Published Date: August 2026
Validated: Yes
Audience: Everyone
Products and Versions Covered:
- Onboarding Jama Connect®
Summary
Explore resources and recommended practices that can help your organization improve engineering process performance and reduce product development risk with Jama Connect®. This article focuses on three key areas that can be evaluated throughout your Jama Connect journey:
- Requirements Quality
- Digital Engineering
- Live Traceability
This article also includes an Onboarding Jama Connect® Template to help your team capture important onboarding information, identify key stakeholders, document goals, and support implementation activities.
Note: The Onboarding Jama Connect® Template and other supporting materials are available in the Attachments section at the bottom of this page. Links to related guidance, services, training, and other resources are available under Additional Resources.
Resolution
Understand the Key Levers for Improving Engineering Outcomes
Measuring engineering process performance can help your organization identify opportunities for improvement and reduce product development risk.
Evaluate three key areas when measuring and improving your engineering processes with Jama Connect:
1. Requirements Quality
Evaluate the quality and consistency of your requirements to identify opportunities to reduce risk, rework, and inefficiencies.
Consider:
- Whether requirements follow consistent authoring practices.
- Where requirements quality can be improved.
- Opportunities to increase reuse across products and projects.
- How improved requirements can reduce downstream risk and rework.
Capabilities and services such as Jama Connect Advisor™, requirements-authoring training, and requirements assessments can help your teams improve the way requirements are written and managed.
2. Digital Engineering
Evaluate how effectively your organization has adopted digital engineering practices and incorporated engineering processes into Jama Connect.
Consider:
- The extent to which engineering processes are performed digitally.
- Gaps in Jama Connect adoption and usage.
- Differences in adoption across projects or teams.
- How your organization's usage compares with relevant benchmarks, when available.
- Opportunities to improve process alignment, adoption, or training.
Use these insights to identify where greater adoption or process alignment can improve your organization's use of Jama Connect.
3. Live Traceability
Evaluate traceability completeness to identify gaps and reduce risk across the product development process.
Use Traceability Score™ to help:
- Assess traceability completeness.
- Identify missing or incomplete relationships.
- Compare projects with engineering process best practices.
- Evaluate performance across internal projects.
- Benchmark against industry peers, when applicable.
- Identify opportunities to reduce product development risk.
Use traceability insights to identify gaps and prioritize areas for improvement.
Use Measurements to Drive Improvement
Requirements Quality, Digital Engineering, and Live Traceability provide complementary perspectives on the performance of your engineering processes.
Work with your Core Team to determine which measures align with the goals and expected business outcomes established during onboarding.
Use the Onboarding Jama Connect® Template to:
- Capture implementation goals and relevant onboarding information.
- Identify key stakeholders and responsibilities.
- Document opportunities for process improvement.
- Establish baseline measurements where appropriate.
Use your measurements to identify gaps, establish improvement priorities, and evaluate progress over time. Revisit them as your implementation matures to determine whether changes are producing the intended results and where additional improvements may be needed.
Additional Resources
Requirements Quality
Jama Software Resources
- Success Programs
- Success Catalog
- Datasheets
- Request a Solution Offering or Training from the Success Catalog
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