Jama Software
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Jama Software is a privately held company that was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon
. Jama’s flagship product, Jama Contour, was released in 2007. It is a web-based application for social product development and requirements management
.
Contour allows for integration with various product development tools, including HP Quality Center
, Atlassian JIRA
, Jive Engage, Enterprise Architect
, Atlassian
Crowd. Contour also includes LDAP and BIRT Project
integrations to enhance the functionality for enterprise user management, testing and custom reporting.
firm, Redside Solutions Inc., in 2001. Winquist got the idea for Jama while running that company. Based on his experience there, one of the critical areas within the world of project management
that was a major source of frustration and failure was requirements management
.
In 2008, Jama Software beat out four other early stage companies and won a $110,000 investment prize at the Bend Venture Conference. A few weeks later Jama closed a $1 million investment from the Oregon Angel Fund.
In December 2010, ReadWriteWeb
named Jama as one of the top 5 enterprise startups to watch in 2011.
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
. Jama’s flagship product, Jama Contour, was released in 2007. It is a web-based application for social product development and requirements management
Requirements management
Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project...
.
Jama Contour
Jama Contour is a web-based application that is used to plan product releases, manage requirements and keep the development team in sync so products are built to specification. Contour includes Review Center, a feature that is meant to help with the requirements approval process.Contour allows for integration with various product development tools, including HP Quality Center
HP Quality Center
HP Quality Center is a set of web-based test management software offerings from the HP Software Division of Hewlett-Packard, many of which were acquired from Mercury Interactive Corporation. HP Quality Center offers software quality assurance, including requirements management, test management...
, Atlassian JIRA
JIRA
Jira may refer to:* JIRA, software-engineering package* Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis* Jira, also known as Zilla, fictional character* Jira * Jira...
, Jive Engage, Enterprise Architect
Enterprise architect
Enterprise architects are practitioners of enterprise architecture; an information technology management discipline that operates within organizations.-Role of enterprise architects:...
, Atlassian
Atlassian
Atlassian is a software company based in Sydney, Australia which makes business enterprise software, targeted at software developers. On 1 September 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.- Products :...
Crowd. Contour also includes LDAP and BIRT Project
BIRT Project
The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project is an open source software project that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities for rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE...
integrations to enhance the functionality for enterprise user management, testing and custom reporting.
Company
Eric Winquist and his wife, Margo Winquist, had started a custom software developmentSoftware development
Software development is the development of a software product...
firm, Redside Solutions Inc., in 2001. Winquist got the idea for Jama while running that company. Based on his experience there, one of the critical areas within the world of project management
Project management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
that was a major source of frustration and failure was requirements management
Requirements management
Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project...
.
In 2008, Jama Software beat out four other early stage companies and won a $110,000 investment prize at the Bend Venture Conference. A few weeks later Jama closed a $1 million investment from the Oregon Angel Fund.
In December 2010, ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb is a Web technology blog launched in 2003. RWW covers Web 2.0 and Web technology in general, and provides industry news, reviews, and analysis. Founded by Richard MacManus, Technorati ranked ReadWriteWeb at number 12 in its list of top 100 blogs worldwide, as of October 9, 2010. RWW...
named Jama as one of the top 5 enterprise startups to watch in 2011.
See also
- Product managementProduct managementProduct management is an organizational lifecycle function within a company dealing with the planning, forecasting, or marketing of a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle....
- Product lifecycle managementProduct lifecycle managementIn industry, product lifecycle management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal...
- Requirements traceabilityRequirements traceabilityRequirements traceability is a sub-discipline of requirements management within software development and systems engineering. Requirements traceability is concerned with documenting the life of a requirement and to provide bi-directional traceability between various associated requirements...
- Application lifecycle managementApplication lifecycle managementApplication Lifecycle Management is a continuous process of managing the life of an application through governance, development and maintenance...