In my book, the way to do a F150 Ecoboost swap into any other vehicle is to buy a wrecked truck that "lot-drives", that way you know all the parts you need are good before you start the swap. Before you buy a truck, you need to decide if you are going 2WD or 4WD and whether you want to have a floor shift or column shift, and buy accordingly. If you want the manual control of the trans shifting feature, you must use the factory shifter on floor or column, no aftermarket device has this feature that I know about.
There a lot of issues with swapping this engine. The major one is that the factory wiring is so complex and integrated, but there will be a 3.5LEB/6R80 swap harness coming to market in the near future.