Jama Connect

Jama Connect approaches ALM from a very specific angle: rigorous requirements management. It is not trying to be a daily task board for a consumer app developer. Instead, it is built for companies engineering incredibly complex, high-stakes products that involve both hardware and software—such as medical devices, automotive control systems, and aerospace technologies. In these highly regulated industries, a software failure can result in a physical catastrophe. Jama Connect ensures that every single line of code can be traced back to a specific engineering requirement, which can in turn be traced back to a specific safety regulation (like FDA 21 CFR Part 11 or ISO 26262). This end-to-end traceability proves to auditors that the product was built safely and tested thoroughly. The platform provides a collaborative environment similar to Google Docs but specifically engineered for system specifications. Stakeholders can leave contextual comments on specific engineering requirements rather than emailing spreadsheets back and forth. It integrates seamlessly with downstream tools like Jira; systems engineers can lock down the requirements in Jama, and those requirements automatically sync as executable tasks for the software developers working in Jira.