8Releasing Investments
Competition for R&D capacity based on Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) creates incentives to plan and build smaller Investments. Planning does not begin with a release assumption in the Investment model. Income generation for bundled Investments is delayed until the release date. The first objective is to plan Investments that can be released independently. However, there are instances where Investments will need to be bundled within releases.
This chapter begins with new insights into the opportunity cost of bundled releases based on Net Cost of Delay. Quantifiable Cost of Delay allows us to calculate the income lost by delaying a completed Investment to the release date. Release trains cost the software industry ...
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