Weighted Shortest Job First
If you only quantify one thing, quantify the Cost of Delay.
—Don Reinertsen
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) is a prioritization model used to sequence jobs (e.g., Features, Capabilities, and Epics) so as to produce maximum economic benefit. In SAFe, WSJF is estimated as the Cost of Delay (CoD) divided by job size.
Agile Release Trains (ARTs) provide an ongoing, continuous flow of work that makes up the Enterprise’s incremental development effort. This approach avoids the overhead and delays caused by the start–stop–start nature of traditional projects, where authorizations and phase gates control the program and ...
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