Does any know of any good ... web-sites that define these documents

A good site to see *real* as opposed to theoretical software engineering is www.joelonsoftware.com. There is enough good information for you to put aside the fact that Joel is an ex-microsofty ;)

What are functional and technical design specifications?

you can read more about specifications here (1. why, 2. what, 3. how, 4. tips) but this is where it gets a bit murky. Specifications mandated by traditional software engineering work well for large teams working on *certain types* of projects - (Joel was product manager for MS Excel embedded language specification - VBA) But these techniques are not as efficeint for small teams whose deliverables may not be shrink-wrapped.

what about anti-specifications?

Extreme programming on the other hand is a light weight development process that avoids some of the pitfalls of *documented specifications* especially where you are developing in small teams (1 >= member <= 30) where rapidly changing *business, technical and functional* requirements are the norm for a non shrink wrap market.

So ask yourself what type of development will I be working with (large, small). What type of product will I be releasing (throw-away, internal, embedded, shrink wrapped?). Then check out the various different approaches to specification requirements in the links above.

In reply to large team v's small team development by g00n
in thread requirement documents? by LameNerd

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