Plan (disambiguation)

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 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" (song), a song by Birds of Tokyo
• The Plan (2015 film), a 2015 Indian Kannada film

Places

• Planá (Tachov District) (in German: Plan), a city in West Bohemia, Czech Republic
• Planá (České Budějovice District) (in German: Plan), a village in South Bohemia, Czech Republic
• Plan (Huesca), a place in the Spanish Provinz Huesca
• Plan (Samnaun), a village in the Swiss Gemeinde Samnaun
• Plan, Isère, commune in the Isère department, France
• Plan, Albania, a village in the Pult area

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)