Enterprise-grade solution to product development challenges.
The Jama Product Delivery Platform taps into the great ideas and talents of everyone across your organization invested in building and delivering great products. Product delivery is bigger than product development. It begins much earlier in the product lifecycle, at the concept phase, and carries through all the way to market launch. Jama brings all stakeholders into the process with a structured collaboration environment that empowers everyone with instant and comprehensive insight.
With Jama’s collaboration capabilities sitting on top of a robust requirements and test management solution, your organization can unlock innovation and transform the way you conceive, build and launch great products.
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Product VPs
Product VPs need to translate a company’s vision into an overall portfolio strategy, oversee the specific product roadmaps within their portfolio and ensure alignment across the organization. Their teams drive projects forward while trying to keep development and the rest of the business aligned. They expect product managers to address issues, make decisions and clear roadblocks; however, they need confidence that escalations are promptly brought to their attention. With Jama, product executives provide their teams across the portfolio a platform that connects the people and conversations required to build great products.
Product Managers
Product Managers and Business Analysts need to translate high-level strategic objectives into tactical implementation, provide visibility when things change and distill the input of involved stakeholders into actionable directives. The way they manage requirements should be as dynamic as the agile processes their development teams are adopting. Most of all, they need to quickly and effectively communicate the product strategy, vision, status, roadblocks and critical needs up and out across the business. With Jama, product managers can execute on their product plans and get the right products out the door on time.
Businesspeople
Businesspeople need knowledge of the products coming out so they can execute sales and marketing campaigns, plan go-to-market strategies and allocate resources to support rollout. Businesspeople don’t want to get bogged down learning new tools or encounter friction logging into a new environment, but they do want to be responsive to the development team throughout the process. With Jama, businesspeople stay in their native workflows (email, mobile devices, on-the-go) and stay in sync on the pressing issues and key decisions they need to do their jobs.
Engineers and QA Teams
Engineers and QA Teams need clarity on what they need to build and test to deliver on functional requirements. They need to understand the problem and have visibility into the status of upstream and downstream dependencies. With Jama, developers and QA teams are closer to the end customer and the business decisions driving the product, so they can react quickly to changes, iterate and ensure traceability and rock-solid quality.
Don’t Work the Old Way.
Product development is often managed through a combination of unwieldy office documents, legacy point-solution tools and email threads. This doesn’t work in today’s changing enterprise, with distributed teams constantly iterating and the growing complexity of today’s hardware, software and embedded code bases requiring thousands of requirements.
Your workforce doesn’t want to work the old way. Don’t make them. Jama mimics the workflows they’re used to, with simple interfaces and mobile accessibility.
Capture buy-in and approvals faster.
Get requirements right at the outset.
Forget static spec documents emailed around for feedback and approval. Lose the errors resulting from multiple and outdated versions. Save time and gain context to the full discussions around requirements. Connect distributed and agile teams with stakeholders to review, approve and achieve agreement on requirements inline. With Jama Review Center, review participants join a real-time discussion, propose edits, flag issues, vote for prioritized features, and ultimately approve and electronically sign-off on requirements for an official record of the agreed-upon scope.
Ensure product quality.
Execute test plans and track defects back to requirements.
Everyone on your team cares about quality; however, they need to balance the tension between quality and speed. When your team engages in real-time conversations about the impact and prioritization of defects, they can quickly make adjustments to ensure timely delivery without sacrificing quality. With Jama’s test center, your QA teams execute test plans that directly associate with requirements and features. Coverage explorer visually represents the impact on features of outstanding defects. With Jama, the product you define upfront is what your team delivers.
Avoid missed functionality.
Make better decisions by understanding their impact.
Products today are more complex, with growing requirements and multiple interdependencies. You want your teams in sync so they can connect the dots. How does one potential change affect other projects? Meanwhile, your businesspeople are having meetings, casual conversations, brainstorm sessions and doodles that spark aha moments about products you’re developing. How do you manage scope and reprioritize to accommodate? With traceability and impact analysis, on-the-fly adjustments are a snap. Jama Capture imports ad-hoc diagrams and whiteboard sessions and connects them with conversations about projects. With Jama, good ideas stick around.
Work faster.
Save critical time with requirements reuse.
When you can reuse up to 85% of your requirements, your next product gets to market faster, key to out-innovating your competition. With a centrally managed library of reusable product details that automatically update product teams across the enterprise, requirements reuse keeps requirements synchronized and in context, alongside associated changes, comments, reference items, decisions and other related information. With Jama, reusable assets are continually enhanced to improve product quality over time.
Bring businesspeople into the process.
People across the enterprise are invested in product success.
Enterprise collaboration brings everyone across your organization in to define and launch successful new products. Your sales and marketing teams need to build their go-to-market campaigns; your finance teams need to assign SKUs and pricing; and your executives need to tie product to the corporate vision. Development teams want to keep all these people in the loop without slowing down their work. The Collaboration Stream in Jama gives all stakeholders access to the hundreds of the activities and actions in the context of the whole product. They can tap into the decisions and insights of others. They can easily see the common threads between what they are doing at an individual or departmental level. With Jama, your organization operates as a focused engine, fueled by empowered and informed employees.
Act on decisions faster.
Distributed teams around the globe can’t stop iterating just because you are asleep.
Major product decisions used to be settled at Very Big Important Meetings, at which hefty documents and spreadsheets featured prominently. Today, product delivery happens around the clock and across the globe. Continuous iteration means everyone needs to be reachable for quick decision-making and to react to developments up and downstream. The Jama Product Delivery Platform is designed for the modern, connected workforce. With Jama, users get personalized, actionable insight in real time, whether they are on a mobile device, across the globe or sitting next to each other.
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| Requirements Reuse | Social | Mobile |