Case Study: Telesat achieves modernized requirements management and end-to-end traceability with Jama Software's Jama Connect

Industry Leader Telesat Selects Jama Connect to Evolve Engineering Requirements Management and Product Development

Telesat, a 50-year leader in global satellite operations, needed to evolve its engineering processes as it moved from concept to technical development for its next‑generation Lightspeed LEO constellation. The team outgrew a document‑centric approach and required a formal requirements management solution that could handle tightly coupled software and hardware requirements while being flexible, easy to implement and use, cost‑effective, and able to provide strong traceability and integrations across their engineering stack.

Telesat selected Jama Connect for its end‑to‑end traceability, open integrations, single source of truth, and low administrative overhead. Jama Connect enabled a data‑driven requirements workflow, formal change control, impact analysis, and cross‑team collaboration with minimal training, helping Telesat respond more quickly and audibly as the program scales and positioning the company to better meet in‑service targets and support future verification and validation needs.

Telesat

Nicholas “Donnie” Laughton

Director, Software Architecture and Engineering