Two-week lookahead

Short-term plan

The next two weeks on one page — activity, trade, area, dates, crew, and what each one needs first.

A plan, not a schedule

Every trade on site knows the difference between the program and what is actually happening in the next ten days. The lookahead is the second one, and it is the document that gets read. This keeps it in one place, with a revision on it, so the version on the wall and the version in somebody's pocket are the same.

The constraints column earns the form

A list of activities is a wish. A list of activities with what each one is waiting on is a plan, and the second column is what gets chased at the coordination meeting. Nothing here calculates whether the plan is achievable; that is the meeting's job.

Around it

What two trades have to agree is the trade coordination log. An inspection you need before work can go on is the inspection request log, and what actually happened on the day is the contractor daily report.

A short-term plan you wrote. It is not a project schedule: it holds no logic, calculates no dates, computes no critical path or float, and does not update or replace any program. Everything runs on your device.

Questions people ask

Is this scheduling software?
No, and it is important that it is not. It holds no activity logic, no dependencies, no critical path and no float, calculates no dates and does not reconcile with your project program. It is the sheet a superintendent writes on Thursday and hands out on Monday — which is a different document from the schedule, and the one people actually work to.
Why is there a revision number?
Because a lookahead is reissued every week and the only real failure mode is two people working from two different ones. The revision is yours to set; the tool never generates it.
What goes in “what it needs first”?
The constraint. An inspection that has to happen, material that has to land, another trade that has to be out of the area, a decision somebody owes you. It is the column that turns a wish list into a plan, and it is the reason the sheet is worth handing out.
Can I plan more than two weeks?
Nothing stops you entering dates further out. The tool imposes no window and checks no date against any other — it is a sheet, and the two-week window is a convention rather than a rule it enforces.