Project workflow system
First Claim
1. A project workflow system comprising a project management component and a workflow component wherein the project management component manages the tasks of a project and determines the task-to-task connections and the workflow component processes project routes and route segments whereby each task is related to a route segment that implements the task process and a project route is created by connecting the route segments related to the tasks in accordance with the task-to-task connections.
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Abstract
This invention is related to project planning and management systems and in particular to the control and tracking of the execution of the process steps that comprise a project. In the present invention, a project is divided into tasks for which the time and resources are estimated, the connections among the tasks established, and from these the overall schedule and resources calculated. A workflow route segment is a sequence of process steps to implement a task. A route segment is developed for each task and the route segments are connected based on the task-to-task connections to form a project route. The execution of the project is tracked by relating the completion of a step of the project route to the completion of a portion of the related task. If the project is re-planned and new task-to-task connections are created, a new project route is created by connecting the route segments related to tasks using the new task-to-task connections.
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- 1. A project workflow system comprising a project management component and a workflow component wherein the project management component manages the tasks of a project and determines the task-to-task connections and the workflow component processes project routes and route segments whereby each task is related to a route segment that implements the task process and a project route is created by connecting the route segments related to the tasks in accordance with the task-to-task connections.
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11. A project workflow route which is constructed by dividing the project into tasks;
- determining a connection relationship among the tasks;
relate to each task a route segment that implements the task process; and
connecting the route segments in the same relationship as the connection of the related tasks. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
- determining a connection relationship among the tasks;
- 16. A project management workflow system wherein a project is divided into tasks, the task-to-task connections determined, each task is related to a workflow route segment that implements the task process, wherein the route segment related to a task is executed in accordance to the task-to-task connections of the task.
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