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Project Controls
Project going south with no warning? Deteriorating project margins, accompanied by rosy forecasts from the project team, yet the project continues to deteriorate?
Is the PM or the project controls engineer "lost in the sauce" in the scheduling or database system of their own creation, while the project suffers?
Maybe you have a PM or project controls engineer that has experience in your industry, but not enough experience in Project Controls.
Project Controls Engineering designs professional Project Controls Systems, and when accompanied by effective Cost Control and scheduling, gives the project team the information needed to effectively manage the project.
Project Controls Engineering's Project Controls Systems are independent of the scheduling, accounting and budgeting system, but draw information from these sources for effective project controls. Project Controls Engineering's Project Controls Systems do what you want a project controls system do, which is the following:
1. Tell You What Happened
For work completed, accurate progress and performance measurement (all costs and revenue by service period - actual and accrual), drilled down to task level, and individual cost transaction level.
2. How Does This Compare to Plan?
Comparison of actual project work to the project plan (budget and schedule) for any time period. Allows for analysis of entire project, down to individual tasks, and any grouping (by area, task type, manager, etc) in between. Heavy use of Earned Value metrics to identify variances from project plan.
3. Why Did The Project Vary From The Plan? Can We Correct?
PCE's Project Controls Systems allow for detailed analysis of project variances to discover the causes of the variances (unit cost overrun, duration overrun, excessive resource use, Scope of Work Change, etc.). PCE's engineering experience allows us to construct and submit plans for mitigating these issues that cause negative impacts and optimizing the project's performance through to project completion.
4. What is The Project Plan Now, Through Project Completion?
PCE's Project Controls Systems allow for complete flexibility in "What If" analysis of Estimate to Complete (ETC) and allow for multiple scenarios to be constructed, analyzed, and revised through project completion (Best, Worst, and Average case scenarios, resource price change scenarios, resource availability scenarios, government approval delay scenarios, etc, and any combination therein).
PCE designs effective project controls systems because we have experience and expertise in accounting, corporate accounting systems (J.D. Edwards, Oracle, etc), project controls software (Excel, Access, P3, P3e/c, MS Project), Project Controls* and project management.
NOTE: Just like the Cost Control meetings, the Project control review meetings are paperless, and are based on a PC and projector. Review and analysis is carried out real time on the screen, without using paper reports. Corrections and changes are made immediately and the effects are seen immediately. Time periods can be brought up in seconds for comparison and analysis. Tasks can be grouped by area, resource, manager or task type, again for comparison and analysis. Budgets can be modified with change orders instantly. Forecasts, and endless "What If" exercises can be done instantly. At any time, reports and other documentation can be printed from the system for record keeping.
*PCE's Principal taught Project Controls in a graduate program.
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