"Without that, we would have had to work this thing backwards," he said.

But like all of his good ideas, it worked out backwards.

He had tried starting in the middle and working backwards.

From there, he would work backwards to establish the action leading up to it.

All you're doing is starting with your conclusion and working backwards.

"It's about developing your vision for the next 5 or 10 years, and working backwards from there to make the numbers add up."

We can also work backwards and find what the relation is from the number.

This is a means of working backwards towards the state you would like to achieve.

We'll run it through the computer and try to work backwards to a name.

This is easiest to understand by working backwards from the output.