An efficient management of development projects needs reliable information about the current project status as well as likely but possibly implicit causes in case of project target abnormalities. The article describes a problem that e.g. a rising product complexity and variant variety results to a rapid product life cycle information growth and typically high resources expenditure to process reliable project status statements. To reach an effective solution to process reliable project status statements within development projects the article presents an approach to a systematic and integrated interpretation of existing digital product life-cycle information to reliable project status information. To realize the objective, the article presents a with project management principles extended PDM-system concept already prototypically realized with the military aircrafts EADS Military Germany and is already used for an efficient project controlling in the EF Typhoon project, successfully.
