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Specification Sheet, Functional Specification

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A specification sheet, commonly abbreviated to “spec sheet,” is a technical document that sets out the details of how, exactly, a certain product is intended to perform or function. There are several expressions like functional, system, product, requirement and target specification.

 

Here is a catalogue what a “spec sheet” could include:

1. Goal definition: What are the main goals of the product?

1.1. Have-to-be-Criteria: goals that have to be achieved

1.2. Wish Criteria: goals that maybe have to be achieved

1.3. To-Separate Criteria: which goals have not to be achieved

 

2. Use of product: Who and when to use the product

2.1. Application area: What is the purpose?

2.2. Target group: Who is using it? Who is not using it?

2.3. Operation condition: What is the technical environment and what are important parameters?

 

3. Product environment

3.1. Software

3.2. Hardware

3.3. Product interface

 

4. Product functions

4.1. Function 1: Description and explanation of function

4.2. Function 2

 

5. Quality Parameters: Which quality level is to be reached?

 

6. Additions

 

Source: http://www.infrasoft.at/downloads/Anleitung_zum_Pflichtenheft.pdf