Multidimensional Preemptive Coordination in Construction
The founding paper — the News Wall, the append-only audit trail, and alerts that escalate vertically and horizontally.
Read the paper (PDF)Projects rarely fail on one big event. They bleed out through small, unseen delays that nobody escalates — until accounting finds them weeks later, when the money is already gone. MPC turns everyday coordination into a system of accountability: deadlines that escalate themselves, a record that can’t be quietly changed, and one personal wall that shows each person exactly what needs their action.
A peer-reviewed coordination model, in development at Indicio d.o.o. — 30+ years in construction software.
In construction and other multi-party projects, the real risk isn’t a single catastrophe — it’s the steady accumulation of small delays that stay invisible until their cumulative cost is significant. By the time a number lands in a financial report, the chance to act has passed.
Existing tools are good at helping you record what happened. The harder problem is making the right person aware of an approaching deadline before it slips — and making sure the record of who knew what, and when, can be trusted afterwards. That is the problem MPC is built for.
We have compared MPC’s core against the documentation of the leading project and work-management tools. For these three capabilities, we find no documented out-of-the-box equivalent.
An approaching deadline raises a yellow flag; a missed one turns red — and the alert travels up the reporting line to supervisors and sideways to the peers it affects. No one has to remember to escalate; the structure does it automatically.
Every action is logged with a system timestamp and the identity of who made it. Entries are append-only — no one can quietly change the date or rewrite history. Accountability that holds up to procurement scrutiny.
Each person gets a single personal feed that pulls together everything needing their action across four dimensions at once — the projects they’re on, their place in the org, the external partners involved, and the topic at hand. Not four separate lists.
Supporting this: safe external participation — subcontractors and suppliers can be invited onto a topic, with a per-post internal/external flag controlling exactly what they see. The model has been in production within Indicio’s ERP for years; MPC packages it as a focused, standalone product.
Four tests worth applying to any tool that claims to keep a project coordinated.
| Capability | The test to apply | Why it decides outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| Preemptive, escalating alerts | Do at-risk and overdue items escalate automatically up the reporting line and sideways to affected peers — or only notify the assignee? | Coordination fails silently when only the assignee sees the warning; the chain must know before the deadline, not after. |
| A tamper-evident audit trail | Is history append-only and immutable — or admin-editable / purgeable on a retention timer? | Procurement and dispute defensibility (e.g. EU PPDS) require a record no one can quietly alter or delete. |
| A multi-dimensional personal feed | Does one personal view aggregate work across project + reporting line + external partner + topic at once — or collapse to a single-axis “my tasks” list? | Obligations cut across all four axes; a single-axis feed hides the cross-cutting ones until they slip. |
| Per-message confidentiality | Can internal/external visibility be set per post — or only per object/role when a guest is invited? | Real threads mix internal and external participants; coarse role-scoping over-shares or forces parallel channels. |
MPC was built to meet all four. The supporting research is in the dossier →
MPC isn’t a freshly-invented feature list. Its model was first published in 2013 and refined across more than a decade of double-peer-reviewed papers in construction, economics and risk management — presented on four continents and independently cited.
The International Cost Engineering Council (founded 1976) reaches more than 300,000 cost engineers and project managers across 120+ nations. Dinko Bačun presented at three of its World Congresses — most fully at ICEC–PAQS 2018 in Sydney, where the four coordination dimensions behind MPC were set out on stage.
That talk also shows where the model leads: once every request carries its own duration, an enterprise’s interleaved schedules become measurable — and the probability that a deadline will be met can be calculated.
Highlights · ICEC–PAQS 2018 (3 min). The predictive-scheduling work is the research foundation MPC is built on, not a feature of today’s product — the full reasoning, and the complete 31-minute talk, are in the research dossier →
The founding paper — the News Wall, the append-only audit trail, and alerts that escalate vertically and horizontally.
Read the paper (PDF)Brings external suppliers and subcontractors safely onto the wall, with per-post visibility control. The four feed dimensions are named here.
View on Google ScholarHorizontal, vertical and diagonal coordination across many concurrent projects, with a verifiable audit trail.
Read the paper (PDF)The 10-year field study: month-end reports routinely missed 30–78% of a month’s costs — the evidence behind “you find the slip too late.”
Read the studyThe same engine extended into enterprise risk — requests carry risk codes and thresholds, turning coordination into a live early-warning system.
Read the paper (PDF)Ratio-based triggers sampled from live operational data that raise and route alerts the moment a threshold is breached.
Read the paperA curated PDF tracing the model from its 2013 foundations through the 10-year field study to the ICEC–PAQS 2018 scheduling extension — the “what,” the “why it matters,” and where it leads.
One email with the PDF. No spam, unsubscribe anytime. — Indicio d.o.o.
MPC is a new product — but not a new idea, and not a new team. It comes from Indicio d.o.o., a Croatian software company whose coordination model has been running inside its own enterprise ERP for years. MPC takes that proven core and packages it as a focused, standalone product for the world beyond our home market.
MPC is being readied for its first deployments. If your projects bleed out through unseen delays — and you want coordination you can actually hold people accountable to — we’d like to hear from you.
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