# Functional Specification

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/functional-specification

A functional specification is a formal document that describes in detail how a software system or feature should work from an external, user-facing perspective, including inputs, outputs, workflows, and business rules. Product managers, business analysts, and technical writers create these to align stakeholders and give developers a clear reference before implementation begins. It typically follows requirements gathering and precedes technical or design specifications.

Related skills: [Wireframing](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/wireframing), [Functional Requirement](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/functional-requirement)

## Open roles requiring Functional Specification (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.