Jama Labs: Requirements Advisor Beta. What?

Hello, hope you are doing well today. I wanted to talk about a new Free Beta from Jama Labs which is an effective tool for writing higher quality requirement statements.

Writing effective requirements statements is key to efficient and successful product development:

The problem of poor requirements:

• Approximately 50% of product defects originate in requirements.
• 80% of rework can be traced to requirements defects.
• Companies can spend over 41.5% of new project development resources on poorly specified requirements. 

Unique Authoring Expertise Required

• Skill is often developed over a long period of time and experience, key learnings can come at the cost of failures, but also represent valuable learning opportunities.
• Development team members can change or reform rapidly.
• How can key learnings be retained, as institutional knowledge and shared across multiple teams?

For creators of complex products who need to author requirements quickly, easily, and with precision.

Leveraging the power of Natural Language Processing, Jama Software® Labs Requirements Advisor Technology Beta delivers fast and accurate analysis of your product requirements statements including recommendations for improvements based on industry best practices.

Advice based on a Unique Combination of Systems Engineering Industry Best Practices: INCOSE Rules and EARS

• INCOSE Rules: The International Council for Systems Engineering (INCOSE) published the latest version of the guide, (V3) June 2019. Purchase this full document at the www.incose.org Store.
• What is EARS? Alistair Mavin, the originator of EARS, “The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS) is a mechanism to gently constrain textual requirements. The EARS patterns provide structured guidance that enables authors to write high-quality textual requirements…” More information at: https://alistairmavin.com/ears/

Clear, Easy-to-Read Reports

• Easy online graphical report presentation with summary data and individual statement improvement suggestions.
• Optional, highly detailed spreadsheet report download for detailed offline analysis.

Optimized User Experience

• Contemporary, purpose-built, intuitive, web-based user interface.
• Assessment Options:
• Single Statement Assessment
• Multiple Statement Assessment via spreadsheet upload

Try it out. Let us know what you think! 

https://labs.jamasoftware.com/