Course Overview

Planning and Scheduling Best Practices focuses on establishing consistent work-management practices across a maintenance organization. The course connects planning and scheduling principles with defined responsibilities, resource coordination, performance measures, and the leadership needed to sustain new working methods. Participants examine how a shared process supports reliable work preparation and organized execution.

The program gives particular attention to implementing and strengthening the planning function. It considers work readiness, labor capacity, backlog management, and the agreements that connect maintenance with operations. Participants explore how measures such as planned work and schedule compliance can guide review, alongside communication and change-management practices that support adoption. The emphasis is on turning sound principles into routines that teams can follow, evaluate, and continue to develop.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define the principles and responsibilities that support an effective planning and scheduling process.
• Assess work readiness and its relationship to backlog and resource planning.
• Explain how labor capacity and operational agreements inform maintenance schedules.
• Evaluate existing work-management practices against defined planning and scheduling principles.
• Calculate and interpret planned-work and schedule-compliance measures using agreed definitions.
• Develop implementation actions that connect leadership support, communication, and team responsibilities.
• Establish review practices that support continued adoption and improvement.

Practical Application

Apply the learning to establish planning and scheduling practices that are understood and consistently used across the organization.

• Shared working standards: Define what planning, readiness, scheduling, and execution require from each participating function.
• Balanced work and capacity: Connect an organized backlog with available resources and operational agreements to support dependable schedule preparation.
• Visible process performance: Use clearly defined measures and regular discussions to review how the process is working and select useful development actions.
• Sustained adoption: Link implementation priorities with ownership, leadership support, and team routines that reinforce the agreed way of working.