Patent ID: 9043745
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for evaluating team performance in a product development environment, the method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, (i) a plurality of points of effort completed by a team over a plurality of days in a time period, wherein each points of effort corresponds to a day within the time period on which the effort is made with respect to the completion of at least one functionality, and (ii) a second plurality of points of effort made by a second team over a second plurality of days in a second time period; calculating, by the computing device, a slope corresponding to the team, comprising: repeating steps (a) and (b), by the computing device, to calculate a second slope associated with the second plurality of points of effort over the second plurality of days in the second time period corresponding to the second team; computing, by the computing device, at least one of (i) a deviation of the slope from an ideal slope corresponding to a desired performance rate for the team or (ii) a second deviation of the second slope from a second ideal slope corresponding to a desire performance rate for the second team, the deviation or the second deviation providing a quantitative measure of the performance of the corresponding team over the corresponding plurality of days, wherein a positive deviation indicates over delivery by the corresponding team and a negative deviation indicates under delivery by the corresponding team; comparing, by the computing device, the slope and the second slope to quantitatively evaluate the performance of the team against the second team; and generating, by the computing device, a display illustrating at least one of the deviation, the second deviation or the comparison between the slope and the second slope.