Do you feel like your company does a good job budgeting for projects or are you constantly having overages and have to request additional funds? For me, it is the latter and it really slows projects down sometimes.

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Oh boy, that's a really interesting question. In my experience, the proposed budgets are always too low and need to be revised at some point. And that often entails a battle. I know the people who are directly involved in those budget squabbles go through a lot of stress over it. I suppose there's something to be said for optimism when setting goals, but at some point expecting things to come in under budget is just unrealistic.

Yea this is my experience as well.

Not in my current role but in a former role yes this happened all the time and sometimes upper management people would try and blame it on working level people as reason for going over budget and that used to cause serious tension in the office.

Ugh, so annoying!

We’ve historical underspent on projects and the company has asked us to be less conservative so that we can make sure to not have left over funds and miss out on funding other good projects

Interesting!

I propose the budget I need for my projects. If there are any issues, they are on me and I will need to explain them to the team (corporate and internal). It's a lot easier to explain an overage than to ask for more funds.

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