Stakeholder Requirements
Every design serves someone. This tool captures who has a stake in the work, what each of them actually needs, and which of those needs comes first.
Aim
The aim of this tool is to manage and prioritize the needs of various organizational stakeholders involved in design initiatives.
Results
The tool captures the key project stakeholders and their needs or requirements. The end result is a table listing the prioritized requirements of key stakeholders.
Pro Tips
- Your requirements must be specific enough to apply to resources and prioritize.
- Ask for specifics when you're interviewing stakeholders or articulating requirements — don't accept generalities.
- Ask questions like: "Who is impacted by the organization or process?" "Who places requirements on the org or process?" "Who are the recipients of the value created by the work?"
- To help you prioritize requirements, try these questions: "Given the requirements, how would each stakeholder force rank them?" "Who does each stakeholder compare us with? Why?" "What are our ideal requirements of stakeholders?"