{"id":3981,"date":"2018-03-12T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T07:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2018-03-15T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T10:35:42","slug":"weighed-shortest-job-first-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/weighed-shortest-job-first-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighed Shortest Job First | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Definition<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weighted Shortest Job First is used as a prioritization model that is deployed to sequence the jobs adequately, to produce the maximum economic benefit. Job sequencing can be an important factor in flow-based systems, where they can produce exceptional results. \u00a0Relative CoD and Job Size is calculated, and WSJF is implemented to prioritize backlogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking of backlogs, WSJF is constantly used at Program Increment boundaries to update them, based on factors like: User and Business Value, Time Factors, Risk, Opportunity Enablement, and Effort. WSJF also tends to ignore sunk costs, a fundamental Lean Economics principle. When applied in SAFe, the model supports additional principles of Product Development low, include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take an economic view<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ignore sunk costs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make continuous financial choices<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decentralize decision making<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quantify the cost of delay<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Further Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0&#8220;Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development&#8221;(book), by Donald Reinertsen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition Weighted Shortest Job First is used as a prioritization model that is deployed to sequence the jobs adequately, to produce the maximum economic benefit. Job sequencing can be an important factor in flow-based systems, where they can produce exceptional results. \u00a0Relative CoD and Job Size is calculated, and WSJF is implemented to prioritize backlogs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[644,643,642,105,18,647,646,645],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-business-value","tag-decentralize","tag-economic-benefit","tag-glossary","tag-innoroo","tag-lean-economics","tag-opportunity-enablement","tag-risk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Weighted-shortest-Job-First.png?fit=3125%2C1709","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-12d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4333,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/4333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}