Functional vs Non-Functional Requirements

A Guide to the Different Types of Requirements in a Hardware Engineering Project

What’s inside?

In modern, complex, and multidisciplinary engineering projects, having a robust and well thought through process for defining and managing your project’s requirements can be a critical tool in your arsenal.

With that in mind, our Head of Product has put together a guide based on our experience of best practices.

In the guide you'll find further information on:

• Why you need to understand the difference between the requirement types

• What is the hierarchy of the requirement types?

• Derived Requirements

• Customer Requirements

• Functional Requirements

• Non-functional Requirements

• How to write good requirements (best practices)

And a brief glimpse into how they look within the Flow platform.