A development plan is a grouping together of personnel development measures. The objective of a development plan is to provide specific qualifications.

Use development plans to create non person-specific, reusable templates for complex or similar personnel development measures that occur frequently in your organization. You can copy these templates to individual development plans and then change them accordingly.

For example, you can draw up entire training programs, and then copy these to the individual development plans of trainees.

Each development plan comprises a series of subactivities (which can occur in parallel to each other). Subactivities might include:

• Attending a training course

• Holding a position

• Being deployed in a specific organizational unit

• Spending time at a specific location

You can store the following information in a development plan:

• The duration of the subactivities

• The sequence of the subactivities

• Whether subactivities are obligatory

• Whether it is obligatory to complete a certain number of subactivities within the development plan (for example, you specify that at least 2 of a total of 4 subactivities must be completed).