Critical Path & Milestone Insights

Focus on the activities actually driving completion.

A schedule can hold thousands of activities. Only some control the finish. Controls Star surfaces the paths and milestones that deserve attention first — so schedule reviews start where they matter.

Controls Star · Critical Paths
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Controlling pathNear-critical path
Representative paths shown for illustration.
Less tracing, more deciding

Stop tracing logic by hand.

Primary & secondary paths

The controlling path plus the near-critical paths ready to take over.

Path summaries

Key interior activities from start to finish, without opening the whole network.

Milestone insight

What's driving each milestone and where completion risk concentrates.

Paths by scope

View critical paths across the whole job or by area — Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning.

The payoff

Faster reviews. Sharper conversations.

  • · Faster schedule reviews
  • · Less manual path tracing
  • · Earlier completion-risk visibility
  • · Better prioritisation for the project team

Controls Star focuses on surfacing and summarising the driving paths and milestones in your uploaded schedule. It does not perform formal forensic delay analysis, Time Impact Analysis or claims analysis — it helps the team see where completion risk lives, faster.

Aerial view of an elevated highway and interchange under construction

The finish date is decided by a handful of activities. Find them first.

See what's really driving completion.

Explore the sample project, then upload a P6 XER to surface its controlling and near-critical paths.

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