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Your dashboard shows green. SPI is stable. CPI is acceptable. Variance is manageable.
And then the project fails anyway.
Schedules that passed every monthly review suddenly reveal months of unrecoverable delay. Cost reports that showed controlled burn rates produce final accounts tens of thousands over budget.
The data never lied. But it never told the truth, either.
The gap between what dashboards show and what projects actually experience is widening. As reporting systems grow more sophisticated, they’re also becoming better at masking the structural failures that kill projects.
Owners are making resource decisions, acceleration commitments, and contractual positions based on data that is technically accurate and structurally misleading. By the time traditional KPIs move, the window for intervention has already closed.
Here’s what conventional project controls practice misses: it focuses on calculating metrics correctly and reporting them with precision. What it rarely challenges professionals to ask is whether those metrics are structurally capable of detecting the failure modes that truly determine project success or failure.
An SPI of 0.97 on a schedule with 28% open-ended logic isn’t a healthy project — it’s a reporting artifact. A CPI of 0.98 with an 11% gap between cost burn rate and physical progress isn’t cost control — it’s deferred recognition.
This session aims to closes that gap.
Drawing on forensic analysis from $75B+ in capital programs and $8B+ in resolved disputes, this masterclass shows you how to read project dashboards the way forensic analysts do. You’ll learn to recognize structural failures in your own reports using tools you can apply immediately. Through some case examples, you’ll see what experienced investigators see, and why it matters before your next status report.
If you’ve ever questioned whether your dashboard was telling the full story—or been caught off guard by project distress your KPIs never signaled—this session will give you the forensic framework and diagnostic instinct to see what’s coming before your next status report.
Here’s what you’ll gain by attending this free 90-min masterclass:
- Learn the WCL 5-Question Diagnostic — Pressure-test any project status report in five minutes using logic integrity, cost-schedule alignment, float concentration, baseline stability, and governance responsiveness checks.
- Discover the "Data Health vs. Project Health" Distinction — Separate whether your data is being calculated correctly from whether it's capable of revealing true project trajectory. This will change how you read every report going forward.
- Identify Five Early Warning Indicators Before KPIs Move — Recognize logic degradation, float migration, cost-progress divergence, baseline drift, and governance lag in data you already collect but rarely interrogate.
- Explore Case-Based Pattern Recognition — Walk through real dashboards from a $45M healthcare project and $1.2B oil and gas terminal that reported green while harboring structural failures. Understand what you would have missed and why.
- Walk Away with a Governance Alignment Checklist — Connect each diagnostic question to the governance decision it should trigger. Screenshot it and bring it into your next project review.
- Test Your Diagnostic Instinct in Real Time — Evaluate a live project status report and make the call before structural issues are revealed. Build the forensic capability this session is designed to develop.
If you’ve ever struggled to explain schedule risk in a way that leads to action—or felt that your risk analysis deserved more impact—this session will give you the clarity, structure, and tools to change that.
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About Peter Tignini
Peter Tignini brings 30+ years of experience across $75B+ in capital programs and $8B+ in resolved disputes spanning oil and gas, data centers, power generation, healthcare, and infrastructure across six continents.
As Director of Dispute Resolution & Governance at Precision Scheduling Consultants (PSC), he leads forensic schedule and cost analysis for major international arbitrations under ICC, FIDIC, and other frameworks.
Peter is the author of the When Controls Lie series, examining why capital projects fail despite sophisticated project controls systems. His forensic methodology has been tested under cross-examination and applied on programs for clients including Mubadala Investment Company, Saudi Aramco, Koch Industries, and leading technology firms.
To learn more about Peter, please visit his profile on LinkedIn.
About Shohreh Ghorbani
Shohreh Ghorbani is the Founder and Technical Director of Project Control Academy. She began her career as an Industrial Engineer, working in manufacturing and quality systems, where she developed a strong foundation in how data, process discipline, and continuous improvement work together to drive performance. After moving to Canada, she transitioned into Project Controls and built more than two decades of experience across multiple disciplines, with deep expertise in planning and scheduling and cost controls on major multi-billion-dollar projects.
Entering Project Controls without formal training became a defining turning point in her professional journey. It motivated her to build what she wished had existed from the beginning, clear, practical, and accessible education that helps professionals develop competence with confidence. In 2012, she founded Project Control Academy, which has grown into a global leader in Project Controls training, serving tens of thousands of professionals worldwide. She is the creator of several flagship programs, including Applied Project Controls, Earned Value Management Mastery, Project Scheduling Blueprint, Project Control Career Success Roadmap, Project Controls for Project Managers, and Applied AI in Project Controls.
At the heart of Shohreh’s work is a passion for teaching and simplifying complexity so professionals can apply concepts immediately in real projects. She actively collaborates with experts worldwide through webinars, live broadcasts, interviews, and the Project Control Summit, bringing current insights and practical guidance to the global project controls community. Following a webinar on AI and a keynote presentation at Project Control Summit on AI-Powered Project Controls, the response from the community made the next step unmistakable: professionals wanted hands-on, job-ready AI skills. That momentum helped shape Applied AI in Project Controls, reflecting her mission to help project professionals embrace the future with clarity, confidence, and the ability to turn AI from a buzzword into a real advantage in their work and careers.
To learn more about Shohreh, visit her profile on LinkedIn.
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