Quick, simple tips to find sample requirement specs and templates.

I recently posted about the need for accuracy and precision in requirements. In that post, I mentioned that natural language requirements are probably the least precise format for expressing requirements. Many BA’s, myself included, write specs composed of natural language requirements and a few flow diagrams for clarification and context. So, given that natural language is not inherently precise, how do we at least make them as precise as possible?

“Functional specifications documents lead to an illusion of agreement. A bunch of people agreeing on paragraphs of text is not real agreement. Everyone is reading the same thing, but they’re often thinking something different.”