build great

products™

THE
PRODUCT
DELIVERY
PROBLEM
The moment a company turns to its product team to
create something that will deliver business value,
team leaders don’t just get to work, they prepare for
battle. For product managers and their counterparts,
the road to launch is a fight to keep every detail,
every task—at every stage between concept and
release—grounded in business goals.

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 Product
complexity
is growing.
PRODUCT As products get “smarter” and combine
hardware and software, building them

MANAGERS
becomes more complicated. Products
have more requirements, and companies
have more products in their portfolios.
Tackling organizational complexity to keep
have to balance the needs of many stakeholders to define a set of everyone connected to the work is the key to
requirements for what’s being built, why and how. They have to prioritize delivering value faster.
and re-prioritize shifting “must-have” mandates from multiple voices—everyone
from front-end users to engineering. For example, you have to weigh the
developers’ concerns about shaky, but still-used legacy code against marketing
pressures to be first to market with innovation.

Not to mention the issues as you lead to launch: design, engineering, hardware,
53% say
software, testing, plus compliance with regulations, policies, rules of law and
industry standards … too often, these processes occur independently, adding “Differing business priorities” is the main
unnecessary complexity and conflicts. problem with turning ideas into products.

Entrepreneurs, inventors Sound familiar? We empathize

with your struggles: Writing, Top four problems bringing products to market
and innovators take the editing, and tracking documents 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
to define or test product
risks and get the glory, features, programs and services. Expected value and actual value do not match 30%

but the muscles behind Maintaining the connection

between intended outcomes,
Value is not communicated to the organization 29%

the magic come from you development methodologies Do not have effective go-to market strategy 27%
and customer value. Getting Do not communicate product value to customer 26%
approvals and consensus from both business and development, and requiring
traceability between the two. Setting the scope of work, holding contributors
accountable, organizing meetings, tracking millions of pieces of IP and product
iterations. Managing the input and output of opinionated stakeholders while When people are
tracking changes and keeping teams communicating across siloes to collaborate looped in late, companies
on building the right product, on time and on budget. cannot communicate
value. This is a top cause of
Entrepreneurs, inventors and innovators take the risks and get the glory, but product delivery delays.
the muscles behind the magic come from people like you. Whatever you’re
building and however you’re building it, your work is the foundation of every
successful launch.

What if you and everyone on your team could manage work, minimize errors,
obstacles and disorganization, and speed up product time to market using one 55% of
singular, intuitive system designed specifically for you?

JAMA’S COLLABORATION SOLUTION companies have more than 100

products in their portfolio

Since 2007, Jama Software has been developing, evolving and continually
improving a robust software solution that takes the pain, mistakes, waste and About the Survey:
siloed efforts out of product research, development and delivery. How? By Forrester Consulting conducted in-depth surveys
creating a collaborative, configurable, user-friendly, cloud-based productivity with 150 senior business and IT professionals at
enterprise organizations.
platform to track and manage the specific set of demands required to build and
bring new products to market.

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 MAKE LIFE EASIER.
SLASH PRODUCT
DELIVERY COMPLEXITY.
Product success requires
prioritizing and re-prioritizing,

FIVE “must-have” requests from

multiple stakeholders.

KEYS
TO SUCCESSFUL
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PRODUCT DELIVERY
Keep all valuable product IP in one
secure, central, accessible location.

Jama houses your company’s requirements, test cases,

discussions, decisions, and all of your valuable intellectual
property in one secure and easy-to-access place. No more REQ-315

spreadsheets and documents scattered around the company, on

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laptops, in emails, desks or file cabinets. No more scrambling

for final revisions or verifying latest versions. Jama gives CR-5309

you and everyone involved a living single source of truth.

TRACE MATRIX

Provide all stakeholders with a common

TRACE MATRIX

understanding of what’s being built.

How does everyone stay
When you’re ready to start, Jama helps your entire team on the same page about
define, collaborate, commit to and sign-off on a set of features, what is being built and
requirements and specifications. Once you get going, we’ll keep why amidst a constant
everyone informed about progress and changes along the way. stream of change?

Ensure that what gets built is what was planned.

It’s all too easy to get lost on the path to a new product launch.
Jama helps ensure that what you specify is what gets built, and that
your teams are well-positioned to juggle the inevitable tradeoffs.
Jama gives your team and company confidence that you are ready
to release without missing anything.

Connect quality to product requirements throughout.

Loop teams into the product delivery process early, and keep them
connected throughout the design and development process. Jama
drives higher-quality by ensuring complete test coverage against
the most updated version of software, system and component
specifications.

Reuse information across product lines.

What if you could deliver business
Don’t “reinvent the wheel” each time you start a new project. Jama
value, minimize errors and speed
empowers teams to leverage existing IP to accelerate new products
time to market with a system
and projects. Bring specs, knowledge and best practices forward
designed specifically for you?
and reuse information already stored in Jama to leapfrog your time
to market.

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THREE WAYS JAMA DELIVERS ROI Ten common
FASTER challenges
Jama tackles
BETTER Engaging all the right stakeholders in the most
effective, efficient manner (knowing who to

CHEAPER
involve, when and how)

Tracking product, program and project details

“Pick two” is the typical offer. But when you’re planning, building and launching while responding to a constant stream of
new products using Jama, you get all three. Here’s how: new information

FASTER. Finding critical information you need at the

moment you need it instead of searching
For each hour product teams spend working, they spend 48 minutes through emails, spreadsheets, SharePoint, tribal
waiting—more than three-and-a-half hours in an eight-hour day. (Forrester knowledge in team members’ heads, etc.
Research, “Application Delivery in the Modern Age.”) Jama can cut your
wait time in half, giving you back more than one-and-a-half hours of
workday productivity. That’s a 19.7 percent boost. Keeping teams in-sync and updated on what they
are planning, building, testing and releasing

BETTER.
Prioritizing and re-prioritizing what goes into
Jama is adaptable to your needs now and as your company grows, priorities each release, based on new information, insights
change and product development strategies and tactics evolve. Working and pressures
with Jama is not a transactional endeavor; it’s a partnership planned
around what you need to accomplish and how Jama’s collaborative product
delivery platform can help you achieve it. Revisiting decisions and changes because you
haven’t been able to capture context, discussions
or approvals in an accessible manner
CHEAPER.
Our SaaS (Software as Service) subscription model gives you entry to an Identifying opportunities to reuse and synchronize
efficient and intuitive specialized tool for managing product development projects, items and components to reduce risk and
at a fair and accessible price point. Configure the combination and levels of save time
services, support and expertise that you need now; change and add to them
as your company grows.
Navigating and mastering the complexity
Together, these lead to the Holy Grail of ROI. That 19.7 percent boost in of products, projects, processes, teams and
productivity? On a 25-person product team, you net a savings of over $372,000 communication
per year. For every $1 invested in Jama, you save $7.74. And that’s just the
tip of the iceberg. Once you factor in how Jama makes newly found work time
more efficient, your ROI grows along with your capabilities. Struggling to delight business customers while
juggling overtaxed resources and tight deadlines
Jama is built to serve, not
For every $1 invested in command, with configurable
Jama, you save $7.74 features tailored to your
particular discipline. In a
Ensuring on-time, within-budget delivery of the
right product
nutshell, you use Jama to
simplify both common and complex tasks and create plug-in processes where
none exist so that your team works more efficiently toward more predictable,
controllable and desirable results.

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