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35 Examples of Requirements

John Spacey, updated on March 30, 2021

A requirement is a specification of a business need that can include functions, behaviors and qualities of a product, service, process or practice. In many cases, requirements are draw from stakeholders who represent different aspects of a project such as business units, designers, architects, technologists, experts and operations teams. The following are common examples of requirements:

Accessibility

Requirements designed to ensure that products, services, interfaces and environments are accessible to people with disabilities.

Architectural Requirements

A set of requirements typically provided by an architect who is familiar with the architectural governance, design and standards of an organization. Provides basic guidelines for integrating with existing architectures and practices.

Audit Trail

Traceability of actions, events and data for the purposes of audits, investigations and compliance.

Availability

The uptime requirements for a service typically measured in downtime per year.

Backup And Restore

Expectations for backup and restore of data. Part of operational requirements.

Behavioral Requirements

How a product, service, process or interface behaves, typically documented with use cases.

Capacity

Capacity such as data storage per user.

Customer Experience

Requirements for customer service or brand experience.

Customer Requirements

Any requirement that is a customer's idea. For example, a service provider may engage their largest accounts to provide requirements for improvements. Customer requirements may also originate with complaints or activities designed to collect customer ideas that may be innovative or interesting.

Deployment

Special deployment instructions such as a pilot launch.

Design And Usability

Requirements related to look, feel and human interfaces.

Disaster Recovery

Specifications for handling major risks. For example, a critical business process may have a back up process that assumes resources such as offices and primary systems are inaccessible.

Extensibility

Ability to easily extend a platform, service, product or process in the future.

Fault Tolerance

The ability to continue operation in the face of errors or loss of resources such as an internet connection.

Functional Requirements

A broad term for core business requirements such as business rules, behaviors, calculations, measurements, reporting, inputs, outputs and data processing.

Implementation Requirements

Describes how requirements are to be implemented. For example, a specific technology platform or tool that is to be used. In many cases, implementation details are documented as constraints as opposed to requirements.

Information Security

Information security requirements are typically provided by a security architect or analyst.

Integration Requirements

Integration of organizations, processes, data or systems.

Interoperability

Requirements to work seamlessly with other products, services, equipment, platforms or processes.

Legal And Compliance

Requirements from your legal department that manage legal liability or ensure compliance to laws, regulations and agreements.

Non-Functional Requirements

A general term for requirements that aren't directly related to functions and behaviors of a product, system or process. Requirements such as capacity, scalability, operations and deployment are typically considered non-functional.

Operational Requirements

Requirements related to day-to-day operations such as maintenance. Typically supplied by teams that will operate a product, service or process.

Performance Requirements

How quickly a process or service works, particularly when volumes are at their peak.

Process Requirements

Requirements related to processes and practices.

Product Requirements

Specifications of a product or service.

Prototype Requirements

Early phase requirements to test ideas such as a feasibility study or prototype.

Quality Requirements

Specifications of quality.

Reporting

Requirements for regular reports, analytics or visualization of information.

Safety

Requirements related to health and safety may be provided by an expert in the field.

Scalability

A specification of how a product, service or process will scale.

Service Level

A detailed specification of the operational parameters of a service.

Stakeholder Requirements

Requirements are typically gathered from stakeholders by a business analyst who then resolves issues and inconsistencies to arrive at a unified requirements document.

Standards And Certifications

A requirement to adhere to a standard or achieve a certification.

Sustainability

Requirements to use low impact materials or to apply sustainable design practices.

Training And Development

Requirements for training of users and support functions. Particularly applies to the launch of new processes and complex tools such as systems and equipment.