skipuleggur

Skipuleggur is an Icelandic noun meaning “one who schedules.” It can refer to a person who plans and coordinates tasks and events, or to a system or process that organizes activities in time. The term is derived from skipuleggja, meaning to arrange, plan or schedule.

In everyday language, skipuleggur describes event coordinators, project managers, or anyone who manages calendars, timelines and itineraries. It is commonly used in workplaces, schools and travel planning to indicate the role of organizing ahead of time.

In computing and operations contexts, the related noun skipuleggjari (the scheduler) is used to refer to programs or components that allocate time or resources to tasks, determine execution order, and affect throughput and latency. Examples include CPU schedulers in operating systems and job schedulers in batch processing or workflow systems. Terminology varies by author, and some writers may use different Icelandic forms for the same idea.

See also: skipuleggja; skipuleggjari; dagatal; verkefni.