Tech Spec vs Functional Spec was RE: What are you working on?

[James Barrow]

>Richard Lewis wrote:

>Can anyone enlighten me as to what a "Technical Specification" is.  I know
>what a Functional Specification is - and the definition of such is fairly
>standard across the industry.  But what is a Technical Specification?
   
Hmmm...I remember this question coming up some time ago and the answers
varied widely.  To my knowledge a the difference is this:

Let's say that company XYZ is building a data center - a room that will
house their servers.

A Technical Spec might list the how big the room should be, at what
temperature the room should be kept, how far off the floor the servers
should be, etc.

A Functional Spec might describe how those same servers are configured, how
to remotely reboot them, etc.

- Jim