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)