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Cost of Delay

TTool · Cost of Delay

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You're arguing about which feature goes next. Everyone has an opinion. Nobody has a number.

Cost of Delay is Donald Reinertsen's technique for quantifying the economic impact of time on feature value. You ask one question — what does it cost us each week we don't have this? — and let the answer sequence your backlog.

A three-step horizontal flow numbered 01 to 03, labelled frame, score, and compare, each with a short caption about setting a cost-per-week-of-delay figure.
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