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Planning guides, built for integrated planning

Short, plain guides on the parts of a project plan, how they connect, and how Sen helps in your sector. The worked examples use the same case, so the numbers agree from page to page.

What is Sen?Sen is a free planning tool from Krong Academy. It holds your work breakdown, schedule, budget, risks, RACI, stakeholders and KPIs in one dataset, so a change in one place updates the rest. Your project stays in your browser.

The foundations

The six parts of a plan and how they connect.

GUIDE 01
Integrated planning
Why a plan works only when scope, time, money, risk and people are connected, and how Sen keeps them that way.
GUIDE 02
Work breakdown structure
Break a project into work packages once, then reuse the same IDs for schedule, budget, risk and ownership.
GUIDE 03
Critical path
Which tasks have no slack, how float works, and how to read a critical path on a real schedule.
GUIDE 04
RACI matrix
Assign Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed to every task so nothing is left to chance.
GUIDE 05
Risk scoring
Score probability and impact, set priority bands, and connect each risk to the work and the contingency.
GUIDE 06
Earned value
Planned value, earned value, actual cost, SPI and CPI explained, with the Week 28 numbers from Caldera Freight.
GUIDE 07
The eight planning threads
The eight threads that every complete plan holds together, and the five principles for keeping them connected.

Sen for your work

How Sen helps in the sector or role you work in.

GUIDE 08
NGOs and non-profits
Plan a grant-funded project so the budget, the timeline and the outcomes you promised a donor all agree.
GUIDE 09
Government and public sector
Build a plan that stands up to review: clear scope, owners, evidence, and a record of every change.
GUIDE 10
Business projects
Use Sen to plan an operational, IT or change project so the budget, team and timeline agree before you start.
GUIDE 11
Startups and small businesses
A launch plan that a small team can build in an afternoon and keep honest as things change.
GUIDE 12
New project managers
Sen shows how the parts of a plan connect, so you build the right habits from your first project.

Sen features

What each part of Sen does, and the idea behind it.

GUIDE 13
Dependencies and lags
Finish-to-start is only one of four links. Learn start-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-finish and lag, and how Sen schedules them.
GUIDE 14
Milestones and gates
A milestone marks a date that matters. A gate marks a decision. Both take no time, and both belong on the schedule.
GUIDE 15
Resource loading
A schedule can be correct and still impossible. Resource loading shows when one team is asked to do too much in the same week.
GUIDE 16
Cash flow and S-curve
Turn task budgets into a monthly cost profile and the S-curve that funders and finance teams ask for.
GUIDE 17
Status reporting
A sponsor reads one page. Build it from the live plan, so the colours come from the numbers.
GUIDE 18
Change control
Scope changes are normal. Unrecorded scope changes are the problem. A change request register gives each one a decision and a date.
GUIDE 19
What-if scenarios
Copy the plan, change one thing, and compare end date, cost and risk side by side.

Using Sen

Is it easy, and where the course fits.

GUIDE 20
Is Sen easy to use?
Honest answer: Sen is a planner's tool. It is not hard, but it is not trivial. What to expect in your first hour, and whether it is overkill for a small project.
GUIDE 21
Sen and the course
A tool holds your plan. It does not teach you what a good plan is. Here is what the course adds to Sen.

What Sen can do

How it helps

You get consistent figures across every section, exports in several formats, and practice with real planning software. Sen is an optional companion to the course. You can build the same plan in a template.

Try it on a finished plan

Open the Caldera Freight example, or start from one of four templates.

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