Cameo Integration with Jama Connect

Jama Connect® Features in Five: Cameo Systems Modeler 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, Gary Hayes, Senior Solutions Architect at Jama Software^® – will demonstrate the Cameo Systems Modeler integration with Jama Connect^® using Intercax Syndeia.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Gary Hayes: Hello, and welcome to the Features in Five Integration series. My name is Gary Hayes, and I am a Senior Solutions Architect at Jama Software. Today, we will be walking through the Cameo Systems Modeler integration for Jama Connect. 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 start off today by looking at the two environments that we’ll be working with, Jama Connect and Cameo Systems Modeler. In Jama Connect, in our project here, we have a folder called swarming along with five requirements we’ve identified that we wanna be using. If we look over the Cameo System Modeler, you notice that we have the same folder, but we only have four requirements listed there.

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Hayes: We can easily compare the items that exist in both environments, the four that you see here. We go into the plug-in that we’re using, identify the SysML repository, and we drill down on that folder that contains those requirements, and we can do a comparison between the source and the target. The plug-in will do the comparison for us. We don’t have to drill down and do a close examination.

When we get our results, we see that everything is green, indicating to us that the items in the folders that have been synchronized indeed match at this point. We can close this out for the time being, but you’ll keep in mind that we only have four requirements in Cameo, but we have a fifth one that does not exist currently in Cameo that is in Jama Connect. So we want to make sure that both environments do indeed match, and we can do that easily by dragging and dropping using that same plug-in.

We go back into our dashboard. We find our SysML repository, and we find our Jama Connect project that we’re working with. Drill down on that to find those requirements that currently are being synchronized between the two environments. We can easily see that we have the swarming folder along with its five requirements from Jama Connect and four from our Cameo environment. And to match those up, we want to drag and drop this into our Cameo environment.

And you’ll notice over here as it brings that over, you notice in the background, the cameo environment updates automatically to reflect the fact that we’ve brought a new requirement into the cameo environment. We can further confirm that by doing a synchronization check, doing that comparison once again at the folder level, compare our source and target, and hopefully, we’ll get all green one more time to show that the environments do indeed match up. But we don’t always have the luxury of dragging and dropping and never making any changes in any environment, so what we’ll want to do is make a change in one environment and push that from one side to the other. So let’s go into this individual requirement, broadcast to Swarm, and it’s annotated that it is indeed from Jama Connect. So we’re gonna remove that annotation in its title.

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Hayes: We’ll go ahead and save that in our Jama Connect environment. You’ll notice that’s updated. Now we want to be able to show that same type of update. We’ll do that comparison first to see where we’re at because we never know when changes will occur. We can do our compare, make sure that comparison actually works, and flag us for a change. And indeed, we do. It comes up as pink or red, depending on your monitor, and flags us that there has been a there’s a discrepancy between the two environments. And you’ll notice too that it does the comparison. It doesn’t automatically make the change, and you can see that in the background. And in our Cameo environment, that change has not rolled over from Jama Connect to Cameo. So let’s make that change, permanent now. Let’s go ahead and do that push. We can push from our target to our source.

Keep your eyes on the Cameo environment in the background. As we make that change and it gets pushed over, you’ll notice that the name or the description of the requirement in Cameo indeed has changed, and so that has been updated automatically for us. We can do one last check with our compare tool, comparing source and target. So we get all green just for one additional factor of confidence that we get there, and you can see it there. So that’s one way to keep your Cameo and Jama Connect environments in sync using a plug-in.

Thank you for watching this Features in Five session on the Cameo Systems Modeler 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 visit our website at jamasoftware.com to learn more about the platform and how we can help optimize your development process.

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Gary Hayes

Solutions Architect at Jama Software

Gary has been working in technology/engineering fields for more than 40 years.

He started his career in the avionics field supporting fixed wing aircraft for the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing out of El Toro, CA. His post-Marine career includes stints with:

• NASA Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center) Brook Park, OH
• Honeywell Test Instruments Division (Alliant Tech Systems)
• Lockheed Martin Astronautics
• US West Telecommunications
• Rational Software
• Jeppesen Sanderson (aviation charting)
• Wells Fargo Home Mortgage IT

In 2006 Gary joined IBM as a Solutions Engineer supporting Department of Defense programs (primarily Air Force and Navy) implementing Engineering tools to enhance & accelerate systems, and software engineering efforts. The Engineering tools spanned everything from architectural modeling to test management.

Most recently, Gary joined Jama Software and continues to support Department of Defense projects & programs.Jama focuses on requirements management, and has a reputation as an easy-to-use, and implement requirements management tool. Jama’s goal is to migrate existing programs off antiquated and difficult to deploy engineering tools, and to provide new programs with easy to adopt tools to support their engineering processes.

Jama Connect® Features in Five: Cameo Systems Modeler Integration using Intercax Syndeia