What types of requirement documents are there and why?

Goran Madzar

26/03/2015

In medical technology, there are a whole series of documents containing requirements. This sometimes leads to a situation where the purpose of each document is unclear, and it's difficult to distinguish between them. To provide some clarity, I've created an overview and highlighted the key design input and design output documents.

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The result is an overview in table format. It's quite possible that the documents in your organization are named differently, are missing entirely, or that you use additional documents. If so, you can use the table as inspiration and adapt it to your organization. Discuss the table with other people in your company. You'll be amazed at the insights you gain and the confusion that may emerge :-)

SinnundZweckderAnforderungsdokumente

To the PDF: Meaning and purpose of the requirements documents

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Have lots of fun with it

Goran Madzar

 


Written by Goran Madzar

A passionate MEDtech engineer! My team and I provide engineering services to medical technology manufacturers to help them develop and market their products! Feel free to contact me via LinkedIn or email. I look forward to meeting you.


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