Decide how you will link e-messaging servers inside your organization 10. Decide how you will link your organization to external e-messaging systems 11. Validate and optimize your design 12. As you move through the twelve steps, remember that designing an e-messaging system is not a linear process. You will find yourself coming back to each step to gather new information, to reinterpret information you have already gathered and to gather even more information based on those reinterpretations.
New information is likely to lead to design chang es and further iterations.
Even after you have fully implemented your e-messaging system, you will come back to steps in the design process as problems arise or your organization changes. Within reason, the more iterations you go through, the better your final design will be. However, take care not to use iteration as a route to procrastination. Whatever you do, pick an e-messaging system and start running it as soon as you can, if only in a limited test environment. Just subscribe to our IT Pro Downloads Newsletter, and we'll send you a free, weekly collection of the hottest IT shareware, freeware, and demoware.