Are you facing pressure to reduce your project budget?
Then let me tell you the options you have, to respond.
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I’m seeing it in my own business and I am sure you’re seeing it in yours.
Why?
And all this will inevitably put pressure on your project budget. Resources will diminish, and scrutiny will increase. The penalties for over-runs, from attention to blame, will rise.
As soon as I hear the word cost, three others come into my mind:
If you need to manage cost more tightly, your levers are in the other three.
To reduce your project budget, you can:
A belligerent ‘no’ will mark you as inflexible, unsure of yourself, or lacking imagination. Instead, take a two-step approach. Offer choices for how to reduce your budget.
You will always want to replace it with ‘we can, if…’
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Pressure to Reduce Your Project Budget | Video Click To TweetDr Mike Clayton is one of the most successful and in-demand project management trainers in the UK. He is author of 14 best-selling books, including four about project management. He is also a prolific blogger and contributor to ProjectManager.com and Project, the journal of the Association for Project Management. Between 1990 and 2002, Mike was a successful project manager, leading large project teams and delivering complex projects. In 2016, Mike launched OnlinePMCourses.
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