It is the process by which an entity responsible for a project foresees the period and keep the mastery during the life of this project. In the group of project, Planner is responsible :

• To collect, to establish and to present elements or information
• To suggest the solutions
• To assure the economic planning, that is the mastery of projected period

The planners supplies the tools of assistance to the decision which allow to know as regards periods.:

• The state of the project at the moment T
• The variation with regard to the reference schedule with the information concerning the cause and the possibility of correction
• The economic planning and the estimation are inextricable
• The mission of economic planning contributes in *quot; giving*quot; the responsibility of the Project manager in delays

The mission

• Participation in the estimation
• Participation in the implementation of the methods of organization and definition of the organization charts
• Elaboration of the schedule and definition of the objectives
• Definition of the project organization
• Modelling of the work to realize and definition of the activities and the tasks
• Affectation and comparison of the necessary and available means
• Deduction of delays and optimization of the use of the means
• Collection and consideration of the follow-up information
• Comparison with the reference schedule and critics analysis of variations
• Validation of workload balance and evaluation of the evolution
• Establishment and update of the evolutions (physical and resource units) of the project
• Demands of technical solutions allowing the correction of the variations
• Take into account the customer's modifications
• Production of dashboards
• Participation in the elaboration of the projected schedules of due dates
• Participation in the capitalization of the knowledge, the elaboration of the statistics, the feeding of the acquired experience
• Make the participants aware of the necessity of correcting and of improving.