World-class product organizations like Apple have at least three rigorous requirements documents completed and approved by executives prior to launching any hardware / software product: a Marketing Requirements Document
(MRD), an Engineering Requirements Document (ERD), and a Product Design Document.
Whether you are building Internet based software products or
whether your focus is bringing to market hardware products / solutions or whether
you want to bundle hardware and software together into a set of solutions, crafting
industrial strength MRD (Marketing Requirements Document) and PRD (Product Requirements
Document) docs as a prelude to a successful product launch are key! Our hope is that the documents provided
below for free browsing will make your products world-beaters.
PRD Template - 50 Pages - Hardware Products
This industrial strength PRD template is focused on building
Hardware / Firmware products and solutions such as computer servers, PCs, chips and chip-sets,
routers and networking equipment, disk drives, mice, printers, monitors, cell-phones, PDAs,
set-top boxes, gaming-consoles, etc. Sample sections in this PRD document which is fifty pages in length include Manufacturing Requirements, Regulatory Compliance and Homologation, Customer Success and Use Cases, Brand (Counterfeit) Protection, Product Requirements including Upgrade / Transition / Migration plans, Product Strategy, Product Positioning, Market Dynamics and Strategy, Product go-to-market strategies, New Customer Launch and Anti-Competitive Launch, Cost-based Pricing and Competitive Pricing, Product Localization / Internationalization, System Performance Impact, Preventive maintenance / Sparing, IP (Intellectual Property) Licensing, Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, Responsive Supply Chain Design guidelines, Review Action Items, Glossary, and
References.
Attractively priced at $89 (this is a promotional price for a limited time, and includes up to 3 Q&A interactions by e-mail with its author Sam Mishra, this template is ideal for high-tech firms serious about building a hardware product / solution which may or may not have software elements as part of its product rollout planning. Browsing the pages is free, and is supported by advertisements.
PRD Template - 30 Pages - Software / Internet products This PRD template is 30 pages long, and is focused on Internet / Software products
and solutions. If your focus is
building applications software, Internet based SaaS (Software as a Service), etc.; you
will find the template really helpful to jumpstart your product development and marketing
efforts. This is the same
template cutting edge software startups and established software giants use to bring their
products rapidly to market in Silicon Valley.
The template is currently priced at $49, and browsing is free. This low pricing
enables directors of product management / product marketing and others to bypass their company approval process and take the decision
to acquire the template for immediate PRD crafting.
Spiral Modeling / Iterative Development e-book
This e-book is sixteen pages long and elaborates current software development and management
methodologies. Software build / release cycles need to take into account not only the
productivity levels of engineers / developers and business analysts / product managers,
but also the depth and effectiveness
of the management team. Using agile development methodologies ranging from
rapid prototyping to
spiral model of software development, the build / release
cycle can be speeded up to meet market / customer demand. However, whether you
follow extreme programming or a more traditional
waterfall methodology,
time tested techniques like
Function Point Analysis (FPA) can be of immense use
in estimating and budgeting your build / release costs. Also, an attention to detail can
help you manage timely software delivery by more accurately scheduling and managing your
project tasks using PERT charting.
