A Plan defines everything about your entire build process. Plans:
- consist of one or more Jobs, which are organised into one or more Stages;
- contains a single 'Default Job' in a single Stage, after creating a new Plan;
- define default settings for what gets built by Jobs in the Plan (i.e. the 'default source repository');
- define how the Plan's build is triggered;
- define who will be notified of the Job's build result;
- define who has permission to view and perform various actions on the Plan and its Jobs.
Every plan belongs to a Project.
Projects and plans can only be configured by Bamboo administrators (see Creating a Plan).
Creating a Plan
Before you begin:
To create a Plan in Bamboo:
- Click the Create Plan link in the top navigation bar. The Create Planintroductory page is displayed with the following options:
- 'Create a New Plan'
- 'Clone an Existing Plan' — This option only appears if you have the 'Clone' and/or 'Admin' plan permission for at least one Plan on the Bamboo server.
- 'Import a Maven 2 Project' — This option only appears if Maven 2 has been installed.
- Click one of the options to start creating your Plan. Each of these options is described in the pages linked below:

Screenshot above: Create Plan Introductory Page
Notes
Creating a New Plan
Cloning an Existing Plan
Importing a Plan from Maven 2