Conducting Large Scale Assessments and Gap Analysis
When you do an assessment and gap analysis you must consider:
- Business Processes (systems, policies, contracts, business rules, procedures, SOPs, etc.),
- Organization (Change, Culture, etc.)
- People (Skills, Training, etc.), and
- Technology (systems, applications, data/databases, interfaces, etc.)
- And must assess the supporting methodologies (program and program, and system development) infrastructure (desktop, servers, communications network, etc.)
Consider that on average, large scale assessments may require 4 - 6 months.