Jama Connect

The Engineering Team at my client was focused on developing the ability to demonstrate their engineering organization's ASPICE capabilities as they worked to improve their overall software quality. One of the necessary considerations was to have a Requirements Management tool that could support traceability. The use case focused primarily on software engineering and software development.

• Positive impact teaching how to write good requirements
• Positive impact learning how easy it is to do traceability
• Positive impact learning how to document test plans and test outcomes
• Positive impact with routings and approvals
• Business objectives are still a work in progress to meet but company is well on its way to meeting those related to Jama

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Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, Microsoft Visio, GitHub, TestRail

Our organization uses Jama for requirements and risk management, as well as design verification and validation activities. Jama allows us to maintain traceability between system and subsystem requirements, test cases, and risk file line items. Having a single source of truth for our design history file content has been extremely valuable for future iterative new product development projects and scope assessments for design changes.

• Streamlined design change management
• Reduced rework burden from changes to requirements or traceability
• Let time spent copying and pasting between documents
• Fewer errors from incorrect item IDs in documents

We are using Jama Connect to be more than just a requirements management tool - we are using Jama Connect as the single source of truth to contain not just the requirements, but the why and how the system is the way it is. My organisation has only just started on its journey to adopt systems engineering, so we are using Jama Connect to start that engagement with stakeholders from senior members of the organisation, to individual designers and engineers.

• One experience that converted an engineer to using Jama Connect was an electronics engineer that was writing test plans. I showed them about how to write "unit" or very discrete tests and then showed them an automatic export to get the document. Thus the authoring of the document effort was taken away, they could focus on defining the test
• Unfortunately I have very much struggled to embed systems engineering, requirements management and Jama Connect as part of the 'ways of working' outside the systems and electronics teams.

The Jama application is for a development project which has a combined hardware and software aspects and requires DO178 standards on the software. Jama Connection together with Gitlab are enabling application and easy auditing and traceability with testing coverage

• It saves time for reviews and approval cycles by up to 50% compared to our normal process and cuts down on waiting periods.

GitLab

Our entire company uses Jama Connect to document the following:

<ul><li>Risk Management File </li><li>User Needs</li><li>System Requirements</li><li>Software Requirements</li><li>Requirement Traceability </li><li>FMEA (use, software, and process)</li><li>Software Development Plan</li><li>Verification Plan and Report</li><li>Validation Plan and Report</li></ul><div>We pretty much use it for the entire software development lifecycle and utilize its review/approval and baselining system for our controlled documents. </div><div>

</div><div>We also use it to send to our customers either via a direct Jama review or export to PDF/Microsoft Word. </div><div>

</div><div>We also use commenting feature within the review process to be able to edit on the spot per item per comment then publishing a new version of the document for baseline and review. </div>

• FDA approvals are easy because of document export. Can export documents in a matter of seconds.
• Viewing tracing to verification documents so easily reduced our planning time by 5x for identifying what tests are needed for regression.

codeBeamer ALM and PTC Windchill RV&S

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