Forward termination
Forward scheduling is a term used in production planning and control and project management . It is the method of planning a project progressively into the future starting from the actual point in time. This is why the term “progressive planning” is also used.
Example:
You want to know when a sequence of activities or a production will be completed. You now plan which activities are required, how long the individual activities will last, what their logical sequence is, which can be parallelized and thus find the completion date.
One result can be that this will be the case before a possible target date, so you still have a buffer until the beginning of the first activities.
If the buffer is negative, i.e. you should have already started to complete on time, there are the following general approaches to the solution:
- Move the finish date to the planned date.
- Strive to streamline the activities on the critical path , for example by increasing the capacities of the service providers as far as possible.
- Revision of the goal (in projects) to the effect that not all planned services are provided.
The logical counterpart to forward scheduling is backward scheduling .