2012 Jama Requirements Reuse Survey

1. Introduction

Recreating existing requirements over and over again for each project can be inefficient, costly and diminish quality. We’re curious about the need and impact that reuse can have across your company.

Thank you for taking time to answer 5 questions on an industry-benchmarking survey to understand the value and importance of leveraging existing requirements or other assets across a company’s project or product portfolio. Your responses will be held anonymous and tabulated in aggregate with other survey responses.

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* 1. How often do you feel your company rebuilds elements of a project when it wasn’t necessary?

Frequently

Rarely

Never

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* 2. What percentage of requirements, test cases or other assets within an average project are duplicated or commonly shared from other projects?

More than 75%

50% - 75%

25% - 50%

Less than 25%

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* 3. How much more efficient do you think your company would be if you could leverage existing assets from project to project?

75% or greater

50 – 75%

25 – 50%

Less than 25%

Not at all

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* 4. How important do you believe is reusing assets across projects to your team’s ability to deliver on time?

Very important

Important

Not important at all

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* 5. Do you wish you had an automated way to keep requirements or assets in sync across projects?

Yes

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* 6. Thank you so much for your time. We really appreciate your feedback. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the report tabulated from survey results, please provide your e-mail address (which will remain confidential) [yourname@company.com]