The Power of Reuse

  Requirements Management   ProjectsAtWork  

When it comes to requirements, reinventing the wheel is costly, time-consuming and often unnecessary. The latest evolution of Jama’s collaborative requirements management platform introduces an intelligent, enterprise-wide system to reuse the requirements and other product details that are the same across multiple products.

Improving requirements is increasingly viewed as a strategic imperative, according to industry watchers and analysts. “When asked which among several possible initiatives would improve application development the most, teams put ‘improvements of requirements practices’ at the top of the list, by a significant margin,” wrote Tom Grant, senior analyst, Forrester Research, in his research report, “High-Value Requirements Are Changing App Dev and Delivery.”

Indeed, recreating the wheel is time-consuming, frustrating and costly. And yet, many organizations still rebuild every requirement from scratch when starting a new product.

To address this widespread inefficiency, Jama Software has introduced Jama Contour 3.6 to help organizations eliminate rework and duplication of effort in product-development processes.

“Product development is broken within the enterprise and is ripe for reinvention,” says Eric Winquist, CEO, Jama Software. “With Contour’s enterprisereuse capabilities, …

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