NOC Schedule Planner

Build a 24/7 NOC shift plan across timezones, see where the coverage gaps are, and export it. The planner is free, needs no signup, and your plan never leaves your browser.

Follow the sun is the hard part, so the planner does the timezone arithmetic for you. Every shift is drawn in your own clock and labelled in the crew's local time, so you can see at a glance how a boundary in Singapore lands in London and New York. Handovers, overlapping shifts, and windows that run past midnight all render as they actually are.

Coverage is checked as you build. Uncovered hours are shown as the hole they are, named down to the day and the time, and a shift nobody is rostered on says so instead of looking staffed. People can work different days on the same shift, which is how a real rota with a Sunday to Thursday and a Tuesday to Saturday actually works.

Export what your team already uses. A calendar file for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, with each person able to take just their own shifts. A spreadsheet carrying each shift in local time, your viewing time, and UTC so the columns can be compared. A one page landscape roster for the wall, with the gaps still visible in black and white.

What is a NOC schedule planner? A NOC schedule planner is a tool for building around the clock shift coverage for a network operations center, where the hard parts are timezones and the gaps between shifts. The Signal9 planner is free and needs no signup. You add your shifts and crews, it draws the week on your own clock while labelling every shift in the crew's local time, it shows you where coverage is missing, and it exports to calendar, spreadsheet or print.

Is the NOC schedule planner really free? Yes. The planner is free, it needs no account, and your plan stays in your browser. Building a plan, checking coverage, and exporting to calendar, spreadsheet or print all cost nothing.

Do I need an account? No. Open the page, build the plan, export it, and save a copy of the plan file. An account matters only when you come back and want to reopen a saved plan, or when you want a live shared calendar for the team.

Where is my schedule stored? In your browser on that machine. Nothing is uploaded to us. That also means clearing your browser data clears the plan, so save the plan file before you go. It is yours to keep.

How do I get NOC shifts into my calendar? Export a calendar file and open it in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Each person can export just their own shifts, so a responder sees their rota and nobody else's.

What is a follow the sun schedule? Three regional crews hand the desk around the clock so each one works local daytime, typically Asia Pacific into Europe into the Americas. The planner has a follow the sun template that draws the windows and the handovers for you.