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Opportunity cost
What you give up by choosing one thing over another: the value of the best option you didn't take.
You'll hear it as
The opportunity cost of rewriting it is the three features we won't ship this quarter.
Why it matters to you.
Every yes to one project is a no to another. Naming the opportunity cost makes that trade-off visible.
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