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A Place of Contradictions Shabnam Calls Home
September 23, 2016 /1 Comment/in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Ania Osinska-BulloffThe sand is warm and the sun makes it perfect swimsuit weather. Three women, a girl, and a man are enjoying a lovely day on the coast: fashionable sunglasses, skimpy swimwear, big smiles. Californians? You’d think, except it’s an old photograph taken at the Caspian Sea. Next slide. A young woman walks on the same beach. […]
PDX Tech Crawlers Connecting with Jamanians
September 9, 2016 in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Lauren EspinosaIt was an amazing night to meet new people and network with other technology enthusiast in a relaxed environment. Thank you to all the PDX Tech Crawlers that made the trek over to Jama last night. As one of Jama Engineering managers, Tom Healy, put it: “I’m a proud Jamanian this morning: Last night was […]
What are our Customers Doing with REST API
September 1, 2016 in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Jama SoftwareJama rolled out our REST API earlier this year, and we couldn’t wait to see what our customers would do with it. We’ve also had opportunities to work with organizations on good ways to leverage the API, including an exciting and unique engagement with Portland State University (PSU) computer science students in their Capstone Program. We’ve had […]
If You Love Jeopardy, You Will Love This Story
August 26, 2016 in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Jama SoftwareIt’s easy to get lost in work. We end up spending so much of our time on our work, in the building, and with our co-workers, that it really begins to become a part of our actual life. This is why it is so important to also highlight the activities that people do outside of […]
Self-Selecting Agile Teams
August 24, 2016 in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Jama SoftwareAs Jama grew, our Engineering department began to change overnight. Teams were outputting consistent velocities, we had upped our abilities technically on how we measured areas such as performance and quality, we began 8-week planning cycles, we doubled our Engineering team and we had a strong roadmap to follow but for some reason it didn’t […]
A Brief History of PDX Women in Tech: From Starbucks to our First $1
August 19, 2016 in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Megan BigelowPDX Women in Tech has humble beginnings — very humble, in fact. In late 2011, after a thrilling experience at the Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference in Portland, I felt sad. I was sad because all the smart as hell women went home to their respective cities. I would probably never hear Sheryl Sandberg speak in […]
Our Journey to ISO 26262
August 10, 2016 in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Derwyn HarrisYou may have noticed our recent certification announcement related to ISO 26262, but what you may not know is the behind the scenes story of how it all went down. This was no easy walk in the park. Our journey to being certified by TÜV SÜD as “fit for purpose” started with the simple realization […]
Jama Celebrates 9th Birthday
July 22, 2016 in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Jama SoftwareOn July 8, 2016 the employees, husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends and children of Jama gathered to celebrate another great year at the annual Jama Birthday Party. (Check out the 8th, 7th, 6th and 5th celebrations!) A summer rain pushed us inside, but our soon-to-be-sub-leased 1st floor made the perfect open space for the bouncy house, […]
How Jama Uses Chartio for Jama Business Intelligence & Data Visualization
July 21, 2016 in Jama Software Company and Community News /by Jama SoftwareChartio is a tool for centralizing, normalizing and visualizing business data. It connects to Salesforce and a variety of databases, and it allows you to upload simple spreadsheets. Its data pipeline has enormous power for transforming the data to get it in just the right form you need. Chartio’s dashboarding capabilities, with layout and drill-down, […]