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ReadMedical Devices & Life Sciences Product Development News
As medical devices, software and technologies—and the risk management, regulations and recommendations concerning them—become more of a mainstream topic of conversation, we thought now would be a...
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ReadBest Practices for Developing Safety-Critical System Software Requirements
What do you call a system that has never-changing requirements? An obsolete system. Systems that are healthy and growing are always evolving or changing in some way. Avionics, automotive and...
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ReadTop 10 DO-178C Best Practices for Avionics Engineers & Managers
We’ve all heard the joke, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.” The adage is true for many goals in life we strive for. As defined, practice is… “Repeated exercise in...
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ReadHow to Write Good Requirements, Pt. III
Using stakeholder, system, hardware and software requirements to build a professional wireless microphone. In the post below—the last of three transcribed from his Writing Good Requirements...
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ReadHow to Write Good Requirements, Pt. II of III
Key differences between requirements and specifications, why different levels of requirements are important, and how to establish a clear requirements hierarchy you can use and change to suit any...
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ReadHow to Write Good Requirements, Pt. I of III
Finding the requirements management sweet spot means being concise, specific and parametric, and answering the question, “What do we need?” rather than, “How do we fulfill a need?” In the post...
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ReadRobots Take the Wheel
“At the beginning of the automotive age, drivers entering a city were required to have a person on foot walk in front of the car sounding a klaxon to warn the citizenry that a motorized vehicle...
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It’s a Tough Job but Someone’s Gotta Do It, Pt. VII. How Jama Helps VPs of Sales
If there’s a constant theme for VPs of Sales, it’s pressure. In times flush and lean, driven by forecasts definitive and dubious, sales teams are the shock absorbers and the turbo chargers that...
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It’s a Tough Job but Someone’s Gotta Do It, Pt. VI. How Jama Helps Systems Engineers
“Engineers are relatively good at logical decisions. The problem is with the assumptions. Testing the assumptions is the most important trait of a good systems engineer. Keep the...
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It’s a Tough Job but Someone’s Gotta Do It, Pt. V. How Jama Helps VPs of Product
VPs of Product shoulder a formidable set of full-time challenges. Accountable to both business and engineering plans, a wise Product leader recognizes that clear communication and meaningful...
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ReadIt’s a Tough Job but Someone’s Gotta Do It, Pt. IV. How Jama Helps QA Leads
The next time you feel like your professional life has gotten too complicated, get some face time with a seasoned Quality Assurance pro. The job? Easy stuff such as exposing the production flaws...
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It’s a Tough Job but Someone’s Gotta Do It, Pt. III. How Jama Helps Project Managers
An unfair truth: Project Managers are expected to be janitors. When there’s a mess, the PM must finagle and finesse the problematic actions, unexpected errors and sidetracked key players back into...
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It’s a Tough Job but Someone’s Gotta Do It, Pt. II. How Jama Helps Business Analysts
What’s on the Business Analyst’s wish list? Oh, plenty of illogical, unreasonable and preposterous things such as these evergreen dreams: Increased product quality On-time and on-spec product (and...
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It’s a Tough Job but Someone’s Gotta Do It, Pt. I. How Jama Helps Product Managers
40-50%. That’s the percentage of companies that manage the creation, iteration, testing and launch of new products with MS Office, Google Docs and other all-purpose documentation tools, according...
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ReadClose DOORS & Modernize Requirements Management With Jama
Stop chasing down documents in DOORS and focus on the items within them that matter. For many years, IBM’s Rational DOORS (v.9) has been a widely adopted Requirements Management (RM) tool for...
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The Product Manager’s Quest: A Unicorn Named Traceability
Open just about any business management book or blog and the topic of accountability—and the eternal quest for it—will turn up. But when your world revolves around managing the creation, iteration...
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Think Like a Product Manager
“There are so many moving objects when managing a product. You must be aware of them all (managing vendors, internal politics, management structure, development teams, testers, project managers,...
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Read10 Challenges Every Product Manager Faces
And one proven way to handle them with speed and finesse. For product managers and their counterparts, the road to launch is a fight to keep every task, every detail and every change grounded in...
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