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Jama Connect® Features in Five: Jira Integration

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Jama Connect® Features in Five: Jira Integration

Learn how you can supercharge your systems development process! In this blog series, we’re pulling back the curtains to give you a look at a few of the powerful features in Jama Connect®… in about five minutes.

In this Features in Five Integration Series video, Mario Maldari – Director, Solutions Architecture at Jama Software® – will demonstrate the Jama Connect® to Jira® integration.


VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Mario Maldari: Hello and welcome to the Features in Five Integration Series. My name is Mario Maldari and I’m the Director of Solution Architecture here at Jama Software. Today, we’ll be walking through the Jama Connect to Jira integration. We make it possible for you to integrate Jama Connect with preferred best-of-breed software to achieve Live Traceability™ across the end-to-end development cycle. Live requirements traceability is the ability for any engineer at any time to see the most up-to-date and complete upstream and downstream information for any requirement, no matter the stage of systems development or how many siloed tools and teams it spans. This enables significant productivity and quality improvements, dramatically reduces the risk of product delays, cost overruns, defects, rework, and recalls, and ultimately results in faster time to market. Let’s get started.

The Jama Connect to Jira integration allows for bidirectional synchronization of data between requirements and tasks. This allows for teams such as software developers to stay in their tool of choice and enjoy the benefit of real-time updates between the two applications. Today, we’ll be covering two core use cases for the integration. We’ll be creating a defect in Jama Connect that will synchronize to Jira, and then we’ll be creating an epic in Jira that’ll synchronize over to Jama Connect. Let’s start by executing a test case at Jama Connect’s Test Center. Let’s start our test run here and we can go through and pass or fail steps accordingly. We get to an issue, we can log a defect right from the test, and we can set things like priority. Go ahead and save that defect. And we can go ahead and save and close this test.

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Maldari: Then we can open up the test record here and we can take a look at the relationships. And as expected, we will see a link to a downstream defect that we just created. Let’s take a look and open up that defect. And we can see there’s an integration URL to the corresponding defect over in Jira that was just created. And as a developer, I can see a new defect came in and I can start to work on this defect. I can also change things like priority. I can also add a comment. Any field that’s set up to participate in the integration, such as name, description, comments, priority, all of these things can be modified from Jira and that will be synchronized over into Jama Connect. And now you’ll see that there’s a Jama Connect URL here, and this will take us back to the defect that we just created in Jama Connect.

And we can see that the priority has been set below. We can see that there’s a comment that’s been added to add an attachment, and we can actually go ahead and add an attachment here, a picture of our cracked camera. And we’ll attach that to the item. So conversely, anything in Jama Connect that’s participating in the integration, any field, name, description, priority, all of these changes from the Jama Connect side will also be reflected over on the Jira side. And so if we navigate back over into the Jira defect, we’ll do that by following this URL here, we can see that our attachment came over onto the Jira defect.

Similarly, if we’re in Jira now, we’re working and we want to create an epic, we can go ahead and create an epic. Usability improvement, we can go ahead and create that. And then let’s take a look at that epic that we just created here. Similar to the defect scenario, any field that’s set up and configured in the integration will synchronize between the two applications, and that includes the name, description again, comments, and priority. Any field that’s configured will sync over. Then if I refresh this epic that I just created, you can see now that there’s a Jama Connect URL to the correspondent epic that’s just been created in Jama Connect. So I can go here into Jama Connect and I can add things like tables and further elaborate the description, and ask the development team to fill out the table for me.

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Maldari: But more importantly, what I can do is start to establish traceability within Jama Connect now. Assuming maybe this usability improvement request came from a particular customer, I can link it to an upstream requirement, or initiative, in this case, usability improvement from the customer. And so I can start to establish traceability now, now that it’s in Jama Connect. All the work is being done in Jira on this epic, but the traceability is being established within Jama Connect. So I’m always getting the latest changes over from the Jira side participating in my traceability within Jama Connect. Let’s take a look back over to the epic in Jira, and we can see the table that I just added from Jama Connect showing up here. You can even see that there’s now an upstream link reference that gives me a reference to the traceability that I just created on the Jama Connect side.

So as you can see, the integration allows teams such as software developers to work in Jira while allowing for real-time status updates to flow over to Jama Connect and be reflected in various traceability views. This way, teams are guaranteed to have the latest status on their projects. Thank you for watching this Future in Five session on the Jira integration for Jama Connect. If you’re an existing customer and want to learn more, please reach out to your customer success manager or consultant. If you’re not yet a client, please go to our website at jamasoftware.com to learn more about the platform and how we can help optimize your development process.

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