{"id":461,"date":"2017-02-10T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/?p=461"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:44:19","slug":"the-software-question-build-or-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"The software question: build or buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of whether to find or buy a collaborative tool for your remote team, or to build your own perfect, custom version, will pop up at some point if it hasn&#8217;t already. It&#8217;s a complex question that involves a lot of variables. To save you some time and help you find the right answer for your team, I&#8217;ve created this handy flowchart. Click the image for a printable (and readable, for that matter) larger copy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_462\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Build-or-Buy-flowchart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"size-large wp-image-462\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Build-or-Buy-flowchart-614x640.png\" alt=\"flowchart for deciding whether to build a custom tool or buy an existing one\" width=\"614\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Build-or-Buy-flowchart-614x640.png 614w, https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Build-or-Buy-flowchart-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Build-or-Buy-flowchart-768x801.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Build-or-Buy-flowchart.png 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Build or buy? You decide.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of whether to find or buy a collaborative tool for your remote team, or to build your own perfect, custom version, will pop up at some point if it hasn&#8217;t already. It&#8217;s a complex question that involves a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/?p=461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The software question: build or buy?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,56],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-fun","tag-unsolicited-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gPVL-7r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}