>>> navigating all of the offerings, examining their trade-offs
>> the amount of time you're afforded for that exercise better fit neatly inside a very small window of implementation (in other words you're probably not going to do it, or at least do it justice)
Every project I have worked that has done a gap analysis has executed faster and smoother than those that didn't. A gap analysis being a more rigorous approach to an analysis of tradeoffs, solution capabilities vs requirements/existing software, and sometimes scoring/ranking (often with three recommended options depending on client's choices in tradeoffs).
>>> navigating all of the offerings, examining their trade-offs
>> the amount of time you're afforded for that exercise better fit neatly inside a very small window of implementation (in other words you're probably not going to do it, or at least do it justice)
Every project I have worked that has done a gap analysis has executed faster and smoother than those that didn't. A gap analysis being a more rigorous approach to an analysis of tradeoffs, solution capabilities vs requirements/existing software, and sometimes scoring/ranking (often with three recommended options depending on client's choices in tradeoffs).