Stakeholders or the project team will ultimately be the ones that sign off on or approve the design factors that will be the basis for the logical and physical design. These design factors are identified by analyzing the data collected from the stakeholder interviews and the current state assessments.

The stakeholder's consensus and acceptance of the design factors must be obtained before proceeding with the design process. If you skip this step, you will end up wasting your time and the time of the stakeholders, having to rework areas of the design when requirements are missed, changed, added, or removed.

Define the design factors and obtain acceptance from the project team or stakeholders before taking the next steps in the design process.