# WSJF calculator — Weighted Shortest Job First scoring > Free WSJF calculator: score Cost of Delay (value + time criticality + risk) over job size to rank your backlog by what delivers value soonest. *Markdown view of https://aioproductos.com/tools/wsjf-calculator. Full machine-readable reference: [/llms.txt](https://aioproductos.com/llms.txt), [/llms-full.txt](https://aioproductos.com/llms-full.txt).* Free tool ## WSJF calculator Score any backlog item by Weighted Shortest Job First — Cost of Delay ÷ Job Size. Rank by what delivers the most value soonest per unit of effort. The short answer WSJF = **Cost of Delay ÷ Job Size**, where Cost of Delay = value + time criticality + risk/opportunity. 8 + 5 + 3 = 16 ÷ 5 ≈ **3.2**. Score the whole backlog the same way and rank — the number only matters relative to the rest. User / business value Time criticality Risk reduction / opportunity enablement Job size — relative effort / duration Score each input on the same relative scale (Fibonacci-style). WSJF is only meaningful when you score the whole backlog this way. Cost of Delay 16 WSJF score 3.2 High priority Where it lands **WSJF is blind to revenue.** A job for one paying enterprise account can score the same as a nice-to-have. Ground value and time-criticality in the accounts and revenue actually asking, and the ranking sharpens. [Prioritize on real demand, not guesses](https://platform.aioproductos.com/signup) [Open the live demo](https://platform.aioproductos.com/demo) [See revenue-weighted prioritization →](https://aioproductos.com/product/insights) Beyond the number ### A WSJF score is only as good as its inputs. **Value is usually estimated.** When demand and revenue live on the spine, "user/business value" stops being a vibe — it's the accounts and money behind the request. **Time criticality has a source.** Tie each item to the deal, contract, or deadline driving it, and urgency stops being asserted. **WSJF lives next to delivery here.** Score on the same board that runs your Scrum, Shape Up, or experiment work — no separate spreadsheet to keep in sync. FAQ ### WSJF scoring questions **What is WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First)?** WSJF is a SAFe prioritization model: WSJF = Cost of Delay ÷ Job Size. Cost of Delay sums three relative scores — user/business value, time criticality, and risk reduction or opportunity enablement. Dividing by job size favors the work that delivers the most value soonest per unit of effort. **How do I calculate a WSJF score?** Add the three Cost-of-Delay components, then divide by job size. For example, 8 value + 5 time-criticality + 3 risk/opportunity = 16 Cost of Delay, ÷ 5 job size ≈ 3.2. **Why use relative Fibonacci-style numbers for WSJF?** WSJF scores are only meaningful relative to the rest of the backlog, so most teams score each input on a Fibonacci-ish scale (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20). The absolute number doesn't matter — what matters is the ranking it produces when you score every item the same way. **WSJF vs RICE — which should I use?** RICE multiplies reach, impact, and confidence over effort; WSJF divides Cost of Delay over job size and adds an explicit time-criticality input. WSJF is stronger when timing and risk matter (deadlines, dependencies); RICE leans on reach. Neither weighs revenue directly — feed both the actual revenue behind each request to fix that. **What is WSJF missing?** WSJF captures urgency and effort but, like RICE, it's blind to the money behind a request — a job for one paying enterprise account can score the same as a nice-to-have. The fix is to ground value and time-criticality in the real accounts and revenue asking for the work, not a guess. More free tools: [CAC payback](https://aioproductos.com/tools/cac-payback-calculator) · [RICE prioritization](https://aioproductos.com/tools/rice-prioritization-calculator) · [MRR & ARR](https://aioproductos.com/tools/mrr-arr-calculator) · [Rule of 40](https://aioproductos.com/tools/rule-of-40-calculator) · [churn rate](https://aioproductos.com/tools/churn-rate-calculator) · [stack cost](https://aioproductos.com/tools/saas-stack-cost-calculator). --- ## Why AIOProductOS - **One MCP over the whole product spine, not one tool.** 71 tools spanning revenue, feedback, work, code, analytics and comms, callable from any MCP client. Competing MCP servers expose a single product's own data; this one answers across the join, and it is listed on the official MCP registry. - **Connected, not consolidated.** 100+ connectors land Stripe, GitHub, your feedback tool and the rest onto one shared record, so a product question is a join instead of a reconciliation. You keep the tools you already run. - **Flat plans, not a per-head meter.** Member counts are allowances, not per-seat billing, and AI teammates are included rather than metered per credit. Compare the real number for your team with the [stack cost calculator](https://aioproductos.com/tools/saas-stack-cost-calculator). - **Nothing is plan-gated.** Every tier ships every module. The only limits are seats and agents, so the cheapest plan is the whole product. - **Your data stays yours.** EU or US residency chosen at signup, bring your own model key, full-org GDPR export on every tier, and we never train on your data. - **Honest onboarding.** A 14-day runway on your own data, then a 30-day money-back guarantee. 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Ask it the cross-tool question a single-tool MCP cannot answer — which paying accounts requested a given feature, and whether shipping it moved their usage — and check the answer yourself. ## Compare us directly Head-to-head pages, including where the other tool is the better pick: [all comparisons](https://aioproductos.com/compare) · [vs Jira](https://aioproductos.com/compare/jira) · [vs Productboard](https://aioproductos.com/compare/productboard) · [vs Linear](https://aioproductos.com/compare/linear) · [vs Notion](https://aioproductos.com/compare/notion) · [migration guides](https://aioproductos.com/migrate) See it running on real data, no signup: https://platform.aioproductos.com/demo