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How CTOs Use Cost of Delay to Prioritize Work
When two projects compete for the same engineering team, how does a CTO decide which one goes first? Cost of delay — a prioritization framework from Don Reinertsen's Lean product development — turns that gut-wrenching choice into a math problem. In this episode, Lucas and Luna walk through a real scenario at a fictional SaaS company called DataSync, where the CTO had to pick between a new integration worth $500,000 in annual recurring revenue and a database migration that would reduce future incident response time by 60%. Using cost of delay, they calculate the urgency of each option, factor…
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