PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD
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1. A project management system comprising:
- a remote server programmed to generate a graphic user interface that can be accessed by remote user devices;
the graphic user interface including;
project and portfolio dashboards for quick status display, a portfolio and project status graphic that has a quick view of percentage completed and a status category of one or more projects; and
a portfolio early warning graphic that provides a graphical indicator of whether projects are at risk for violating a critical chain.
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Abstract
A project management system includes graphical user interfaces for creating, and tracking projects. Status dashboards for both projects and project portfolios allow a user to quickly view the status of their projects and determine which projects are at risk. An algorithm for determining a risk quotient is described for determining risk status of projects. A PERT chart includes status buffers to better understand what projects are at risk.
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1. A project management system comprising:
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a remote server programmed to generate a graphic user interface that can be accessed by remote user devices; the graphic user interface including;
project and portfolio dashboards for quick status display, a portfolio and project status graphic that has a quick view of percentage completed and a status category of one or more projects; and
a portfolio early warning graphic that provides a graphical indicator of whether projects are at risk for violating a critical chain.
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2. A project management interface for creating projects within project management software, whereby several remote users can interact simultaneously within a single graphical user interface to create a project, the interface comprising:
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a task creation field; and dialog boxes that represent tasks and prompt input of necessary information to create tasks;
the boxes being adapted to be graphically moved around on the task creation field. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer system that is programmed to determine a dynamic drum resource, the computer system comprising:
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a computer readable medium programmed to determine each of a plurality of resources loading across a portfolio of projects; the computer readable medium further programmed such that any resource with a utilization of greater than a maximum utilization percentage cannot be selected as the dynamic drum resource; the computer readable medium being further programmed to determine a first subset of the plurality of resources common to a preset percentage of the projects in the portfolio; the computer readable medium being further programmed to determine a second subset of resources that is used over a duration greater than a specified minimum percentage duration of each project from the first subset; the computer readable medium being further programmed to calculate for each of the resources in the second subset a total duration of the portfolio of projects if that resource is the dynamic drum resource; the computer readable medium being further programmed to calculate and store a standard deviation of a maximum resource utilization throughout an entire duration of the portfolio of projects; and the computer readable medium being further programmed to select as the dynamic drum resource the resource that had the shortest calculated total duration that also had a calculated standard deviation of less than 1.5.
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