PROJECT WORKSPACE PRIORITIZATION

• US 20150363733A1
• Filed: 06/12/2014
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: BROWN, Michael S.
• Granted Patent: US 10,062,045 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management

Abstract

Prioritization of project workspaces is provided herein. Data items are grouped into project workspaces based on workspace identifiers with which the data items have been tagged. Grouped data items included in a project workspace are tagged with a common workspace identifier that indicates association with a project corresponding to the project workspace, the project including tasks for a user. Priority of the project workspace is determined relative to priority of other project workspaces and based on ascertaining priorities of the tasks of the project by analyzing the grouped data items included in the project workspace. An indication of the priority of the project workspace relative to priority of the other project workspaces is provided for graphical presentation to the user, in order to facilitate focusing the user to a highest priority project workspace of the project workspaces.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

grouping data items into a plurality of project workspaces based on workspace identifiers with which the data items have been tagged, wherein grouped data items included in a project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces are tagged with a common workspace identifier, the common workspace identifier indicating association of the grouped data items with a project to which the project workspace corresponds, wherein the project includes one or more tasks for a user;

determining, by a processor, priority of the project workspace relative to priority of one or more other project workspaces of the plurality of project workspaces, wherein the priority of the project workspace is determined based on ascertaining priorities of the one or more tasks of the project by analyzing the grouped data items included in the project workspace; and

providing an indication of the priority of the project workspace relative to priority of the one or more other project workspaces for graphical presentation to the user, to facilitate focusing the user to a highest priority project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically dynamically updating the priority of the project workspace relative to priority of the one or more other project workspaces, based on detecting that a change has been made to the project workspace.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein detecting that the change has been made to the project workspace comprises detecting an addition of a data item in the project workspace.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein detecting that the change has been made to the project workspace comprises determining that a change has been made to a priority of a task of the one or more tasks.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

detecting a change to an attribute of an existing data item included in the project workspace and, in response, changing the priority of the task, and

based on changing the priority of the task, changing priority of the project workspace relative to priority of the one or more other project workspaces of the plurality of project workspaces.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising tagging the grouped data items with the common workspace identifier, wherein the tagging comprises:

detecting that a data item has been created by a user working within the project workspace; and

automatically tagging the created data item with the common workspace identifier corresponding to the project workspace, to include the created data item within the project workspace.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking time spent by a user working within the project workspace, and providing an indication to an external system of an amount of time spent by the user working within the project workspace.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the indication of the priority of the project workspace comprises presenting an interactive user interface to the user, the user interface providing a visual indication of priority of the plurality of project workspaces relative to each other based on importance of completing tasks of the plurality of project workspaces, wherein each project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces is represented in the user interface by a respective graphical container.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the visual indication of priority for the project workspace comprises at least one of (i) sizing the graphical container or (ii) migrating the graphical container toward a focal point of the user interface, according to priority of the project workspace.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the visual indication of priority for the highest priority project workspace comprises bringing the graphical container of the highest priority project workspace to a front of the user interface.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising temporarily de-prioritizing the project workspace, the temporarily de-prioritizing comprising:

based on the user gesturing on the user interface to de-prioritize the project workspace, moving the graphical container of the project workspace away from a focal point of the user interface; and

automatically moving the graphical container of the project workspace back toward the focal point over a duration of time set based on ascertaining priorities of the one or more tasks of the project.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the interactive user interface is provided to the user on a mobile device, and wherein the method further comprises bringing to a front of the user interface the project workspace based on receiving an incoming communication from another user associated with a grouped data item of the project workspace.

13. A computer system comprising:

a memory; and

a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the system is configured to perform a method comprising;

grouping data items into a plurality of project workspaces based on workspace identifiers with which the data items have been tagged, wherein grouped data items included in a project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces are tagged with a common workspace identifier, the common workspace identifier indicating association of the grouped data items with a project to which the project workspace corresponds, wherein the project includes one or more tasks for a user;

determining priority of the project workspace relative to priority of one or more other project workspaces of the plurality of project workspaces, wherein the priority of the project workspace is determined based on ascertaining priorities of the one or more tasks of the project by analyzing the grouped data items included in the project workspace; and

providing an indication of the priority of the project workspace relative to priority of the one or more other project workspaces for graphical presentation to the user, to facilitate focusing the user to a highest priority project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces.

14. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises automatically dynamically updating the priority of the project workspace relative to priority of the one or more other project workspaces, based on detecting that a change has been made to the project workspace.

15. The computer system of claim 14, wherein detecting that the change has been made to the project workspace comprises determining that a change has been made to a priority of a task of the one or more tasks.

16. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises tagging the grouped data items with the common workspace identifier, wherein the tagging comprises:

detecting that a data item has been created by a user working within the project workspace; and

automatically tagging the created data item with the common workspace identifier corresponding to the project workspace, to include the created data item within the project workspace.

17. The computer system of claim 13, wherein providing the indication of the priority of the project workspace comprises presenting an interactive user interface to the user, the user interface providing a visual indication of priority of the plurality of project workspaces relative to each other based on importance of completing tasks of the plurality of project workspaces, wherein each project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces is represented in the user interface by a respective graphical container.

18. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

grouping data items into a plurality of project workspaces based on workspace identifiers with which the data items have been tagged, wherein grouped data items included in a project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces are tagged with a common workspace identifier, the common workspace identifier indicating association of the grouped data items with a project to which the project workspace corresponds, wherein the project includes one or more tasks for a user;

determining priority of the project workspace relative to priority of one or more other project workspaces of the plurality of project workspaces, wherein the priority of the project workspace is determined based on ascertaining priorities of the one or more tasks of the project by analyzing the grouped data items included in the project workspace; and

providing an indication of the priority of the project workspace relative to priority of the one or more other project workspaces for graphical presentation to the user, to facilitate focusing the user to a highest priority project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the method further comprises automatically dynamically updating the priority of the project workspace relative to priority of the one or more other project workspaces, based on detecting that a change has been made to the project workspace.

20. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein providing the indication of the priority of the project workspace comprises presenting an interactive user interface to the user, the user interface providing a visual indication of priority of the plurality of project workspaces relative to each other based on importance of completing tasks of the plurality of project workspaces, wherein each project workspace of the plurality of project workspaces is represented in the user interface by a respective graphical container.