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A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used
to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of
intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.
For spatial or planar topologic or topographic sets see map.
Plans can be formal or informal:

 Structured and formal plans, used by multiple

people, are more likely to occur
in projects, diplomacy, careers, economic
development, military campaigns, combat, sports, ga
mes, or in the conduct of other business. In most
cases, the absence of a well-laid plan can have
adverse effects: for example, a non-robust project
plan can cost the organization time and money. [1][2]
 Informal or ad hoc plans are created by individuals
in all of their pursuits.
The most popular ways to describe plans are by their breadth, time frame, and
specificity; however, these planning classifications are not independent of one another.
For instance, there is a close relationship between the short- and long-term categories
and the strategic and operational categories.
It is common for less formal plans to be created as abstract ideas, and remain in that
form as they are maintained and put to use. More formal plans as used for business and
military purposes, while initially created with and as an abstract thought, are likely to be
written down, drawn up or otherwise stored in a form that is accessible to multiple
people across time and space. This allows more reliable collaboration in the execution
of the plan.

Contents

 1Topics
o 1.1Planning
o 1.2Planners
o 1.3Methodology
 2Examples of plans
 3Quotations
 4See also
 5References

Topics[edit]
Planning[edit]
The term planning implies the working out of sub-components in some degree of
elaborate detail. Broader-brush enunciations of objectives may qualify as
metaphorical roadmaps. Planning literally just means the creation of a plan; it can be as
simple as making a list. It has acquired a technical meaning, however, to cover the area
of government legislation and regulations elated to the use of resources.
Planning can refer to the planned use of any and all resources, as in the succession
of Five-Year Plans through which the government of the Soviet Union sought to develop
the country. However, the term is most frequently used in relation to planning for the
use of land and related resources, for example in urban planning, transportation
planning, etc.
In a governmental context, "planning" without any qualification is most likely to mean the
regulation of land use. See also zoning.
Planners[edit]
Planners are the professionals that have the requisite training to take or make decisions
that will help or balance the society in order to have a functional, aesthetic, and
convenient environment.
Methodology[edit]
Concepts such as top-down planning (as opposed to bottom-up planning) reveal
similarities with the systems thinking behind the top-down model.
The subject touches such broad fields as psychology, game
theory, communications and information theory, which inform the planning methods that
people seek to use and refine; as well as logic and science (i.e. methodological
naturalism) which serve as a means of testing different parts of a plan for reliability or
consistency.
The specific methods used to create and refine plans depend on who is to make it, who
is to put it to use, and what resources are available for the task. The methods used by
an individual in his or her mind or personal organizer, may be very different from the
collection of planning techniques found in a corporate board-room, and the planning
done by a project manager has different priorities and uses different tools to the
planning done by an engineer or industrial designer.

Examples of plans[edit]
 Architectural plan
 Business plan
 Fragplan
 Flight plan
 Health plan
 Marketing plan
 Military plan
 Project plan
 Site plan
 Plan de Ayala
 Plan de Casa Mata
 Plan de Córdoba
 Plan de Iguala
 Plan de San Luis Potosí
 The Schlieffen Plan
 The Five-Year Plan system in the former Soviet
Union
 The Marshall Plan
 U.S. plan to invade Iraq

Quotations[edit]
Plans are of little importance, but planning is
essential – Winston Churchill
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. – Dwight D.
Eisenhower
No battle plan survives contact with the
enemy. – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a
perfect plan next week. – George S. Patton

See also[edit]
 Automated planning
  Critical path method
 PDCA
 PERT
 Planned unit development
 Roadmap
 Strategy
 Tactics

References[edit]
1. ^ "What Should Be Included in a Project
Plan". www.pmhut.com.
Retrieved December 18,  2009.
2. ^ J. Scott Armstrong (1986).  "The Value of
Formal Planning for Strategic Decisions: A
Reply"  (PDF). Strategic Management
Journal.  7 (2): 183–
185.  doi:10.1002/smj.4250070207.  S2CID 
29733040.

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