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 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, 2005 "Plans" (Birds of Tokyo song), 2010 "Plans" (Brandon Lake song), 2025 "Plans" (Brandon Flowers song), 2026

"iPlan", a 2023 song by Dlala Thukzin

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)