P-ADDIE Project Planner

P is for Performance — Observable, measurable behavior that produces a specified result in a defined context.

P-ADDIE does not replace ADDIE. It reorients it. The difference is not in the phases — it is in the questions those phases are designed to answer.

The project

Project name

Who it is for

Who asked for it

Target date

Phase 1 of 5

A · Analysis

Diagnose before you design

Analysis is not a checkbox. It is a diagnosis: what is currently happening, what should be happening, why the gap exists, and whether training can actually close it.

The P question

What should people be doing on the job that they are not doing now?

What happens nowRequired

The current performance, described as behaviour rather than attitude.

What should happen insteadRequired

Same specificity. This becomes the raw material for your objectives.

How you know the gap is realRequired

The evidence that sent someone to you — not an opinion.

Why the gap existsRequired

Tick every cause that is actually present. Only the first is a training problem.

People do not know how, or have never been taughtNobody told them clearly what good looks likeThey lack the tools, time, or access to do it properlyDoing it right is slower, harder, or goes unrewardedThey get no feedback on whether they are doing it rightSupervisors do not reinforce it, or work around it themselves

What has to change besides training

Every non-training cause you ticked needs an owner here, or the training will fail anyway.

0 of 4 required answers in this phase

Your project plan

0 of 21 answers in place. What is still open:

Project header: Project name
Project header: Who it is for
Project header: Who asked for it
Project header: Target date
Analysis: What happens now
Analysis: What should happen instead
and 15 more

Fill in the project header and walk the five phases. Your plan assembles here as you go, ready to hand to a team.

Nothing here leaves your browser. This tool has no server and no account. Your plan stays on this device, and closing the tab discards it unless you copy or print it first.

Next in the method

Chapter 3 sharpens the objectives you drafted in Design; Chapter 4 is the full root-cause diagnostic behind the Analysis questions here.

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