Structured approach to software specification

A method and apparatus to afford a technical application for gathering, storing, tracking, and using requirements, engineering software for those requirements, and releasing finished enterprise software. The method manages an information system organized in multiple layers and forms standardized architectural elements (102) in each layer, connects the elements (102) using collective events (121) for completing a software lifecycle, finds attributes (104) for each of the elements based on technology, and creates a database model (106) based on the standard structural elements. A computer readable medium is described, the medium having computer executable instruction to cause a system perform the method.