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Buy/Build/Partner Evaluation
Have you ever created a visualization that shows the true development cost and lost opportunities compared to (vs) partnering for quick time to market? Put another way, is there an economics based tool that will show that, given a product of equal features and functionality, which is better to do, build or partner/buy?
The best visualization of the cost of doing it yourself versus another other choice is to show the impact on the product roadmap.
Create a diagram of everything you hope to accomplish in 2008-2010. The time-to-market on any items that you could purchase would impact the roadmap. Any custom work for deal-of-the-day would precede anything you decided to do in the roadmap. The roadmap shows our possibilities and the ramifications of doing it internally.
Answered by Steve Johnson
