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Updates to WSJF

NEWS SAFE FRAMEWORK UPDATES

December 15, 2022 Leave A Comment By Steve Mayner

In the spirit of relentless improvement, the Framework team at Scaled Agile releases
periodic improvements to the articles in SAFe. If you have been following this blog,
you will have seen many such updates over the course of 2022. Today we are excited
to announce our next improvement to SAFe guidance: a much-improved discussion of
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF).

WSJF is a powerful and practical tool in SAFe that supports Principle #1 – Take an

Economic View, built on the concepts from Don Reinertsen’s book Principles of
Product Development Flow. WSJF in SAFe helps ARTs, Solution Trains, and Portfolios
quickly make difficult and complex prioritization decisions using relative estimation to
calculate the Cost of Delay for Features, Capabilities, and Epics.

Cost of Delay
(relative)
WSJF = Job Size
(relative)
© Scaled Agile, Inc.

Figure 4. A formula for relative WSJF

In this update to WSJF in SAFe 5.1, we have made changes based on customer
feedback to improve clarity. We have also added new guidance, such as where and
when WSJF is applicable (and when it is less effective).We hope you enjoy this
refreshed discussion of WSJF and find that it helps your understanding of this
powerful technique!

—Be SAFe!

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