What does shipping in the wrong order cost?
Two calculators, computed live in your browser: what Cost-of-Delay sequencing saves versus first-come-first-served, and what per-seat AI surcharges add up to at scale. Every figure on this page is recomputed from the inputs you see — nothing is pre-baked.
All currency figures on this page are in USD.
WSJF vs FIFO: the avoidable cost of delay.
One team, four epics, run back to back. A job's delay cost is the weeks until it completes times its Cost of Delay per week. FIFO runs the queue in arrival order; WSJF runs the highest CoD-per-duration ratio first. Same team, same work — the only change is the order.
Portfolio inputs (edit me)
Epic #104 · AI Career & Aptitude Exploration Engine
Epic #107 · Sub-400ms Query Optimizer & Edge Cache
Epic #108 · Cryptographic Consent Vault
Epic #115 · Employer Partner Talent Matching Hub
A WSJF score is a unitless ratio (CoD ÷ duration) used only to order the queue. It is never added to, multiplied with, or shown as a dollar amount.
Avoidable delay cost, this cycle
$100,000
FIFO delay cost $2,220,000 minus WSJF delay cost $2,120,000 over the same 7.5-week cycle — computed live from the inputs on the left.
FIFO schedule · delay cost $2,220,000
- 1#104 AI Career & Aptitude Exploration Enginewk 2$300,000
- 2#107 Sub-400ms Query Optimizer & Edge Cachewk 3$120,000
- 3#108 Cryptographic Consent Vaultwk 6$1,200,000
- 4#115 Employer Partner Talent Matching Hubwk 7.5$600,000
WSJF schedule · delay cost $2,120,000
- 1#104 AI Career & Aptitude Exploration Enginewk 2$300,000
- 2#108 Cryptographic Consent Vaultwk 5$1,000,000
- 3#115 Employer Partner Talent Matching Hubwk 6.5$520,000
- 4#107 Sub-400ms Query Optimizer & Edge Cachewk 7.5$300,000
WSJF is advisory — teams confirm the order. ScrumDo never auto-resequences your backlog; it prices the queue so the sequencing conversation starts from evidence.
What a per-seat AI surcharge costs at scale.
Many tools price AI as a per-seat monthly add-on. ScrumDo's BYOA has no token markup — plan limits are rate limits, not billing. Your agents bring their own keys; ScrumDo governs the work, not the tokens.
Your team
Annual AI add-on avoided
$120,000
500 seats × the monthly add-on you entered × 12 months. With BYOA there is no per-seat AI surcharge to multiply.
Sequence by evidence, not volume.
See how governed agents and portfolio economics run on one operating record — Cost of Delay and WSJF computed on the actual work, and agent runs that end in human sign-off.