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Subject:Re: Need Engineering Requirements Templates From:Chantel Brathwaite <brathwaitec -at- castupgrade -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:33:59 -0500
Nancy,
One starting place might be to look for is in military specs. They are
very detailed and can be a bit overwhelming - but if you can identify
the type of requirement document that you want (sounds like you are
looking for maybe an Software Requirements Specification or maybe a
System Subsystem Design Description document which would be at a higher
level of design - but I'm not sure) then you can use that exact title or
specification number to do a search. You'll probably find government
docs that are not proprietary.
IEEE also has corresponding specs ... again, if you do a search on the
spec number - you might find some non-proprietary stuff. I think the
main standard that you'd want to reference is ISO/IEC 12207.
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