Patent ID: 8065177
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-assisted method for completing a project comprising: gathering, at a computer processor, information regarding the project; automatically analyzing the information, by the computer processor, to produce a risk score corresponding to an expected risk associated with the project, wherein the information analyzed to produce the risk score comprises information selected from the group consisting of: a confidence level of the availability of required resources, a level of technical complexity, a degree of potential cost reduction, a degree of potential revenue improvement, a degree of potential reduction in legal risk, a degree of potential reduction in regulatory risk, a degree of potential customer impact, a number of internal associates impacted, and a number of lines of business impacted; automatically analyzing the information, by the computer processor, to produce a rigor score corresponding to an expected rigor associated with the project, wherein the information analyzed to produce the rigor score comprises information selected from the group consisting of: an estimated cost of the project, a number of critical-to-quality variables affected, a number of lines of business affected, a number of products impacted, a number of systems impacted, a number of applications impacted, an extent of external customer impact, a likelihood of benefit realization, an amount of potential expense reduction, an amount of potential revenue improvement, and an amount of potential incremental cost avoidance; identifying instructions for completing the project, using the computer processor, based on the risk score and the rigor score, the instructions comprising a plurality of actions; and transmitting at least a portion of the instructions from the computer processor to an output device to enable a person to perform at least some of the actions to complete the project.