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Build Great Products
using Jama Contour:

• Improve quality 2x
• Innovate faster 6x
• Delight your customers
• Increase visibility
• Keep everyone in sync
• Avoid scope creep

“Contour has provided us with an agile and streamlined process for capturing requirements, use cases and research in a collaborative fashion.”

Ryan Palmer,

User Centered Design Group, Large Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

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, others stakeholders and a team that needs to execute fast and efficiently. With Jama Contour, everyone and everything stays connected.

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 to the strategic goals of your organization

"Contour has given us unprecedented insight into our development process." Quentin Vandermerwe, Product Management, Bycast

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

"Contour has definitely increased the efficiency of the business analyst role." Cherine Day, Business Analyst, Stratos Global

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 whose impacted
• Generate updated requirements specification documents or other reports anytime you need

"With Contour, we now have thousands of requirements online in an environment that facilitates collaboration with everyone. Our quality will increase 10x using Contour." Kenton Hensley, Cornell University & Kuali.org

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

"We use Contour to track which requirements are in the current Sprint as well as a relative priority for when we want new features developed." Kevin DeVries, Development Manager, Vertical Power

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

"We use Contour to provide a clear workflow of our requirements, understand impacts when requirements change and ensure proper test coverage." Christopher Moustier, QA Manager, Wyplay

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