Should You Build It, Or Just Buy It?

Custom software is usually the wrong answer, until it is clearly the right one. This worksheet is built to talk you out of building, and to be clear when it cannot.

• The four signals that you have genuinely outgrown off-the-shelf, scored
• A calculator that prices what your current workaround already costs each year
• Five questions to take into a vendor demo that expose the gap you would live with
• What to budget for beyond the build itself, which is where projects actually fail
• How to scope a build so it ships in weeks rather than quarters