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Project Management & Agile · Intermediate

Forward Pass

CPM calculation of early start and early finish dates moving from project start to end.

Definition

Early finish = early start + duration (minus 1 if using day-1 convention). When multiple predecessors converge, the successor's early start uses the largest early finish.

Example

Activity B with ES 5 and duration 3 has EF 8 (zero-based convention).

Exam tip

Forward pass takes the maximum at merge points.

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