Now, there's a better way to manage requirements and deliver the right products.
From the outset, organizations need to be able to understand their customers' needs and translate them into product concepts, features and requirements. They need to have an easy way to communicate the high-level goals and the detailed plans for the product to everyone involved. Then, as development kicks off, be able to monitor the team's progress towards achieving these goals.
The development process isn't easy, and it's only growing in complexity.
A product, especially when it involves software, is never completed. There's always an opportunity to improve functionality and the process is compounded by these common challenges:
- Many stakeholders involved in the process
- Customers have difficulty articulating their real needs
- Teams are spread across multiple geographies and time zones
- There's growing competitive pressure to release products faster
- The complexity of technology and software doubles every 2-3 years
- Requirements change frequently throughout the development lifecycle
Overcoming these challenges is where
requirements management software comes in. And, organizations that take a collaborative approach using Contour enjoy greater results.
The entire organization benefits from using Contour.
Gone are the days of siloed departments, over-the-wall product planning and black-box engineering. Contour helps organizations embrace an open, collaborative approach to developing products - whether that means enhancing a physical product, building an internal business system or developing a custom software application. For every development project, there exists a complex set of requirements, a group of customers, other stakeholders and a team that needs to execute fast and efficiently. With Jama Contour, everyone and everything stays connected.
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Product Managers & Executives
- Capture customer insights, prioritize new features and plan releases faster
- Speed time to market and gain greater visibility into what's being built
- Ensure that the product delivers on the business value your customers expect
- Keep the entire team aligned with the strategic goals of your organization
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Business Analysts
- Create an accessible, centralized and consistent place to store all requirements
- Set relationships between requirements, so that any gaps in process flows can be
easily identified
- Decompose high-level business requirements into detailed system requirements
- Produce all the critical reports you need such as baseline comparisons, release plans and specification documents
- Assess the impact of changes to requirements before making them and consider
"what if" scenarios
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Project Managers
- Capture, organize and view all information relating to your projects in one solution
- Organize projects into separate releases and manage information across different
milestones or iteration cycles
- Monitor changes to requirements and track changes across different teams
- Understand instantly who is working on what and when it is due to be completed
- Monitor changes to requirements and instantly notify everyone who is impacted
- Generate updated requirements specification documents or other reports
anytime you need
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Developers & Engineers
- Gain visibility upstream to see and understand the business requirements
and visual models related to the detailed requirements you're working on
- Get an immediate and accurate answer to any question relating to requirements
- Ensure that distributed teams of developers are all working from the same,
up-to-date version of requirements
- Identify possible requirements errors early in the project, so that they can
be corrected before they impact software quality
- Receive prompt notification of any requirements changes that might impact the
tasks that they are working on
- Communicate easily with the project manager, business analysts, testers and all
other people involved in the project, regardless of their location
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QA Managers & Testers
- Speed up the test planning process
- Ensure there is adequate test coverage for all related requirements and defects
- Create and execute test cases from within Contour
- Capture and track all related defects from within Contour
- Integrate Contour with leading defect tracking and test automation solutions
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