Which job pays off soonest ? Weighted Shortest Job First ranks a backlog by economic urgency — each job's cost of delay divided by the effort to ship it. Small, high-value, time-critical work floats to the top.
Cost of delayWhat it costs you to not have this yet — the value, urgency, and risk you keep paying for every period it waits in the backlog. Detailed Simple
score = (Value + Time criticality + Risk / opportunity) ÷ Job size
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ValueUser-business value: how much the job is worth to customers or the business once it ships. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Time criticalityHow fast the value decays if you wait — a deadline, a market window, or a promise that goes stale. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Risk reduced / opportunityScore it high when the job removes a lot of risk or opens big future options — this is the risk it reduces, not how risky the job itself is. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Job sizeHow big the job is to deliver — duration or effort. It's the denominator, so a smaller job ranks higher for the same cost of delay. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20
ValueUser-business value: how much the job is worth to customers or the business once it ships. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Time criticalityHow fast the value decays if you wait — a deadline, a market window, or a promise that goes stale. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Risk reduced / opportunityScore it high when the job removes a lot of risk or opens big future options — this is the risk it reduces, not how risky the job itself is. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Job sizeHow big the job is to deliver — duration or effort. It's the denominator, so a smaller job ranks higher for the same cost of delay. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20
ValueUser-business value: how much the job is worth to customers or the business once it ships. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Time criticalityHow fast the value decays if you wait — a deadline, a market window, or a promise that goes stale. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Risk reduced / opportunityScore it high when the job removes a lot of risk or opens big future options — this is the risk it reduces, not how risky the job itself is. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20 Job sizeHow big the job is to deliver — duration or effort. It's the denominator, so a smaller job ranks higher for the same cost of delay. 1 2 3 5 8 13 20
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