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On July 12, 2015 we celebrated eight years of Jama. The Jama team (and families!) came together to celebrate eight years of creativity and collaboration. A few snapshots from our day of celebration… We started off the day with breakfast on the patio from Fried Egg Love. My Bartender and Sterling Catering & Cookies helped […]
In just about every conversation we have with product managers we hear different versions of the same story: We must say no to feature requests that don’t map to top priorities, and we have to do it about 10 times a day. Product managers get requests from multiple sources: the sales team, key customers, the competition, […]
Knowing when to get an MVP to market for customer feedback—and when to keep researching and testing—is a skill product managers learn with experience. Still, even the most experienced product teams often struggle to stay in touch with their customers. Sure, we read as much as we can about our changing market, and we have our […]
In this age of continuous delivery when increased time pressures compound communication breakdowns, keeping teams aligned has never been more important. Methodologies such as Agile and DevOps address these issues, and they require evangelists — plus tools — to support these practices. Jama Product Manager Derwyn Harris weighs in on this piece in CA’s publication, rewrite, on “purposeful […]
Today is the last day of 2014. Today is also the last day before 137 Jama employees move into our new world headquarters. Moving is exciting and moving is a new beginning and I’d say this is a bittersweet move except that in the last 15 months we’ve been so busy, so bursting at the […]
On December 4, 2014 Jama was recognized by the Portland Business Journal as being one of Oregon’s Most Admired Companies. For the past 10 years, the PBJ has surveyed 2,600 CEOs annually across Oregon to select the companies they most admire in our region. The CEOs are asked to select three companies in order of […]
Technology Adoption vs. Change It can be tempting to think of technology adoption and change as one in the same. But there are inherent differences, some of which you can see by thinking about them in terms of their graphical representations. If you overlay the traditional Technology Adoption Curve on top of the generally accepted […]
It’s a big week in Jama Nation: our 7th Birthday was July 7, and we’ve spent the week reminiscing on our intranet about favorite Jama memories from the last few years. The posts have been funny, poignant, unforgettable reminders of how glad we are to operate in the Rose City and all that entails. Here are […]
Within organizations, there is a growing divide between the teams responsible for defining, building, and testing the solutions that support the company vision. As enterprise product delivery becomes more and more complex, the chasm expands proportionately, and the challenges of coordination and alignment are compounded. Teams become locked in information silos, disjointed by the use […]
The following is an excerpt from our whitepaper: Better, Smarter Faster: Accelerating Innovation Across The Enterprise. Finding the right product delivery solution isn’t easy—there are a lot of different features to take into account. However, many innovative companies are finding that there are several key elements to look for in order to choose a solution […]