Conducting the Interview The usual rules of workplace meetings apply during interviews: plan ahead, arrive early, and ensure that the room is stakeholder prepared and that needed resources are available. Limit the time of the interview stakeholders have other for the benefit of the analyst(s) and stakeholder(s) responsibilities, and the analysts can absorb only so much information at one time. It is better to have several shorter interviews than one long interview. A series of interviews provides an opportunity to absorb the material and then go back to get clarification later.