Jama Connect Help

Item-based product development — In Jama Connect, items serve as the fundamental construct for defining and verifying products and supporting your product development lifecycle. Each item defines a discrete requirement, test case, test run, and more. Trace, Versioning, status, and collaboration are captured for each item, which ensures granular control, transparency, and efficiency throughout the product development lifecycle.

Projects and tree approach — Items are organized in Jama Connect into projects, which might represent a product line, a product, or a product variant, depending on your process. Within a project, items are organized in a hierarchical tree called Explorer, and grouped by their type, enabling easy navigation and item type specific data capture.

Traceability — Traceability is at the core of product definition and verification processes. In Jama Connect, a Traceability Information Model defines required relationships for consistent monitoring and reporting on project status through Trace. Filters and reports enable live analysis to ensure coverage from high-level business requirements through system and subsystem requirements and verification.

Reviews — Reviews provide a structured process for ensuring that requirements meet stakeholder expectations, regulatory requirements, and market needs. They enable teams to evaluate requirements, test cases, and plans collaboratively, ensuring alignment before development, which reduces rework and risks. Features include a wizard for easy review setup and electronic signatures for coordinated approval and signoff.

Verification — The test capabilities of Jama Connect support the Validation and Verification processes, helping define tests that ensure all requirements are met. Trace views provide full coverage of requirements, reduce risk, and highlight suspect links to identify the impact of changes on your verification plan. Test Plans allow multiple test runs with complete traceability back to requirements.

Exporting documents — Jama Connect lets you create documents to share with your customers, quality teams, and auditors. You can easily create documents using our standard export to Word and Excel or by creating your own custom templates.

Baselines — A baseline is a snapshot of your project at a point in time. The current version of each selected item and their relationships are forever associated with that baseline. Baselines can be restored, reused, and exported at any time, which allows teams to work with and provide visibility into historical data.

Categories — The Categories feature helps you manage variants of a Jama Connect product, such as size, color, material, or style. Once you define the product variants, you can create the categories and apply them to items.

Change management — Jama Connect enables impact analysis to assess the full scope of a change before it’s applied, identifying affected requirements and tests in advance. Collaborative review capabilities ensure that changes are evaluated and agreed upon, and once approved, versions and baselines provide complete tracking at both the item and project level for transparency and auditing.

Reuse and synchronization — Reuse allows you to start new projects from existing work, easily enabling content libraries and product variants. Jama Connect maintains a connection between reused content, called synchronization, which allows your teams to monitor for differences between synced items and optionally push updates between items. In this way, changes made in a library of requirements or in a specific variant can be assessed for applicability in another project and pushed to that project if needed.

Administration — The administrator controls the product development process as well as users' access to the data. You can start with a template modeled after best practices, then tailor the process to fit your environment.

REST API — REST API allows your team to integrate and extend the capabilities of Jama Connect. Typical use cases include using automated test scripts to integrate test results; extracting specific data for analysis; and automating manual batch tasks.