Progress management system

• US 20070073575A1
• Filed: 09/21/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yomogida, Yoshikazu
• Application Number:
  US11/524,288
• Publication Number:
  US 20070073575A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063114 Status monitoring or status determination for a person or group

Abstract

A progress management system employing a progress map that enables the visual monitoring of the progress status of an overall operation, the amount of each task, progress status or the like for each person in charge, in addition to the status of progress of each task, on a single screen. A progress management screen 2100 includes a progress map display portion 2110 and a person-in-charge list display portion 2120. The progress map display portion 2110, based on a Gantt chart, shows a progress map consisting of task units 2111 indicating individual tasks and a connection line connecting adjacent task units 2111 in a graph structure. On a task unit 2111, persons in charge of associated tasks, progress ratio 2112, and a task unit value 2114 based on the progress ratio 2112 and value 2113 are displayed. In the person-in-charge list display portion 2120, a list of persons in charge with associated task units and a sum of task unit values for each person in charge are displayed as a person-in-charge result value 2121.

Claims

1. A progress management system comprising:

a plurality of person-in-charge'"'"'s terminals; and

a manager'"'"'s terminal connected to the person-in-charge'"'"'s terminals via a network, wherein the manager'"'"'s terminal, based on progress information about tasks received from the person-in-charge'"'"'s terminals, generating and displaying progress management information about a project,

the manager'"'"'s terminal comprising;

progress map generating means for generating, based on task attribute information that is arbitrarily entered about progress management of each task, progress management information, and associating the progress management information with each task unit, the progress map generating means also generating a progress map that shows the tasks in the form of a graph structural chart in which a task unit and adjacent task units are connected by a connection line;

person-in-charge assigning means for displaying person-in-charge identifying information, which identifies a person in charge who is arbitrarily assigned to each task unit on the progress map, on each task unit; and

progress information display means for receiving progress information that is registered in the person-in-charge'"'"'s terminals for each task unit, and displaying the degree of progress of a task based on the progress information in association with each task unit on the progress map,

each person-in-charge'"'"'s terminal includeing a progress map display means for receiving the progress map, on which the person-in-charge identifying information and the degree of progress of the task are shown, and displaying it on the person-in-charge'"'"'s terminal.

2. The progress management system according to claim 1, wherein the manager'"'"'s terminal further comprises:

person-in-charge region setting means for setting, based on the person-in-charge identifying information, a person-in-charge region boundary that divides regions including the task units assigned to the individual persons in charge, and displaying a region boundary line that represents the person-in-charge region boundary on the progress map.

3. The progress management system according to claim 1, wherein the person-in-charge'"'"'s terminal further comprises progress information registration means for accepting the registration of progress information about a task unit that is assigned to each person in charge on the progress map.

4. The progress management system according to claim 1, wherein the progress map generating means further comprises means for arranging the individual task units on the progress map in accordance with one or a plurality of reference positions that are arbitrarily designated in advance and based on priority set for each task unit.

5. The progress management system according to claim 4, wherein the progress map generating means further comprises means for setting the priority based on the task attribute information.

6. The progress management system according to claim 1, wherein the progress map generating means further comprises means for displaying a task list input screen for accepting the entry of task attribute information for each task, and generating the progress management information based on the task attribute information entered on the task list input screen.

7. The progress management system according to claim 6, wherein the progress map generating means displays an input screen in the Gantt chart format as the task list input screen for accepting the setting of a planned task period for each task.

8. The progress management system according to claim 1, wherein the task information includes value that is arbitrarily set for each task, and wherein the progress information display means further comprises means for calculating, for each task unit on the progress map, a result value for each task based on the degree of progress and the value, and displaying the result value on a corresponding task unit.

9. The progress management system according to claim 1, wherein the progress information display means further comprises means for tallying the result value of each task of each person in charge to whom the task is assigned, and displaying the result of tallying.

10. The progress management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for accepting a transfer setting from a person-in-charge'"'"'s terminal of a person in charge indicated by person-in-charge identifying information set in a task unit on the progress map;

means for accepting an acquisition application from a person-in-charge'"'"'s terminal of a person in charge indicated by the person-in-charge identifying information that is set in a task unit adjacent, across the person-in-charge region boundary, to a task unit that is set as a transfer object; and

means for accepting an acquisition approval setting from the manager'"'"'s terminal in response to the acquisition application, changing the setting of the person in charge assigned to the task unit and the person-in-charge region boundary, and displaying the result of the change on the progress map.

11. The progress management system according to claim 2, further comprising means for determining, concerning the task unit of each person in charge on the progress map, whether or not a predetermined arrangement change condition is met, and changing the arrangement of the task unit for each person-in-charge region if the arrangement change condition is met.

12. The progress management system according to claim 1, wherein each person-in-charge'"'"'s terminal comprises means for setting referencing right for referencing task information about a task unit assigned to a person in charge other than the person in charge of the person-in-charge'"'"'s terminal.

13. The progress management system according to claim 1, wherein the progress information display means further comprises means for setting a display area of a task unit on the progress map in accordance with value, priority, progress degree, or task unit value.