SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING PROJECT DESIGN DECISIONS

• US 20120124549A1
• Filed: 11/12/2010
• Published: 05/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: ROBINSON, PHILLIP JAMES
• Application Number:
  US12/945,368
• Publication Number:
  US 20120124549A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services

Abstract

A computer-based method for capturing project design decisions includes: providing a main page and at least one secondary page; receiving information from users and placing it on the secondary page; forming a secondary page summary text portion on one of the secondary pages in response to a tag command received from an authorized user; and linking the secondary page summary text portion to a summary text portion on the main page.

Claims

1. A system for capturing project design decisions, comprising:

a computing system; and

logic executing on the computing system, the logic implementing a method comprising;

maintaining a main page and at least one secondary page;

allowing users of the computing system to provide information to the at least one secondary page;

forming a secondary page summary text portion on one of the secondary pages; and

linking the secondary page summary text portion to a summary text portion on the main page, wherein authorization to cause the linking is limited to a subset of the users.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein linking is responsive to the activatiuon of a tag selector by a user and includes:

assigning a category to the summary text portion.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the category is one of:

design principle, design decision and system quality.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the category includes a sub-category, the subcategory being one of:

performance, scalability, and modularity.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the project is a software development design project.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

versioning at least one of the secondary pages; and

wherein linking occurs between the main page and a particular version of the at least one secondary page.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein secondary page summary text portions are related to one or more explanation section.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one secondary page is a wild.

9. A computer-based method for capturing project design decisions, the method comprising:

providing a main page and at least one secondary page;

receiving information from users and placing it on the secondary page;

forming a secondary page summary text portion on one of the secondary pages in response to a tag command received from an authorized user; and

linking the secondary page summary text portion to a summary text portion on the main page.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the summary text portion and the secondary page summary text portion include the same text.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein linking includes:

assigning a category to the summary text portion.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the category is one of:

design principle, design decision and system quality.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the category includes a sub-category, the subcategory being one of:

performance, scalability, and modularity.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the project is a software development design project.

15. A computer program product for capturing project design decisions, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon, which when executed by a computer cause the computer to implement the method of claim 9.