Patent ID: 6609100
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A system for developing a schedule for managing a project, including:a relational database containing data representing a plurality of activities and attributes representing complications, requirements and dependencies of respective ones of said activities stored in a memory, a scheduler application, and an interface between said relational database and said scheduler application, said interface including means for displaying a serial string of questions to a user together with data from said relational database which assist a user in answering said questions, including means for defining a list of questions in a predetermined sequence that must be answered for developing said schedule and means for providing a series of display screen containing said questions and data from said relational database which assist a user in answering said questions, to allow said user to define and edit one of activities and attributes of at least one of said plurality of activities stored in memory by answering said questions displayed in said display screen; means for editing said attributes, said editing means including means for allowing a user to input answers to said questions; means for storing said edited attributes in memory; means for grouping said activities in accordance with said edited attributes; and means for generating a schedule based on said activities grouped by said grouping means, wherein said displaying means displays said serial string of questions and said editing means edits said attributes before said generating means generates said schedule.