Enabling a Streamlined and Collaborative Digital Workplace for Government and Public Service Missions

Requirements management in Jama Connect allows innovative DevOps teams to deliver complex applications development and systems modernization to meet intended mission requirements.

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Jama Connect for Teams Supporting Systems and Software in the Public Sector

Jama Connect provides teams a collaborative means to ensure that end-user requirements, contract requirements, and regulatory requirements are consumable by all stakeholders—either government or supplier. With integrated requirements management, collaborative reviews, test management and government risk management, your teams will see improved quality, increased stakeholder alignment, and a reduction in late-stage changes.

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Increase Efficiency and Innovation in Federal and Public Sector Acquisition Programs

“This was a very complex project. There were over 10,000 requirements and test cases exceeded 5,000. We used Jama to manage and collaborate successfully with our client through requirements, design, system, and user acceptance testing.”

Kenneth J. SmithSenior Manager, Deloitte

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Key Benefits

Increasingly complex and evolving government agencies are creating new challenges for systems development teams. Jama Connect’s digital workplace for government public service missions is designed to help teams:

Facilitate effective communication, collaboration, and alignment

Inform decision-making with increased system design understanding and visibility across the engineering process

Reduce risk and barriers to compliance with simplified audit preparation

Simplify CDRL (contract data requirements list) preparation

Key Features

In addition to Jama Connect’s standard requirements, test, and hazard analysis management, you’ll get the following valuable features:

Visualization of the shared system model

Requirements, risk, and verification & validation with a single source of truth

Training and consulting to get your teams up and running quickly

Out-of-the-box templates

Standard frameworks aligned to key industry regulations

Integration with DevOps tools in your ecosystem

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Jama Connect supports systems and software development for large and small public sector entities and their contractor support organizations world-wide.

Features to Ensure Product Quality and Meet Safety-Critical Standards for Risk Management in Government Agencies

Requirements Management

Requirements Management in Jama Connect provides a data-driven requirements architecture for your digital engineering environment, speeding the systems development process, strengthening alignment, and ensuring quality and compliance. Create, derive, review, validate, and verify requirements with a single source of truth. Configuration management is automated with immutable audit trails, and change management is built-in and designed for a streamlined workflow.

• Support complex requirements hierarchies and flowdowns
• Import data from static documents or legacy tools
• Have a single source of truth for clear visibility throughout the development process
• Iterate in real time for informed decision-making and consensus
• Support agile and industry-specified development methodologies
• Reuse validated requirements to quickly replicate features across systems

Traceability

Live Traceability

Easily analyze requirements traces and create traces to any type of data in a single view. Users can be constrained to create traces consistent with a definable relationship model. Trace relationships alert the team when changes are made that impact other items.

• Reduces risk inherent in manual trace link management
• Facilitates end-to-end impact analysis
• Reduces time spent to create trace reports
• Assists in complying with government industry standards
• Ensures what is being delivered matches the stated needs

Reports

Track all changes to information within the government risk and compliance management software with customizable, real-time reporting, and baselining.

• Create document export templates for Word, Excel, CSV, PDF, HTML
• Automate baseline comparison reports
• Create real-time project dashboards for government risk management
• Custom report creation using BIRT and Velocity
• Connections to BI and 3rd party reporting tools supported

Jama Connect Interchange for ReqIF

Transfer requirements and associated metadata between customers and suppliers to create an ongoing exchange of requirements throughout the product development or migrate requirements data from other ReqIF-compliant tools using the Requirements Interchange Format industry standard.

• Ease collaboration across supply chain by using OMG international standard ReqIF
• Use Jama Connect while effectively interfacing with other requirements management tools
• Avoid manual rework through roundtrip requirements over multiple interactions, loss free, and without duplication
• Verify that all requirements are met, regardless of their original source

Reviews & Approvals

Simplify the review and approval process by capturing collaborative feedback from stakeholders, including voting for priority and electronic signatures for approver roles.

• Increase participation in the review process
• Retain an historical record of all decisions made and by whom
• Provide visibility sooner in the review process
• Generate approval-ready content for e-signature faster
• Collaborate more often and capture tacit knowledge

Verification & Validation

Streamlines capture of traces between requirements and V&V data. Ability for continuous feedback loop from V&V activities to ensure the system is meeting the specifications and operational needs of the user.

• Create and organize test plans, test cases, dashboards and reports to manage testing in real-time
• Execute test plans that directly associate with requirements and features
• Capture pass-fail results
• Capture defects and automatically relate to test runs and test cases
• Streamline test results review adjudication
• Generate out-of-the-box test execution reports

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Jama Connect integrates with top-tier solutions

And even more integrations with other leading software — including automated test solutions— to accelerate and facilitate success across the entire product development lifecycle.

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Jama Connect is the Leader in Security, SLAs, High Availability, Touchless Upgrades, and Disaster Recovery

Jama Software is the only vendor in the space that offers the following: SOC 2 Type 2 certified application and data center (others data center only), SLAs above 99% (others at 95% or lower), touchless upgrades (others require your IT to manually update hosted app), high availability SLA (others don’t offer), disaster recovery SLA (others don’t offer).

Suitably validated by TÜV SÜD for safety-related development

Jama Software codes with OWASP best practices

Jama Connect is SOC2 Type 2 certified in both the server and application

Ensures strong privacy management practices

Transport Layer Security (TLS) ensures data transferred is secured and encrypted

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