Software product lifecyle
" ...your document is just great. Please put this on your blog or somewhere ... " -- Mdsr The initiation of a project can be started by any of è è Marketing Requirement Document MRD : This document is conducted by marketing team , which identifies possible product gaps in the industry. They later come up with MRD, highlighting what market is anticipating in the future. This serves as stimulus for product/project initiation. It can be regarded as a wish list + requirement. è Software Requirement Specification SRS : This document is composed by Technical Management at the company. They take input from MRD and devise how to achieve what is proposed by marketing guys. If marketing guys are just beating about the bush, than engineering starts from this document. This document explains the product composition and/or product placement. It shows what is required and where, but not shows how. *There is an IEEE standard for SRS, which is just amazing template to u