases in any number of test plans and see the results within Contour. Watch the video >Requirements Reuse :: Quickly find exactly what you need.
Business Analysts, share a repository of common requirements, use cases or other items, and keep the shared items in sync across projects. Watch video >Project Dashboard :: Manage change in complex projects.
Project Managers, customize and assemble project-level views of Contour activity and data using new reporting widgets on the dashboard. Watch video >Take Action: Get the latest version of Contour.
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What's new in Contour 3.0.x, updated March 2, 2011.
With the new Contour 3, you can manage complex projects according to your own processes -- and keep everyone connected at all times. See what's new in Contour 3.0 >
System Hierarchy :: Take control of your projects.
With enhanced flexibility in the new system hierarchy, your team can now organize data in a way that accurately reflects your complex projects. Watch video >Coverage in Filters :: Quickly find exactly what you need.
With enhanced filters in Contour 3, search across multiple projects and item types to find exactly what you need. Enhanced filters can be used to search on downstream relationships to ensure coverage in your project. Watch video >Multi-Level Traceability :: Manage change in complex projects.
Trace relationships are essential to tracking changes in your project. See how changes to your requirements will impact related items. Watch video >Custom Reports :: Easily create custom specifications.
We've made it easier to create custom reports and specification documents stylized in your Microsoft Word template. Watch video >Review Center :: get buy-in faster with everyone.
The Review Center within Contour provides teams a fast and agile way to review requirements to get buy-in from stakeholders. Watch video >Take Action: Get the latest version of Contour.
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Read the latest Contour documentation:
- Download the Contour 3.0 Release Notes >
- Download the Contour 3.0 Installation Guide >
- Watch the Recording of the Upgrade Webinar >
What's new in Contour 2.9.9, released October 1, 2010.
Improved Grid View Performance :: Reload faster when you change your view.
We've adjusted grids in Contour. As a result, when you change the amount of items viewed on one screen, the page loads faster. We also increased the stability and speed of refresh when you're resizing the browser window.Contour 2.9.9 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.9.8, released September 8, 2010.
Review Center :: get buy-in from stakeholders.
The new Review Center within Contour is the key enhancement we've made to Contour 2.9.8. The Review Center gives teams control to discuss, review, edit and approve requirements with stakeholders. Contour users can send a set of requirements to the Review Center for buy-in from stakeholders and subject matter experts. Within the Review Center, manage change as it occurs and give everyone visibility at key milestones of the planning and development process. Learn more >Read the Contour 2.9.8 documentation:
- Download the Contour 2.9.8 Release Notes >
- Download the Review Center Setup Guide >
- View the Contour User & Installation Guides >
What's new in Contour 2.9.7, released June 14, 2010.
Import :: Author in Word or Excel, manage in Contour.
Prefer to author requirements in Word or Excel? Need to work offline on a requirements spec during a flight? No problem. We've made it easier than ever to import your documents in their true, native formats from Word or Excel into Contour. The import wizard now supports multiple formats including DOC, DOCX, XML, XLS, XLSX and CSV. Also for Word, Contour automatically imports your hierarchy, tables, images, bulleted lists, numbered lists and other styles.Integrations :: Connect your tools, connect your crowd.
In addition to enhancing the JIRA and Enterprise Architect Connectors, we've added a new integration with Atlassian Crowd for user management and single sign-on. Your Contour Admin will love all the time the Crowd integration will save. See Contour Integrations >Enhanced Coverage Report :: Ensure 100% coverage for your requirements.
One of the primary reasons of doing traceability is to sync test cases to requirements for quality assurance. The newly enhanced Coverage Report in Contour will help you identify any gaps in test coverage for your requirements. Sleep easy QA managers, we've got you covered.Excel Reports :: Design your own templates to automate data roundtripping.
Have an Excel report you want to automatically sync with Contour? Now you can. Create your own Excel templates and map the data fields with Contour to get complete data roundtripping. This will allow you to manage requirements in Contour, and then use Excel's graphing or calculation capabilities. Contact Jama Support for Excel template best practices >Contour 2.9.7 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.9.6, released March 26, 2010.
Custom Reporting :: Add as many parameters as you want.
Report designers now have the ability to include as many parameters as they want in their reports, along with customizing the names of the fields so they're intuitive to their fellow Contour users.Administration :: We've made the upgrade process easier.
With this release, the browser cache will automatically be cleared, so your Contour end-users don't have to worry about doing it themselves. This will make the upgrading process easier for Administrators and ensure a seamless user experience for end-users.Contour 2.9.6 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.9.5, released March 4, 2010.
Inline Editing :: Quickly edit items from a single view to save time.
Whenever you have the need to make a quick edit to the name, status or other fields, you can simply doubleclick within the list of items and make several edits inline. This is a helpful feature when doing a group review session and editing a list of items at the same time. Watch the video>Enterprise Architect Integration :: Connect requirements with UML models.
