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Specification Sheet, Functional Specification
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
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5. Quality Parameters: Which quality level is to be reached?
6. Additions
Source: http://www.infrasoft.at/downloads/Anleitung_zum_Pflichtenheft.pdf