Cost of Delay
What waiting costs / week
Each release carries a per-week price for staying in the queue, so delay stops being abstract and starts being a number you can weigh.
Flow economics & Lean Budgeting
Price the queue. Then ship in the right order.
Cost of Delay, WSJF, Lean Budgeting Money Band capacity, and CAPEX/OPEX, computed on the actual work record in the coming-soon Business plan. Rank releases by what waiting truly costs, track rolling spend and expense receipts, and defend the sequence with a number.
economics · cost of delay
Decision summary
delay / week200
total delay cost400
economic priority66.67
confidenceMedium
Ranked by economic priority
- 1Growth Alpha66.67
- 2Launch Beta41.40
- 3Retention Patch22.75
Cost of Delay, ranked
Each release is priced by what its wait costs per week; the highest economic priority settles to the top.
Dashboards aren't economics
Defend 'which release first?' with a number.
Monday and Asana show you charts. ScrumDo computes Reinertsen-style Cost of Delay, WSJF, and Money Band rolling capacity on the work itself, so sequence is an economic decision, not the loudest voice in the room.
WSJF & Money Band
Value ÷ duration & capacity
Weighted Shortest Job First optimizes delivery order while Money Band tracks rolling capacity (Total Capital − Committed − Delay Exposure).
CAPEX, OPEX & Receipts
Review-ready spend
Capital classification, labor rates, and uploaded expense receipts roll up from the work itself, so finance and delivery share the same record.
Why it's different
Why this beats a reporting dashboard.
Real economics
Cost of Delay on the work itself
Monday and Asana visualize status. ScrumDo prices each release's wait per week and ranks by WSJF, with economics on the work itself instead of in a separate presentation.
Defensible
Sequence by number, not volume
Economic priority decides what ships first, so 'which release?' stops being whoever argues hardest.
Review-ready
Capital & expenses that survive finance
CAPEX/OPEX classification, labor cost, and native expense receipts roll up per epic, keeping budget against spend reviewable.
Proof
Capabilities, stated plainly.
Built for portfolio review
Money BandExpense receiptsCAPEX/OPEXCost of DelayWSJFRelease tradeoffs
It doesn't stop there.
Release planning
Keep economic priority near the commitment
Use release context, dependencies, and readiness gaps beside Cost of Delay so the sequence reflects the work that can actually ship.
See how →Customer stories
Keep customer meaning near value decisions
Use self-interpreted customer stories to ground the value side of WSJF without stripping away the context that made the signal meaningful.
See how →Stop guessing the order. Price it.
On Business, put Cost of Delay, WSJF, and CAPEX/OPEX on the actual work, rank the queue by what waiting costs, and defend the sequence with reviewable context.