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Cost of delay: how to calculate it

Eric Graves - 03/5/23 04:13 PM

Here is a simple formula for quickly estimating Cost of Delay: the profit lost per-month of delay.

Total COD = Lost Month Cost + Peak Reduction Cost.

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7 Lean Principles of Lean Project Management

Elyssa Pallai - 03/6/19 06:26 PM

Projects are late one day at a time. So, ask yourself, do you and your team know the number one priority for today? Why does speed matter? Because...

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Best Books on Lean, Agile and Theory of Constraints

Elyssa Pallai - 02/28/19 03:35 PM

Here is our combined list of the three topic areas. More details are below.

  • Managing the Design Factory, by Donald G. Reinertsen
  • The Principles of...
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7 Benefits of Calculating the Cost of Delay

Elyssa Pallai - 02/12/19 04:53 PM

About 10 years ago, very few companies that we talked to knew what Cost of Delay was, much less what their own number was for any of their products....

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Top 5 Lean and Agile Blog Posts of 2019

Elyssa Pallai - 01/15/19 03:00 PM

In our experience, engineers like to stretch their minds beyond the limits of what's possible, solving problems and bringing ideas to life. In fact,...

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8 Ways to Decrease Risk in Project Decisions

Eric Graves - 01/8/19 06:30 PM

So how do you increase certainty in project decisions. In part we can increase certainty by increasing the accuracy of our impact estimates. 

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Cost of Delay Project Model Examples

Eric Graves - 11/27/18 06:43 PM

Project Modeling: Project Management Decisions Based on Profit

How do you make project decisions based on their impact on profit? Here are some...

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Cost of Delay and Project Modeling

Eric Graves - 11/20/18 04:39 PM

In order to make project decisions such as whether or not to add a new feature, we need an economic model. Cost of Delay is one input into this...

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Cost of Delay: How to Calculate It - Free Excel spreadsheet

David Paulson - 09/18/18 07:01 PM

The goal of developing new products is profit. And even though we intuitively know it's important to get to market sooner, do you really understand...

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Playbook Knowledge Center: Cost of Delay

Elyssa Pallai - 11/7/17 05:05 PM

At PLAYBOOK it's our mission to help you change the world faster! So, we have a number of free resources available on our website. Many of you have...

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Architectural Runway and WSJF

Eric Graves - 10/24/17 03:33 PM

What is an architectural runway?

Designing a new product with an architectural runway means supporting the business' ability to "land" new features...

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Don Reinertsen: Ideas That May Change Your Approach To Product Development

Elyssa Pallai - 10/17/17 04:41 PM

Got time to read a book? Lately, neither do I. That's why I was very excited to find these 8 short video interviews with Don Reinertsen. In minutes,...

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Best Lean Books: Cost of delay and project economic modeling

Elyssa Pallai - 06/20/17 03:39 PM

Welcome to our Top Lean Reads series of posts. In this week's post, we share our top books on cost of delay and project economic modeling. So,...

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14 Tips for Calculating Cost of Delay

Eric Graves - 03/9/17 06:30 PM

14 tips for calculating cost of delay. Implementing cost of delay and ultimately creating a project economic model for basing project decisions on is...

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Cost of delay: Calculating economic value to increase profit (Part 7)

Eric Graves - 02/28/17 07:26 PM

This is Part 7 in a series of posts discussing Cost of Delay and making objective decisions in new product development, based on economic analysis.

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What is Cost of Delay?

Elyssa Pallai - 02/28/17 05:15 PM

What is Cost of Delay?

The Cost of Delay is the amount of money it will cost the company if a product launch is delayed. It’s a metric you need to...
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Cost of Delay - What it is, how to calculate it

Elyssa Pallai - 09/2/16 05:00 PM

What is cost of delay? Understanding Cost of Delay is the key to making product development decisions based on economic loss or gain. In fact, the...

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PLAYBOOK's Lean Product Development Links: December 11th

Elyssa Pallai - 12/11/15 10:47 PM

Welcome to PLAYBOOK’s blog series: Three Lean Product Development Links. This week we cut straight to the chase with the three most popular blog...

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Cost of Delay and Strategic Advantage

Eric Graves - 02/1/14 09:26 PM

Uncertainty in Product Development

Gaining a strategic advantage through statistics and mathematical analysis is changing the game of product...

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