Project Control
Keywords:
- Scheduling
- Scope Management
- Workload Planning
- Workforce Planning
- Cost Estimation and Value Engineering based Target Costing
- Cost Control
- Earned Value Management
Background Experience available at Novo Artifact Consulting:
- Leader of the Project Control Office of a €20bn Program [21]
- Founder and Leader of a Project Management Office (PMO) for a large Project [14]
- Responsible for the setup, implementation and leadership of an entirely new department to enhance the company’s Project and Program Management capabilities [17]
- Leading strategic capital investment Projects for plant efficiency improvements in support of Programs [16] [15]
- Manager of various space Projects [09]
- Responsible for the management of many business transformation Projects leading to new ways-of working with the aim to improve a Portfolio’s or Program’s bottom line results inc the improvement of the engagement and enablement of the workforce [10] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [21]
- Responsible for, or at least contributed to the setup and maintenance of Program structures like PBS, WBS, OBS, CBS, SBS, DBS [09] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [21]
- Responsible for cost estimation (AACE standard) and target costing [21]
- Responsible for, or at least contributed to, the establishment of a Basis of Estimate (BoE), inc scope descriptions, inputs and outputs, assumptions, risks [13] [19] [21]
- Responsible for a Program’s Cost Control [19] [21]
- Responsible for Earned Value Management on some mega-Programs (A350, A400M, ITER – here: ANSI standard) [17] [21]
- Responsible for the setup and maintenance of KPI-based Program status reporting as well as for processing of recovery measures [08] [09] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [19] [21]
- Responsible for Project Procurement Management [15] [16]
- Responsible for Procurement Project Control [21]
- Responsible for Change Control within the Project Control framework [21]
- Responsible for Value Engineering based Target Costing [22]
AC: AACE: Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering; ANSI: American National Standards Institute: BoE: Body of Estimate; CBS: Cost Breakdown Structure; DBS: Document Breakdown Structure; ITER: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; OBS: Organization Breakdown Structure; PBS: Product/Plant Breakdown Structure; PMO: Project Management Office; SBS: System Breakdown Structure; WBS: Work Breakdown Structure
The numbers in brackets refer to positions as stated in the CV of Hans-H. Altfeld; it can be downloaded from this site under 'About me'
Typical PDCA Content:
AC: Actual Cost; BAC: Budget at Completion; EV: Earned Value; EVM: Earned Value Management; PDCA: Plan – Do – Check – Act; PV: Planned Value

- Actions Management (Recovery)
- Implementation of Cost Cutting Measures
- Management of Cost Contingencies
- Execution of Performance Change Control (Scope, Schedule, Workforce, Cost)



