Inputs from systems you already run
Story points and status come from the affected work items in your tracker. Day rates are set per role by your organisation. Multipliers by ticket status are configured once and versioned.
Price
A cost figure you can trace back to the ticket
When a definition changes after work has been built on it, SynkBase calculates what that rework costs from your own delivery data. Every number shows its inputs.
In development with design partnersHow the figure is built
- Step 1Affected work itemsTaken from the impact graph, with points and status.
- Step 2Points to daysStory points times hours per point, divided by the working day.
- Step 3Days to costEffort days times the day rate of the role doing the work.
- Step 4Status multiplierWork already in progress or released costs more to redo.
- Step 5Rework costSummed per change, with every ticket and input listed.
Nobody knows what the last change cost
Teams argue about whether a definition change is worth controlling because nobody can say what the last one cost. Without a figure, governance loses every prioritisation meeting.
A model-generated estimate does not survive that meeting. A finance director asks where the number came from, and "the AI said so" ends the conversation.
How the calculation works
Deterministic arithmetic
The same inputs always give the same result. No language model produces the figure. AI suggestions go to a review queue as proposals and cannot change a number.
Missing estimates are flagged
A work item with no estimate is listed as unpriced, and the total shows how many items it leaves out.
Every figure opens up
Click a total and you see each ticket, its points, the rate and the multiplier used. Export it as it stands for a review or an audit file.
The arithmetic
Summed across every affected ticket. Each total links to the tickets and inputs behind it.
effort = 5 story points × 6 h / point ÷ 8 h / day = 3.75 days
base = 3.75 days × €720 role day rate = €2,700
rework = €2,700 × 1.5 status multiplier = €4,050
Points and status come from the ticket. Hours per point, day rates and status multipliers are set by your organisation and versioned, so a figure calculated last quarter can be recalculated exactly.