PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20120130907A1
• Filed: 11/22/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dux Global, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Execution Software LLC
• Inventors: Thompson, John L., Walsh, Daniel P.
• Application Number:
  US13/303,039
• Publication Number:
  US 20120130907A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/301
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management

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.

Claims

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.

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:

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.

3. The project management interface for creating projects within project management software according to claim 2, wherein dependencies between tasks can be created by graphically drawing arrows between the task boxes.

4. The project management interface for creating projects within project management software according to claim 2, wherein the boxes are color coded.

5. The project management interface for creating projects within project management software according to claim 2, further comprising a contingent mode to show what would happen if a status of a task is changed.

6. The project management interface for creating projects within project management software according to claim 2, wherein a status bar is associated with each task box.

7. A computer system that is programmed to determine a dynamic drum resource, the computer system comprising:

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.