Episode 77 — Requirements Analysis: business, technical, compliance, and SOW inputs
Requirements analysis appears explicitly in CloudNetX objectives because many scenario answers depend on correctly interpreting stakeholder intent and translating it into design constraints and acceptance outcomes. This episode defines requirements analysis as gathering and organizing business goals, technical realities, compliance obligations, and statement-of-work deliverables into a coherent set of constraints and success criteria. The first paragraph focuses on the categories of input: business priorities that establish risk tolerance and service expectations, technical constraints that describe current architecture and dependencies, compliance drivers that define control requirements and evidence needs, and SOW elements that define what must be delivered, by when, and how success will be measured. It also emphasizes that missing details create assumptions, and that good analysis makes assumptions explicit so designs can be evaluated fairly and risk can be managed deliberately.
