The benefits of metered funding when transposed into a corporate context are many: Scarcity mindset Changes the calculus of who’s to blame if a project fails Allows managing a set of projects as an explicit portfolio, along with portfolio metrics Greatly reduced political burden on teams Greatly enhanced focus on “what do I have to provably learn in order to unlock more funding?” More conducive to cross-functional collaboration (because everyone is paid out of a common budget) Reduces middle manager interference (because no resources are borrowed from the parent company)
