Jama Connect Help

Project approach and tree structure — Jama Connect is made up of projects and uses a tree structure to easily organize content and view the content of each project. The Jama Connect features are highly configurable, so you can customize to fit your unique development process.

Item-based product development — Jama Connect is a database driven product development platform. Your team's methodology directly influences how you set up and configure your Jama Connect environment with different item types.

Traceability — Traceability shows the relationship between items that depend upon and define each other. It allows you to trace product definition from high-level requirements all the way through to final tests.

Reviews — Reviews help ensure that a new project meets stakeholder, market, and compliance requirements. Features include a wizard for easy review setup and electronic signatures for coordinated approval and signoff.

Testing — Jama Connect test capabilities guide your teams through the testing process, so you can validate and verify your products and systems.

Baselines — A baseline is a snapshot of your project at a point in time. The current version of each selected item, their state, and their relationships are forever associated with that baseline.

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 — Tracking changes in product development is critical, along with tracking the details and context that led to the change, managing specific version differences, and revealing how stakeholders are affected by the changes.

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.

Reuse and synchronization — Reuse and synchronization methods detect variance and highlight the impact of that variance across releases and projects. These features let you maximize your requirements resource management. You can modify and evolve existing work quickly while maintaining your requirements lineage.

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.