Functionality {#2} influences:
- Product design, usefulness, look, feel, architecture
- User demands and acceptability
- General product risks, market selection and user type
- Environmental friendliness and product validation
- Documentation, training, service and support
- Compatibility with other products and user environments
- Component and material selection
- Standards, Reliability, Regulatory requirements
- All testing scenarios
- Upgrades, bug correction
- Legal, regulatory and standards requirements
- Installation, training, serviceability
- Consumables, fuel and energy requirements
- End-of-Life requirements and procedures
For example, if a product does not provide appropriate functions for installation, calibration (as required) and bring-up testing, then the product acceptability may suffer.
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2008, Richard M. Haney, CMT Group
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