For Project Controls Managers

See cost overruns
before they happen.

PEMS connects estimating, invoicing, and physical progress into one project-controls system — so you can forecast final cost and completion with confidence.

PEMS Work Plan — Gantt timeline with earned value metrics
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SPI threshold breach
CA2 External dropped to 0.87 — recommend review.
Final cost forecast
$46.78M · $1.42M under BAC.
The state of project planning

Construction projects miss their targets on three axes.

Capital projects still struggle to meet the three success criteria — on time, on or under budget, and in compliance. The root cause isn't ambition. It's information architecture: data is fragmented across estimating, scheduling, and finance, and variances surface only after the period closes.

73%

of overruns surface only after the period closes.

4–6 wk

lag between physical field progress and the schedule.

11

separate systems reconciled each reporting cycle.

What's causing it

The structural failures behind it

01Planning and execution information siloed across systems
02Tracking thousands of activity-level tasks
03Subjectivity in execution measurements
04Project data trapped in Excel, MSP, and Primavera
05No live integration with the financial system
06Reports authored only after the period closes
Introducing PEMS

A cloud system
built for project controls

01 · BASELINE

A single performance baseline.

Integrate scope, WBS, schedule, and estimate into one measurement baseline so every reporting period rolls up to the same source of truth.

  • Versioned baseline lock with audit trail
  • Excel import
  • Re-baselining workflow with approvals
PEMS Baseline Plan — planned, earned, and actual cost curves across reporting periods
Live view · Baseline plan
PEMS WBS Table — deliverables and work packages with Valid status
Live view · Deliverables · WBS table
02 · PROGRESS

Track deliverables, not activities.

Measure physical completion through work packages — not the 6,000 activities buried in your Primavera file. Field-friendly, objective, audit-ready.

  • Mobile-friendly progress capture
  • Photo-attached deliverable sign-off
  • Foreman / PM dual review gate
03 · FORECAST

Earned value, finally usable.

Lightweight earned-value and earned-schedule techniques forecast final cost and completion every measurement period — no PhD required.

  • Final-cost forecast with confidence band
  • Completion-date earned-schedule output
  • Period-over-period variance reports
PEMS Planned Curve — baseline performance curve over reporting periods
Live view · Planned curve
HEALTH CHECK · 8 MINUTES · NO CARD

How healthy are
your project controls?

A structured assessment across five pillars — cost, schedule, forecasting, reporting, and tooling. Get a low / moderate / high rating per area, plus targeted recommendations delivered as an executive-ready PDF.

5
pillars assessed
15
targeted questions
8 min
to complete
About Us

Provided by
Inexertus, Inc.

PEMS is provided by Inexertus Inc, a Project Management and Lean Six Sigma training and consulting firm. We have delivered fundamentals to advanced project management training courses and consulting to establish and operate a project management office (PMO) in several private companies and government organizations.

Our vision is to help implement the latest and most effective project management techniques and improve performance in projects of any size, complexity or type, in any industry.

Built on a published project controls methodology
Integrated Project Planning and Execution — Williams Chirinos, M.Sc., P.Eng., PMP
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See it live

See PEMS on your projects.

Get a 30-minute walkthrough with a project-controls engineer — baseline, progress, and forecast, using data like yours.