{"id":62,"date":"2025-12-24T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:43:07","slug":"who-owns-the-srs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Who should own the SRS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. &#8211; Edward V. Berard<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to address this as it&#8217;s a topic that keeps coming up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SRS contains &#8220;WHAT&#8221; the software is required to satisfy. It is the starting point for software design activities (whether it&#8217;s algorithm, design, user interface, tradeoffs). Just because it has the word &#8220;software&#8221; in it doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s automatically owned by software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a <em>huge<\/em> conflict of interest for the organization to have software function own the SRS for the software they&#8217;re implementing. This is essentially saying the software team will define what to implement, how to implement it, and guide test what to verify&#8230; it&#8217;s a fucking joke so please stop arguing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. &#8211; Edward V. Berard I want to address this as it&#8217;s a topic that keeps coming up. SRS contains &#8220;WHAT&#8221; the software is required to satisfy. It is the starting point for software design activities (whether it&#8217;s algorithm, design, user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyoldengineer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}