Resource Allocation and Budget Management
Core principles and practices for allocating finite resources including budget, headcount, time, equipment, and technology to maximize impact. Covers prioritization frameworks, cost benefit thinking, build versus buy trade offs, budget optimization, scaling budgets across teams and projects, and basic capacity forecasting. Candidates should be able to explain how they decide where to invest, how to balance short term needs versus long term strategic priorities, how to make transparent trade off decisions (speed versus cost, quality versus efficiency), and how to justify budget requests with simple quantitative reasoning and scenarios.
