PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPLICATION INCLUDING COMPETENCY SEARCH CAPABILITY

• US 20140324496A1
• Filed: 01/09/2014
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Jun, Se-Yong
• Application Number:
  US14/151,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20140324496A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.14
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task

Abstract

A project management application includes tables associating tasks, human resources, and competencies and provides for searching by a competency to find human resources having the competency or the tasks utilizing the competency, searching by human resource to find the competencies had by the human resource or the tasks to which the human resource has been assigned; or searching by task name to determine which human resources or competencies were utilized on a task. A common interface is used with the project management application.

Claims

1. A method, performed by one or more processors, comprising:

associating, in response to user input to a user interface (UI) of a project management application and using the one or more processors, a human resource as a team member of a specified task of a project;

associating, in response to user input to the UI of the project management application and using the one or more processors, selected competencies to the specified task;

associating, in response to user input to the UI of the project management application and using the one or more processors, one or more of the selected competencies to the human resource; and

searching, using the one or more processors and in response to user input to a search widget displayed in the UI of the project/management application, for relationships between associated tasks, competencies and human resources.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

associating human resources, task names and competencies in database tables of a relational database.

3. The method of claim 1 where searching, using the one or more processors, comprises:

searching by competency name to determine human resources associated with a competency.

4. The method of claim 1 where searching, using the one or more processors, comprises:

searching by human resource name to determine competencies associated with a human resource.

5. The method of claim 1 where associating, in response to user input to the UI of the project management application and using the one or more processors, selected competencies to the specified task further comprises:

authorizing a team member to associate to the specified task.

6. The method of claim 1 where competencies include technology fields and skills.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying the search widget as a pop-up in the UI of the project management application.

8. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

maintaining the database table using the project management application.

9. The method of claim 1 where searching, using the one or more processors, comprises:

searching by task name to find competencies used in similar tasks.

10. The method of claim 1 where searching, using the one or more processors, comprises:

searching by task name to find human resources assigned to specific tasks.

11. The method of claim 1 where searching, using the one or more computers, comprises:

searching by human resource name to determine to which tasks the human resource is/has been assigned.

12. The method of claim 1 where searching, using the one or more computers, comprises:

searching by competency name to determine which tasks are associated with that competency.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising encoded program code for execution by one or more computer processors on a computer, the program code when executed is executable to perform the acts of:

associating, in response to user input to a user interface (UI) of a project management application, a human resource as a team member of a specified task of a project;

associating, in response to user input to the UI of the project management application, selected competencies to the specified task;

associating, in response to user input to the UI of the project management application, one or more of the selected competencies to the human resource; and

searching, in response to user input to a search widget displayed in the UI of the project/management application, for relationships between associated tasks, competencies and human resources.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 with the program when executed further performing the act of:

associating human resources, task names and competencies in database tables of a relational database.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 with the program when executed further performing the act of:

searching by competency name to determine human resources associated with a competency.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 with the program when executed further performing the act of:

searching by human resource name to determine competencies associated with a human resource.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 with the program when executed further performing the act of:

searching by task name to find competencies used in similar tasks.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 with the program when executed further performing the act of:

searching by task name to find human resources assigned to specific tasks.

19. An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

logic encoded in one or more non-transitory computer readable media for execution by the one or more processors and with the one or more processors, when executing the logic, performing the acts of;

associating, in response to user input to a user interface (UI) of a project management application, a human resource as a team member of a specified task of a project;

associating, in response to user input to the UI of the project management application, selected competencies to the specified task;

associating, in response to user input to the UI of the project management application, one or more of the selected competencies to the human resource; and

searching, in response to user input to a search widget displayed in the UI of the project/management application, for relationships between associated tasks, competencies and human resources.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 with the logic, when executed, further performing the act of:

searching by competency name to determine human resources associated with a competency.