Cisco Network Design Solutions for Small-Medium Businesses

Step 1: Identifying Stakeholder Requirements

Before proceeding with a discussion of how to identify stakeholder requirements, it's important to understand who the stakeholders are and why, in the process of designing a network solution, you should invest time in identifying their requirements. The term stakeholder is defined in different ways, but a certain commonality exists among the definitions. From a project management perspective, according to Wideman's Glossary of Comparative Project Management Terms (http://www.maxwideman.com/pmglossary), stakeholders are “people or organizations that have a vested interest in the environment, performance, and/or outcome of the project.” From a business perspective, stakeholders can be defined as groups ...