Ask HN: What do you use to write requirements/specs?

2 pointsrpwelton2 comments

Currently I use a combination of Word, Excel and Visio to create requirement or spec docs. While it ultimately gets the job done, there has to be something better out there.

What do you use? Interested in free, open source and paid solutions.

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We use mediawiki, and each client gets their own wiki site.

I set them up so the client only had read access to the main content, buy has write access to the talk pages.

This allows us to publish version controlled specs, with closely tied discussions (on the talk page) for each spec.

The biggest problem with this though is getting the clients to edit the talk page correctly.

confluence + gliffy. this combo has everything for a logical spec with great authorisation levels. one space / project.

with atlassians 10$ move its almost free for small teams.

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