What Do You Do When You Don’t Have a Budget?

The $0 Strategy: How to execute when the "Tools" don't exist. "Fix it, but don't spend anything." It’s the most common directive in the corporate machine, yet the one least documented in the training manuals. In this session of The Missing Manual, Jenny Cotie Kangas and Julia Levy deconstruct the mechanics of building in an under-resourced vacuum. This isn't about "visionary leadership"; it’s about the raw tradecraft of making something out of nothing. Jenny and Julia cover: Resource Scavenging: Identifying "hidden" assets and underutilized tech already sitting in your stack that can solve your problem for free. The Capital of Influence: How to "trade" favors and cross-functional support when you don't have a checkbook to lean on. Scope vs. Scarcity: The art of creating a high-impact "Minimum Viable Result" that proves the concept and forces the budget to follow. This is documentation for the practitioners who don't wait for a purchase order to start solving the problem. No budget. No scripts. Just the work.