🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

planejar de trás para frente

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pla.ne.ˈʒaɾ dʒi tɾas ˈpa.ɾa ˈfɾẽ.tʃi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Work-back/ˈwɜːk.bæk/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Precisamos planejar de trás para frente a partir do prazo final."

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To plan a project, schedule, or product development process by starting from a desired future completion date and determining the necessary preceding steps in reverse chronological order.

    "We need to work-back from the product launch date to establish our weekly sprint milestones."
As noun
  1. 1

    A strategic timeline or planning document constructed in reverse order from a target deadline.

    "The marketing team shared a detailed work-back to ensure all assets are ready before the holiday campaign."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the phrasal verb construction 'to work back' combined with the adverbial direction 'back', emerging in late 20th-century corporate and engineering jargon. It evolved from the physical notion of retracing steps to a conceptual planning methodology starting from a future endpoint.

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