Staying Audit-Ready with Live Compliance
See how checklists, frameworks, and live dashboards help teams assess compliance throughout the design life cycle.
Maintaining compliance with standards and regulations requires current, connected data throughout product development. With Live Compliance in Jama Connect, engineering teams can incorporate compliance assessments into their review process, identify gaps earlier, and reduce the risk of unexpected findings and rework at design reviews.
In this demo, Patrick Knowles, Manager of Solutions and Consulting for Aerospace and Defense at Jama Software, shows how checklists, frameworks, and dashboards work together to support ongoing compliance efforts. Using an eVTOL project, he walks through how teams can assess individual requirements directly in Review Center, combine checklists into a compliance framework, and monitor results across reviews and projects.
This workflow gives teams live visibility into assessment progress, unanswered questions, and noncompliant items, helping them pinpoint issues and navigate directly to the work that needs attention.
Video Transcript
Hello and welcome. My name is Patrick Knowles. Today, I want to talk to you about an exciting new feature set in Jama Connect that allows users to assess their data for compliance with regulations and audit requirements.
This new feature is called Live Compliance. I want to talk about why it matters first, then walk through how you can implement it in your own Jama Connect today.
This feature set matters because teams using Jama Connect work in heavily regulated environments where they must demonstrate compliance with a number of standards and regulations throughout the design life cycle of their projects.
Benefits of Real-Time Compliance
This data can’t become stale and should never be disconnected. At Jama Software, we’ve developed a way for you to keep that data live and at your fingertips through checklists, frameworks, and dashboards paired with Review Center.
This means findings are identified in real time instead of later in the life cycle. It helps teams avoid surprises at design reviews and reduce the substantial rework they might otherwise encounter by actively pursuing Live Compliance.
Let’s jump into Jama Connect.
Applying Checklists in Review Center
In Jama Connect, you can see the dashboard for my eVTOL project. On the left, I’ve highlighted my Aircraft Requirement Checklist set. If I open it, you’ll see a number of questions used within my checklist.
I’ll show you how this is set up in just a moment, but first, I want to show you how it’s applied.
If we jump into a review, we can see the list of questions on the right-hand side—the same questions we were just looking at in the project. I’ve gone ahead and clicked “Comply” on most of them and “Noncomply” on a number of others so we can look at the results in the dashboard in a moment.
The checklist is available directly in Review Center through this small button on each item. This allows the user who is approving or rejecting a requirement or item to also participate in the compliance effort on the right-hand side.
So, how do we get here, and what output can we view in a dashboard?
Building Compliance Checklists
We got here by creating the checklist we saw in the project and ensuring that we have the right responses, applicable item types, and other settings defined.
If I open this dropdown in Reviews, you’ll see Checklists, Frameworks, and Dashboards.
Creating Compliance Frameworks
If we jump to Frameworks, we’ll see a combination of different checklists working together to create an overarching framework for compliance with a specific use case.
In this example, the use case is an airborne system: my eVTOL.
Live Compliance Dashboard Analytics
With these checklists combined, I can go to a dashboard and see live data across all the reviews using those checklists for a specific group of projects or an individual project.
As you can see here, I’ve selected my framework and my eVTOL project. Those selections determine the data shown.
You can see that 52% of my work has been marked, while 48% is unanswered, which means we haven’t finished the compliance effort. We can also see that 1% of the work is noncompliant, and we need to look into it.
Remediating Noncompliant Items
We can see a whole host of items here—five pages of them—that need to be reviewed. We can also see the reviews being used, the checklists, and the items that are not compliant.
I can jump directly to those items and make fixes to address the noncompliant results in the rollup.
Implementation and Support Resources
That, in a nutshell, is a quick dive into what we’re calling Live Compliance here at Jama Software.
This is a brand-new feature that we’re excited to roll out to teams, and it’s available now. You can set these up in your own environment. If you need additional help, reach out to your customer success manager or consultant for support.
