BOOKS
Our book series focuses on actionable strategies, proven frameworks, and step-by-step tools that help professionals build structure, improve performance, and drive reliability
AVAILABLE NOW
The Maintenance Planners Playbook
Practical CMMS insights — from building clean asset data to improving work order closeouts.
Step-by-step frameworks and templates designed to reduce chaos and boost schedule compliance.
Guidance on spare parts management strategies and kitting for job efficiency.
Proven methods to track KPIs that matter, like schedule compliance and backlog health.
Tips on influencing without authority, building trust across maintenance and operations.
Career Progression, exploring development path options, training courses and personal growth
✓ Maintenance Scheduling
✓ CMMS Strategy
AVAILABLE NOW
The Planner HQ Guide To: Mastering The Weekly Planning Cycle
Book #1 in the “PHQ Guide To” series of shorter, accessible and practical handbooks
Your practical guide to running the weekly planning cycle with confidence and control.
- How to structure the weekly cycle step by step
- Mistakes that derail planning (and how to avoid them)
- Tools to balance workload, backlog, and priorities
- Real-world strategies to improve schedule compliance
✓ Maintenance Planning
✓ Scheduling Strategies
AVAILABLE NOW
The Planner HQ Guide To: Managing The Work Order Lifecycle
Book #2 in the “PHQ Guide To” series of shorter, accessible and practical handbooks
Your practical guide to managing the Work Order lifecycle from creation to closure
- How to triage incoming work requests
- Setting work orders up to be ready to schedule
- Monitoring during work order execution
- World work order class close out and data capture
✓ Work Order Management
✓ CMMS Best Practices
Coming Soon
Following on from the success of the flagship Maintenance Planners Playbook, and the growing series of short-form handbooks in the Planner HQ Guide To series, we have a range of book projects in the works to support maintenance planning excellence:
CMMS Mastery
CMMS Mastery is a true deep dive into the real-world use of a CMMS from the perspective that matters most: the maintenance planner. It’s not a technical user manual. It’s not written by a software vendor. What it does offer is something far more valuable — a practical, structured guide to making your CMMS work for you and your team, no matter which platform you use. This one will be a corker, stay tuned for this one!
Due Summer 2026
Additions to “The Planner HQ Guide To…”Handbook Series
Additions to the popular series of super focused and highly interactive handbooks on dedicated planning and reliability topics, to include:
- Job Plan Building – A Practical Guide to Writing Better Maintenance Tasks
- Shutdowns Without the Stress – A Mini Guide to Outage Success
- Planning for PM Success – How to Structure and Optimise a PM Strategy
- CMMS Data Quality and Clean-up
- Planning and Scheduling fo New Builds and Project
- Auditing Your PM Strategy and Continuous Improvement Cycles
- Influence without Authority: Soft Skills for Maintenance Planners
- Partnering with Reliability Engineers for Optimised Asset Outcomes
- Utilising Contractors and External Vendors in The Maintenance Strategy
Dropping throughout 2026
Join our Mailing List to Hear Updates First
If any of these books have caught your eye please remember to join our mailing list below and you’ll be the first to hear about planned release dates (plus a load of other cool content to help you on your quest to become a better maintenance planner)