Service Thinking > Guidance > Budget and Headcount
Guidance Notes
Teams and Organisations should have a single budget and headcount spanning Change and Run, forecast out into the future, with the ability to flex these within agreed delegated limits as required.
This Budget & Headcount should:
- Be agreed in the short to medium term, and then candidate or indicative beyond this.
- Be broken down into Change and Run (CapEx and OpEx for Budgets), and then by major change initiative (plus Innovation and small change / continuous improvement) for Change and by each sub-Organisation or Team for Run.
- Track where Budget and Headcount has come from and how it’s being used or allocated.
- Support the ability for the Team or Organisation to flex it’s Budget & Headcount across major change initiatives (for Change) or sub-Organisations or Teams (for Run) within a set of agreed delegated limits.
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Further Reading
Don’t take our word for it. If you’re interested in going deeper and exploring more, The Index has community curated lists of further reading, including on Agile Budgeting