Cost-of-delay calculator

What is a stalled programme
actually costing you?

Move two sliders and see the direct carrying cost of a delay — per week, per month, and so far. No email, nothing stored — it runs in your browser. A rough number beats the vague feeling that “it’s expensive.”

Team, vendors and infrastructure — roughly what a month of this programme costs.
DKK 800,000
DKK 100kDKK 6M
How long it has been slipping, or how long past the plan it now is.
6 months
124
If a Transitional Service Agreement is running, add its monthly cost. Otherwise leave at zero.
DKK 0
DKK 0DKK 3M
Burned so far
DKK 4,800,000
across 6 months of delay
Every further week you waitDKK 185,000
Every further monthDKK 800,000
Another quarter of driftDKK 2,400,000

And this is the floor.

This only counts the direct carrying cost — the money the programme spends while it isn’t delivering. It doesn’t count the expensive, invisible things: the benefits case sliding to the right, the good people who quietly start looking, the board trust that’s hard to rebuild, and — where a regulatory date has passed — the exposure that has nothing to do with run cost. The real number is always higher than the slider.

An illustration, not a business case. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

The cheapest week is this one

Every week of drift is the same price.

The number stops climbing the day the programme starts moving again. That’s the part I’m brought in for — and here’s exactly how I’d take the first 90 days.

See the turnaround playbook →