Planilist

Planilist is a structured catalog or database used to organize and compare planning documents, roadmaps, and policy proposals. It gathers individual plans into a single repository, often with metadata to support versioning, scenario analysis, and collaboration. Planilists are used to track timelines, resources, milestones, and dependencies, enabling stakeholders to assess trade-offs between alternative plans.

Common fields include plan_id, title, objective, scope, start_date, end_date, milestones, status, owner, version, resources, cost, risks, dependencies, and notes. Plans can be hierarchical, with parent plans and sub-plans, and may be categorized by domain or scenario. Change logs and access controls support governance and audit trails.

Planilists support the plan lifecycle: creation, review, approval, execution, revision, and archival. They facilitate scenario planning by storing multiple variants of a plan and capturing assumptions. They are used in various domains such as urban planning, corporate strategy, software development roadmaps, and emergency management.

Benefits include improved transparency, traceability, and cross-team collaboration, while complexity and governance requirements can increase overhead. Effective planilists often rely on standardized schemas, clear ownership, and integration with calendars, budgets, and project management tools.

See also: project management, roadmap, portfolio management, planning method.