Project management
Run your projects in the same place your engineering data lives
Thoma includes a full PLM-grade project management subsystem — not a bolt-on, not a separate login. Schedule, budget, risk, gate reviews, lessons, and earned-value reporting, all linked back to the products + documents + changes the projects are actually delivering.
Nine views, one project
Different stakeholders want different cuts of the same data. Switch views with one click; the underlying schedule + tasks + risk register stay live.
Schedule
Indented task hierarchy with predecessors, durations, and effort-on-finish dates. Edit a task on the schedule and the dependent dates roll forward automatically.
Gantt
Drag-to-resize bars, dependency arrows, critical-path highlighting, baseline overlay so you can see slip against the original plan at a glance.
Timeline
Compact swim-lane view grouped by assignee, milestone, or workstream. Useful for the executive read-out where the gantt is too much detail.
Calendar
Month grid showing tasks + milestones by due date with status filters. The view ops people actually want when triaging today's work.
Budget
Per-project budget with planned vs actual roll-up across labor + capital + materials. Variance tracking to date and at-completion.
ROI
Multi-year financial projections (revenue, cost, margin, NPV, payback period). Locked once a baseline is committed so your business case doesn't drift.
Reports
Schedule variance, earned-value (CPI/SPI), per-user task performance, status summaries — exportable. Built for the steering-committee deck.
Lessons
Capture what worked + what didn't at gate reviews and post-launch retrospectives. Searchable across projects so the next team doesn't repeat the same misstep.
Health
Top-of-screen health dashboard: schedule, budget, scope, risks, dependencies. RAG-flagged so anyone glancing at the project sees status in 2 seconds.
Stage-gate by default
Most engineering shops already run some flavor of stage-gate — APQP, NPI, your own custom phases. Thoma codifies it. Templates define your phases + gates + entrance and exit criteria + required deliverables. Every project from the template inherits the structure; deviations are recorded and explainable.
Baselines snapshot the plan at each gate so variance against the original commitment is visible at-a-glance, not buried in a spreadsheet someone forgot to update.
What's in the box
Project templates
Define your stage-gate process once (NPI, ECO, sustaining engineering, custom builds — whatever your shop runs). Spin up a new project from the template in 30 seconds. Templates carry default tasks, durations, dependencies, gate reviews, and required deliverables.
Baselines
Snapshot the schedule + budget + scope at any point — typically at each gate. Baselines are immutable. The active plan can drift; baselines stay frozen so you can measure variance against an authoritative plan-of-record.
Gate reviews
Configurable gates between phases (Concept → Design → Verification → Launch, or your own naming). Each gate carries entrance + exit criteria, required deliverables, approver routing, and a structured review record. Gate fail returns the project to the prior phase.
Tasks + assignments
Tasks belong to a project + a workstream + an assignee. Predecessors, dependencies, effort estimates, actuals on completion. Per-user task list at the top of every Thoma session — no more 'what am I supposed to be working on this week?'.
Risk register + heat map
Track risks per project with probability × impact heat-mapping, owner, mitigation status. Risks roll up to portfolio-level dashboards. Risk filters apply across the schedule view to highlight tasks under threatened risks.
Linked artifacts
Attach documents, BOMs, change requests, and decisions to tasks + gates. The deliverables checklist on a gate review is a living list — tick the box only when the linked artifact is in approved status.
MS Project export
One-click export to MS Project XML for stakeholders who insist on opening files in Microsoft Project. Round-trip back into Thoma is on the roadmap.
Per-user accountability
Reports show task delay attribution by assignee — useful for retrospectives and capacity planning, not for blame. Combined with the audit log surface, every project decision has a name + timestamp on it.
Linked, not siloed
Project tasks reference documents, BOMs, change requests, and decisions in the same vault. Closing a gate doesn’t require chasing five different systems for proof the deliverables exist.
Permission-aware
Per-tab permissions: not everyone should see ROI projections or budget actuals. The schedule + tasks are open to the team; financials are gated to whoever needs them.
Auditable
Every gate decision, baseline, status change, and budget revision lands in the audit log with actor + timestamp. CMMC + ISO auditors love this; you don’t have to assemble it after the fact.
Ready to look at it?
The live demo includes a fully populated NPI project with baselines, gate reviews, and earned-value reports.