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Business Analysts, IT developers and consultants often ask for an exemplary requirements specification as a starting point in their specific project. This document is such a specification. It is a template filled out with a complex example: requirements for an Electronic Health Record system (EHR). Only a few points had to be illustrated with examples from other areas. Large parts of the specification may be reused in other projects. Parts that are too special for reuse are shown in italics.

All the requirements are written in tables. The left column is the customer's demands. A sample solution or the proposed solution is in the neighbor column.

You can simply copy the template, delete the first page, and adjust the rest to your project. The parts in italics should always be replaced with something else - without italics.

The guide to the template is published as a separate booklet:

Soren Lauesen: Guide to Requirements SL-07 - Template with Examples.
Lauesen Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 978-87-992344-0-0.
Available on amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de or through book stores. 

The guide comments the template page by page, explains why the requirements are stated as they are, what to avoid, and how to elicit and test the requirements.

Author: Soren Lauesen, The IT University of Copenhagen, December 31, 2007
http://www.itu.dk/people/slauesen