WHAT IT IS
Live requirements traceability is the ability for any engineer at any time to see the most up to date and complete upstream and downstream information for any requirement—no matter the stage of systems development or how many siloed tools and teams it spans. This enables the engineering process to be managed through data, and its performance improved in real time.
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Live Traceability of system requirements is required by industry standards to ensure product safety and forms the foundation for digital engineering and model-based systems engineering. It delivers significant productivity improvements, and dramatically reduces the risk of product delays, cost overruns, defects, rework, and recalls resulting in faster time to market.
Do You Know Your Trace Score™?
Now, you can measure your traceability to improve product quality and accelerate time to market.
For those who are not already Jama Connect users, we’ve created this Traceability Diagnostic to provide a quantitative assessment of your current level of Live Traceability and offer recommendations for improvement.
Higher Trace Scores™ = Improved Product Quality and Faster Time to Market
TEST CASE EXECUTION AND DEFECT DETECTION
Top quartile benchmarked outperformed bottom-quartile counterparts by 2.5x
TEST QUANTITY AND TESTS PASSED
Top quartile performers outperformed bottom-quartile counterparts by nearly 2X.
Jama Software® is the first to measure traceability thanks to our clients’ participation in a benchmarking dataset of over 40,000 complex product development projects spanning aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, medical device, semiconductor, space systems, and more.
All of this is made possible by our core product, Jama Connect®, which enables the largest community of engineers using requirements management SaaS (Software as a Service) in the world.
In this Requirements Traceability Benchmark, we examine how traceability is measured, and the business practices that separate top-quartile performers from the rest. This is the first large scale, empirical research to confirm that higher levels of traceability correlate to cycle time and quality improvements.
Supercharge Your Systems Engineering Process to Improve Product Quality and Accelerate Time to Market
Jama Connect enables the delivery of high-quality products, faster, by improving the systems development process through unified requirements management and live requirements traceability across the V model (or any product development process you utilize such as Waterfall, Agile, etc.).
Realize Live Requirements Traceability with Jama Connect
With Jama Connect, teams can implement Live Traceability and measure it to continuously improve end-to-end systems development process performance even through siloed development, test, and risk activities.
Requirements traceability across the entire systems development lifecycle is a core tenant of the systems engineering discipline and underpins industry standards to ensure higher quality, faster cycle times, and less costly rework. Jama Connect is a modern solution for requirements management and traceability. In the platform, teams can:
Provide backward and forward visibility for requirements
Easily conduct an impact analysis
Generate trace reports
Get an overview of how your requirements tie together
Jama Connect Interchange™ (JCI) Enables Live Requirements Traceability
Jama Connect is the ONLY requirements management solution that delivers Live Traceability across integrations with best-of-breed tooling. No changes are required to engineering teams’ process, tools or field values for Jama Connect to track the life of a requirement through all stages of your development lifecycle, in real time.
Better Product Development: Five Tips to Achieve Live Traceability
Products have become smarter. They have more requirements and interdependencies, and there are more of them than ever. As a result, the product development process has become a matter of managing complexity. This paper discusses five tips that will help you produce the kind of traceability that allows teams to manage complexities more effectively and efficiently across the entire product development process.
Higher Trace Scores™ = Improved Product Quality and Faster Time to Market
The Requirements Traceability Alliance addresses the fundamental problem facing systems engineering organizations today – how to comply with Live Traceability across requirements that span siloed engineering disciplines and disparate tools.
Hardware and software complexity is rapidly increasing across all highly regulated industries. Smart organizations are mitigating risk by using modern requirements management (RM) tools to manage product, systems, and software development. Check out our Essential Guide to Requirements Management to up your RM game.
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