The Technical Specification Document

The next step in project development is to produce a “technical spec,” which is a document describing how you're going to implement everything listed in the requirements document. The technical spec has to be separate from the requirements document because the audiences are different. While your functional requirements document is a “public” document that spells things out in nontechnical terms for a nontechnical audience (your users), the technical specification document is to help you with your current and future development efforts. Its audience is technical project managers, architects, and developers. If you do your job in producing the technical spec correctly, your developers will use it as a roadmap ...

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