Assess team readiness for a new GCP project, produce a skills-gap plan that supports cost-optimization; team has deployed two GCP projects so far. What should you do?

The team has prior GCP experience, indicating a foundation to build upon. Budgeting training and creating a role-based certification roadmap directly addresses skills gaps by upskilling the existing team, which is a cost-effective and sustainable approach for long-term project success and cost optimization. This empowers the current team rather than relying solely on external resources. Budgeting training and setting a project deadline is incomplete; it doesn't specify how the training will address skills gaps effectively. Hiring external consultants, while an option, is generally more expensive and doesn't build internal capabilities, which goes against the spirit of cost optimization when an existing team can be upskilled. Hiring consultants with a roadmap is still less ideal than empowering the existing team.