36 pages MS Word. Use this Vision template to collect, analyze, and define the high-level needs and features of your new product or service.

Purpose of Vision Document

The purpose of the Vision template is to describe the business opportunity that this product/service addresses. Use this section in your Vision template to demonstrate your understanding of the customer’s current environment and its desired future state.

Table of Contents

The table of contents of the Vision template is as follows:

1 Introduction

1.1 Purpose

1.2 Scope

1.3 Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations

1.4 References

1.5 Document structure

2 Product positions

2.1 Business opportunity

2.2 Problem statement

2.3 Product position statement

2.4 Benefits analysis

2.5 Customer requirements

2.6 Customer satisfaction

3 Vision statement

3.1 Major features

3.2 Assumptions

4 Stakeholder and user descriptions

4.1 Market demographics

4.2 Stakeholder summary

4.3 User summary

4.4 User environment

4.5 Stakeholder profiles

4.6 <stakeholder name>

4.7 User profiles

4.8 User profiles

4.9 Stakeholder or user needs

4.10 Alternatives and competition

4.11 Requirements

5 Scope

5.1 Feature/function list

5.2 Out of scope

5.3 Version release

5.4 Acceptance criteria

5.5 Operational criteria

6 Product overview

6.1 Product perspective

6.2 Summary of capabilities

6.3 Assumptions and dependencies

6.4 Cost and pricing

6.5 Licensing and installation

7 Product features

7.1 Architectural design strategy

7.2 Technical design strategy

7.3 <Feature #1>

7.4 <Feature #2>

7.5 <Feature #3>

8 Constraints

9 Quality ranges

10 Priority

11 Other requirements

11.1 Applicable standards

11.2 System requirements

11.3 Performance requirements

11.4 Environmental requirements

12 Documentation requirements

12.1 User guide

12.2 Online help

12.3 Installation guides, configuration, and read me file

12.4 Labeling and packaging

13 Feature #1 attributes

13.1 a.1 Status

13.2 a.2 Benefit

13.3 a.3 Effort

13.4 a.4 Risk

13.5 a.5 Stability

13.6 a.6 Target release

13.7 a.7 Assigned to

13.8 a.8 Reason

Contents and Format

The template pack includes the following documents:

• Vision Template - 36 pages MS Word

Product Specifications

File Format: The template is in Microsoft Word (.docx) format.

Opening the Files: You don’t need any special software to unzip the files. To unzip the files, right click on it, then select Extract, and save it to your computer.

Getting Started: Depending on your MS Office settings, the files may say Read Only when you open them. If this occurs, click File, Save As and save the files. There are no security settings on any of the files.

Images: All of the images in the templates are copyright free.