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METHOD FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • US 20070288283A1
  • Filed: 06/07/2007
  • Published: 12/13/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for project management by adding risk-based adjustments to a schedule for a project, the project having a plurality of tasks, each task having an estimated duration and one or more dependencies on other tasks, the project further having one of a plurality of team members assigned for executing each of the tasks and a project store for storing the task estimated duration, dependency and team member information for each task, the method comprising the steps of:

  • collecting all of the tasks in the project;

    collecting, for each task, all of the predecessor tasks from which the task has a dependency;

    adding to the collected predecessor tasks, for each predecessor task, any other predecessor tasks from which the predecessor task has dependencies until all predecessor tasks have been collected;

    adding a risk-based adjustment to the finish date of each of the collected predecessor tasks, the risk-based adjustment comprising;

    a distraction rate for the team member assigned to predecessor task; and

    a time estimation error rate for the team member assigned to the predecessor task; and

    rescheduling each of the tasks in the project to start on the business day after the latest finish date of any of the predecessor tasks of the task.

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