About PPSS
Specialist project controls, built around how good controls work actually gets done.
PPSS was founded on a straightforward observation: the best project controls outcomes happen when senior practitioners are inside the team, not reviewing from outside it.
How it started
Built from the inside out.
PPSS was built around a straightforward observation: projects get into trouble when controls are treated as overhead, and recover when experienced practitioners are given real ownership of the schedule, the records and the reporting.
That belief shaped how the firm was structured from the start. Not as a consultancy that reviews and recommends from a distance, as practitioners who embed directly inside the team, work in the schedule, build the records, and stand behind the output.
That model has not changed. 15 years on, every PPSS engagement is still led by a senior practitioner with direct accountability for the work.
How we work
Embedded, not advisory. Senior, not delegated.
You get the senior person
The practitioner who scopes the engagement is the practitioner doing the work. There is no handover to a junior team after the first meeting. No account manager between you and the person on the schedule. The same senior practitioner stays with the project through to completion.
The work holds up
Schedules, records and reports are built to stand up to scrutiny, from a board, a client, a contractor or an independent reviewer. That is not a byproduct of good controls work. It is the point of it. Contemporaneous records, defensible logic and one version of the truth are built in from the start, not assembled after a dispute has already formed.
Depth over breadth
PPSS works in project controls. Not general management consulting, not digital transformation, not HR advisory. The depth of what we deliver comes directly from not spreading across disciplines that are not ours. When something needs project controls expertise, that is what you get.
The practitioners
Senior practitioners placed directly inside your project.
Beyond Kurt's direct involvement in engagements, PPSS places experienced planners, schedulers, project controls leads and Primavera P6 practitioners from a network of senior practitioners, each with substantial capital project experience across the sectors PPSS works in. Practitioners are matched to engagements based on sector experience, project type and the specific controls challenge the project is facing.
Those consultants come from many backgrounds, including former tradespeople who have worked hands-on on the same capital projects PPSS supports, not only from planning and controls roles behind a desk.
Next step
If you want to understand whether PPSS is the right fit for your project, the fastest way is a direct conversation.
No sales process, no discovery questionnaire. Tell us what the situation is and we will tell you honestly whether we can help and how we would approach it.