A recent Aberdeen Group study showed that best-in-class manufacturers — those that get products to market faster with the lowest change costs — build about half the number of physical prototypes than ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

In today's enterprise landscape, software development often resembles a game of telephone. Business users articulate needs, and—after those needs go through layers of marketing, product and ...

Functional specifications provide Web developers with a blueprint of how the website or Web component will behave or function. This means that the functional specifications should not detail technical ...

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