Patent ID: 8655696
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented system for operating a computer processor to schedule management for a project comprising: a structure information obtaining unit configured to obtain structure information containing both information on general components including parent or child components to be developed in the project and information on dependency relationships between the general components, the information on dependency relationships containing at least an inclusion relationship and a coupling relationship including a plurality of the parent components with at least one child component; and a management unit configured to determine work items and a work execution order on the basis of the structure information obtained by the structure information obtaining unit, and for managing the determined work items and work execution order as work schedule definition information; a detailed item determining unit configured to read detailed item templates corresponding to work patterns of the general components from a detailed item storage unit, on the basis of work pattern properties received from the structure information obtaining unit, and to register the contents of each of the read detailed item templates in a work breakdown structure, wherein the management unit is configured to extract a group of previously registered ones of the general components that is less than all of the previously registered components, match each of a plurality of the general components in the extracted group with at least one of the previously registered components, and extract a further group of the previously registered components until all of the general components to be developed in the project are registered, wherein in response to one of the general components being neither a connector component nor a constraint component, a model diagram including the structure information is referenced to determine a value of the one of the general components; wherein the management unit is configured to divide the work items into a plurality of sequenced phases for executing the work items, wherein the plurality of sequenced phases are work stages for executing the work items, wherein the management unit is configured to determine one of the work items related to a leaf component, which is a general component not including any other general component, and to determine, in a case where all of a plurality of the general components included in a single predetermined general component are the leaf components, one of the work items related to a coupling relationship between the leaf components, wherein the management unit is configured to store a plurality of sequence numbers for each of a plurality of levels of information regarding the work items, and wherein the work execution order is determined by cycling through the plurality of levels of information regarding the work items in ascending level order and the plurality of sequenced phases in ascending phase order and referencing a time required to complete the work items.