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Jama Connect Help

Welcome to Jama Connect

Jama Connect is a centralized web application for managing the development of new products. It handles all aspects of product development, including requirements, reviews, and testing. Jama Connect also records test results and manages risk while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Read through this section to learn how Jama Connect can change the way you work and enhance your product development process. We want to answer all your "How do I get started?" questions.

Powerful features to transform your development process

Use our award-winning requirements management software and industry leading Live Traceability solution for efficient and optimized product development. With Jama Connect, you can measure and improve development success — to stay ahead in your industry.

Requirements and Risk Management

  • Integrate risk analysis within your development process for clarity about associated requirements and mitigations.

  • Track data and make decisions, promoting cross-functional collaboration with contributors from different functions and geographic locations.

Review Management

  • Connect with other users to quickly see who authored, made an edit, commented, or was mentioned on an item.

  • Gather, monitor, and incorporate feedback.

  • Stream discussions to bring new users and stakeholders into current conversations.

Test Management

  • Create and organize test plans, test cases, dashboards, and reports.

  • View and run test cases and instantly log connected defects when test fail.

  • Execute, open, or assign tests that relate to specific requirements and features.

  • Build custom reports that show auditors the connections between regulations, requirements, and tests.

Live Traceability

  • Understand the impact of a change.

  • View test coverage and assure quality.

  • Save time finding gaps in coverage.

  • Easily navigate upstream and downstream relationships.

  • Filter and export views specific to your product.

For details, see Getting to know Jama Connect features.

Self-hosted users

Content that is specific to self-hosted environments, like installation and upgrade information, is available in your Jama Connect environment within your instance/application. From Jama Connect, select Help to open the Jama Connect User Guide for the version you are running.

The Help link in the Jama Connect header is highlighted.

For version-specific PDFs, see the Jama Support Knowledge Base.