The new Jama Connector for Enterprise Architect provides a seamless integration between Contour and Enterprise Architect, the popular UML modeling tool from Sparx Systems. The Connector allows EA users to import requirements managed in Contour and connect those requirements to design UML models for software design inside Enterprise Architect. Watch the video >Baselines :: The most flexible baselining feature available on the market.
Baselines can now be taken for releases, sets, filters and individual items, providing you incredible flexibility to use baselines for how your team works. Use baselines to flag significant events and run comparison reports to understand the deltas between baselines. Watch the video >Electronic Signatures :: Capture approvals to help with compliance standards.
To help organizations meet compliance standards such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11 in the medical industry, users can add electronic signatures to a baseline, captured with a time and date stamp for audit trail tying the signature to the individual user along with the document.Change Request Enhancements :: Track versions of items within change requests.
Contour provides the ability to manage requirements and other items that are involved in change requests. Each item denotes the version when the change request was introduced and the version of the item that fulfills the change request.Administration :: Enhanced management of users, groups & permissions.
We streamlined the process for creating new users and assigning users to groups. In addition, we added the ability to grant users with project-level admin permissions the right to create their own groups. This enables better project-level administration in large organizations. Watch the video >Web Services API :: Version 2 is now available.
We've updated our Web Services to expand the API to support our new integrations and Contour features. Interesting in building your own integration? See Jama Contour Web Services v2 >Contour 2.9.5 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.9, released January 17, 2010.
Jive Integration :: Welcome to the future of social product development.
Every day employees, customers and partners are actively shaping your product roadmap - sharing ideas, discussing new features, telling you exactly what they like and dislike. But, how are you capitalizing on these valuable insights?With the new Jive integration with Contour, now you can seamlessly push ideas discussed in Jive SBS communities directly into Contour when you're ready to define them as new features and plan future releases. Watch the video >
Enhanced Import :: Include embedded images and charts with ease.
Our newest release of Contour includes additional rich features for the import from Microsoft Word and Excel. For example, with Contour 2.9, now you can import a Word document and Contour will automatically harvest and attach the image files associated with any embedded OLE objects while importing requirements, saving you valuable time.Improved Search :: Lightening fast and sorted for better relevance.
Given that search is an incredibly important feature to our customers, we've enhanced the speed and display of search results. Now, you get a single list sorted by relevance that is returned up to 50% faster. In addition, at the top of each grid users now have the ability to quickly view items of a specific type. So, if all you want to see is Test Cases, it's easier now to see just those items.Custom Reporting :: Better documentation to help you help yourself.
As our customers continue to push the envelope on custom reporting, we've worked with several sophisticated users to help us to enhance the user documentation for best practices and advanced features related to using BIRT and Velocity, the open reporting engines we use within Contour.Contour 2.9 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.8, released Sept. 22, 2009.
Activity Stream :: Everyone connected and in sync at all times.
Keep a real-time pulse on all activities in your projects within a single view. No more noise. No more hunting. No more surprises. Everyone in sync working on what matters most. Watch the video >Active Search :: Find everything you need.
Search beyond the requirements, and also see your relationships, tags and comments related to specific keywords and other filtering criteria using Contour's advanced search, right from within your Activities Stream.Enhanced Import :: Straight from Word.
Import data directly from Microsoft Word documents in the native file format (.docx) and preserve the formatting, headings, and yes even images. It's import made easy.Reading View :: Easy on the eyes.
More of a visual person? Now, you can work within a set, filter or list of results in a dynamic document-like view with the headings, formatting and images all in context. It looks like Word, but works like Contour.Web Services API :: Come on in, we're open.
Want to build your own integrations in and out of Contour? Now you can. We've updated our Web Services API v2. Contour is open for business.Download Contour Web Services API >
Contour 2.8 documentation:
What's new in Contour 2.7, released July 15, 2009.
In this release, we've introduced the Jama Connector for JIRA, an integration between Jama Contour and Atlassian JIRA to keep both product planning and product development in sync at all times. Watch the video >
Also in Contour 2.7, we've enhanced system performance to help with caching and load times. So, when logging into the application, editing items and completing other tasks within Contour, you should experience faster performance. We've also tuned the database indexes to improve database performance for Oracle and SQL Server.
Contour 2.7 documentation:
What would you like to see added to Contour?
We believe the smartest person is everyone, and always appreciate customer feedback. Join us in planning our future releases, by submitting your feature requests in our Jama Support forum.
Practicing what we preach, we log feature requests in our own use of Jama Contour, analyze them and assign them to a release. Our development team then breaks the releases into sprints that are managed at a task level within JIRA. Through our Jama and JIRA integration, we close the loop on status of a release being complete and produce our Release Notes as a report from Contour to communicate new features and bug fixes.
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