Limited resources often drive more innovative thinking and creativity, focus at the challenge at hand and not limited resources, reaching out to external parties to collaborate can also be explored to mitigate the limitations in resources.

When facing limited resources in engineering projects, focus on driving innovation by prioritizing high-impact ideas. Encourage creative problem-solving within the constraints by fostering a culture of collaboration and experimentation. Leverage existing resources more efficiently by reusing code, tools, or processes, and explore open-source solutions to fill gaps. Implement agile methodologies to iterate quickly and test innovative ideas on a smaller scale. Encourage cross-functional collaboration to bring fresh perspectives. Finally, clearly communicate the value of innovation to stakeholders, ensuring their support even with limited resources, and gradually build momentum for larger innovations.

Having limited resources is in many ways help team go for innovative solutions. As we say necessity is the mother of invention, same goes with need to do more with less. Having less space calls for an optimised layout and placing of equipment and interfacing. We employ frugal engineering principles to acheive the goal. Similarly, less budget calls for cost reduction and teams look to explore ways to improve efficiency. Moreover, limited Human resource also bring forth the pertinent question of redeployment of people across functions and aim to have multitasking and cross-functional character in the team working. Another aspect of limited time set forth a race to optimise the critical path of the project and encourage concurrent working.

Determine the critical paths of the project and strategize to focus resources. Create cross functional team to drive the project milestones. Determine weak points of the project where critical resources are required and allocate based on this assessment, proactively as the needs evolve.

Starting a project without a proper scope or idea of cost is a recipe for a poor job. The exception to this is an emergency breakdown or the like. I do agree having a limited budget will help focus minds and hopefully achieve some value engineering. Where practical salvaging usable components might help but not at the cost of future maintenance expenditure, Basically if you haven't got the cash, a cleare cost saving, or future gains in sales don't do it. Apologies for being negative but I have seen too many such projects costing more than there worth