A plan is a set of instructions for attaining a given objective.

Plan or PLAN or planning may also refer to:

  • Planning, the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan
  • Planning (cognitive), neurological processes involved in achieving a desired goal

Plan types

  • Automated planning and scheduling, a branch of Artificial Intelligence
  • Business plan
  • Development plan
  • Language planning
  • Marketing plan
  • Military plan
  • Plans (drawings), used for portraying an existing place or object, or for providing instructions to build or fabricate a place or object
  • Archaeological plan
  • Architectural drawing
  • Architectural plan
  • Blueprint
  • Engineering drawing
  • Floor plan
  • Plan view, an orthographic projection
  • Plat
  • Technical drawing
  • Project planning
  • Retirement plan
  • Urban planning

Acronyms

  • PLAN (examination), a standardized test administered by ACT, Inc.
  • People's Liberation Army Navy of the People's Republic of China
  • People's Liberation Army of Namibia
  • Personal Localized Alerting Network, an emergency alert system that uses mobile devices
  • PLANS (non-profit) (People for Legal and Non-Sectarian Schools)

Entertainment

  • "iPlan", a 2023 song by Dlala Thukzin
  • Plan (film), a 2004 Bollywood film
  • Plans (album), an album by the band Death Cab for Cutie
  • "Plans", a song by Bloc Party from Silent Alarm (album)
  • "Plans" (Birds of Tokyo song), 2010
  • Plans (Brandon Lake song), 2025

Places

  • Plan (Huesca), a municipality in Spain
  • Plan, Isère, a commune in France
  • Planá (German: Plan), a town in the Czech Republic
  • Planá (České Budějovice District) (German: Plan), a municipality and village in the Czech Republic

Politics

  • Plans in Mexican history, a declaration of principles announced in conjunction with a rebellion (see also pronunciamiento)

Technology

  • .plan file, a file containing user information used by the Finger protocol
  • Calligra Plan, a project management application
  • Plan (calendar program), for the X Window System
  • PLAN (computer language) (Programming LAnguage for Nineteen-hundred), used to program ICT 1900 series computers

Other uses

  • Plan (aid organisation), an international organisation that allows people to sponsor children in developing countries
  • Plan (magazine), an Irish architectural publication
  • Slang for planning permission

See also

  • Five-year plan (disambiguation)
  • Four Year Plan, a series of economic reforms in Nazi Germany
  • PDCA (Plan-do-check-act), a management method used in business
  • Planner (disambiguation)
  • The Plan (disambiguation)