Phase 2

Sort

2.1 Sort

2.1.1 Quick Sort—Filter Out

The quick sort phase focuses on eliminating candidates from consideration. For some projects, this may be combined with the next phase, but for the sake of simplicity, they are separate in this book. As you know what features are required, you can do a very quick, rough sort by throwing out all candidates that do not include all of your required features. Because you’ve kept the feature lists of each option, this should be extremely fast. You should be able to complete the quick sort in less than an hour.

It is also common to wind up with no vendors or a very small set of vendors that meet your requirements. If this occurs, it is ...

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