Patent ID: 7440905
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. Risk management software embodied upon a computer-readable medium, the software comprising a set of instructions for the following steps to be performed when the software is executed: a) accessing, from a project data store, project data comprising a plurality of action identifiers in a nested arrangement, each of which identifies a separate action to be performed; b) analysing the project data to identify a plurality of activities, ordered in a nested arrangement, each activity being thereby linked to at least one of the actions, wherein to at least some of the plurality of activities which is assigned at least one risk indicator, the at least one risk indicator identifying consequences of a risk on the activity; c) on the basis of one or more mitigating tasks identified to reduce or prevent the risk or the consequences of the risk, outputting to the project data in the project data store one or more new action identifiers or alterations to existing action identifiers in the project data, and adjusting the nested arrangement of the action identifiers accordingly; and d) accessing changes to the project data and revising the plurality of activities in dependence on whether the changes are to action identifiers in the project data resulting from step c) above.