Requirements Traceability Benchmark

To reduce the risk of delays, cost overruns, defects, rework, audits, recalls and product failures, measuring requirement traceability should be a top priority for management teams. Since requirements define both product value and outcome, they are the only common language that ties together soiled engineering disciplines (systems, software, hardware, electrical, risk, quality, verification, etc.) and the best way to track product development progress and risks.

Jama Software® is the first to measure traceability thanks to our clients’ participation in a benchmarking dataset of over 40,000 complex product development projects spanning aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, medical device, semiconductor, space systems, and more. All of this is made possible by our core product, Jama Connect®, which enables the largest community of engineers using Requirements Management SaaS (Software as a Services) in the world.

To formally measure traceability, we have established the Traceability Score™ which measures the level of actual process adherence to the expected traceability model and can be used to compare performance across projects, teams, divisions, companies and determine impacts to cycle time, delays, risk reduction and quality.

Jama Connect is the first and only Requirements Management SaaS to deliver live traceability via a continuous traceability model that defines all traceable steps in the product development process and continuously syncs data to and from best of breed tools. This enables Jama Connect to measure traceability at the project, product, division, and company levels. As part of the largest SaaS community of requirements management users, Jama Connect customers benefit from benchmarking their performance against aggregated and anonymized metrics.

This benchmarking analysis is based solely on aggregated and anonymized data from Jama Connect usage that was fully permissioned to be used for these purposes – the largest dataset ever assembled to analyze traceability. Here are some descriptive statistics for the dataset used for this benchmarking analysis:

• 50 million unique product requirement items
• 6.7 million unique test cases
• 2.9 million item level status updates
• 360,000+ defects
• 40,000+ complex product development projects
• 6,000+ traceability models

All Jama Success Program customers are eligible for a free Traceability Benchmark Report to see how their projects score and compare against industry benchmarks. If you are interested in participating in the Traceability Benchmark Report or have questions, please contact your CSM.