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Shift-Left Investment Judge

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About This MicroSim

The learner will judge, for each of six AI investment options, whether to fund it using the rule that savings from moving defects to an earlier phase must be at least twice the cost. Evaluate-level work is judgment against a criterion. Having to estimate whether savings reach twice the cost, with an option exactly at the boundary, makes the learner apply the criterion rather than the size of the headline saving.

This MicroSim belongs to the chapter AI-Assisted Coding Across the SDLC. It uses JavaScript with the shared quiz kit in sims/shared-libs/. All data in it is illustrative.

How to Use

  1. Read the case and commit an answer before any result is shown.
  2. Press Check (or Commit). The sim shows whether the answer is correct and explains why.
  3. A wrong answer gets one more attempt; after the second miss the answer is shown.
  4. After the last item an exploration panel unlocks. It is practice only and is not scored.

Iframe Embed Code

You can add this MicroSim to any web page by adding this to your HTML:

<iframe src="https://Kschuman-aon.github.io/genai-roi/sims/shift-left-investment-judge/main.html"
        height="304px"
        width="100%"
        scrolling="no"></iframe>

Lesson Plan

Audience

Professionals and graduate students learning to estimate and defend the cost and return of generative AI.

Duration

10-15 minutes

Bloom's Taxonomy

Evaluate (judge)

Prerequisites

the defect fix costs by phase, shift-left, benefit-cost ratio

Activities

  1. Predict (5-10 min): work through the committed challenges before any answer is revealed.
  2. Explore (5 min): use the controls unlocked after the last challenge to see how each input changes the result.

Assessment

For each of six options the learner commits "Fund" or "Do not fund" before the ratio is shown. A verdict is correct when it matches the Content table. Mastery is 5 of 6 correct on the first attempt. Exploration is not evidence.

Common Misconceptions

(1) The option that moves the most defects is the best. (2) Any positive saving justifies funding. (3) The phase the defect moves to does not matter.