If you only quantify one thing, quantify the Cost of Delay. —Don Reinertsen Weighted Shortest Job First In a flow-based system, updating priorities continuously provides the best economic outcomes. In such a flow context, it is job sequencing, rather than theoretical, individual job return on investment, that produces the best result. To that end, SAFe applies WSJF to prioritize backlogs by calculating the relative Cost of Delay (CoD) and job size (a proxy for the.

HI all Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is a technique for backlog prioritization recommended by Dean Leffingwell. The calculation involves measures for User Value, Time Value, Risk Reduction / Opportunity Enablement Value, and Job Size:: WSJF = (User Value + Time Value + RROE Value) / Job Size User Value, Time Value, and RROE Value are meant to be numbers from 1 to 10.