Patent ID: 8621466
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computerized progress management method for a project comprising a plurality of tasks having a hierarchical structure, comprising: receiving, by a computer hardware system, an indication of a “complete” or “incomplete” state as progress of each of a plurality of lowest order tasks of the project; and calculating, by the computer hardware system, progress of a higher order task based on the progress of the lowest order tasks, wherein levels of importance are preset for the lowest order tasks, respectively, a level of importance of the higher order task is preset independently of a sum of levels of importance of all the lowest order tasks included in the higher order task, and the calculating the progress of the higher order task includes calculating the progress of the higher order task with an operation of (a sum of levels of importance of completed lowest order tasks included in the higher order task)/(a level of importance of the higher order task).