Patent ID: 8910111

Claim:
A method, comprising: storing, in an electronic database, information associated with a software development project, the information including start and end dates of particular efforts made in connection with the software development project and dates of specific events associated with the software development project; rendering on a display a timeline; rendering on the display a software map comprising: displaying a first branch and a second branch, each comprising a horizontal line representing the particular software development efforts that extend between endpoints defined, by the start and end dates, and that are aligned with a time scale of the timeline; extending a line between the first branch and the second branch, wherein the line represents a software code branch event comprising the start date of the development of software associated with the second branch, and wherein the first branch and the second branch persist on the timeline after the software code branch event; and in response to receiving, from an Application Programming Interface (API), a software code merge event merging software code associated with the second branch into a portion of software code associated with the first branch, automatically extending a second line between the second branch and the first branch, wherein the second branch terminates on the timeline after the software code merge event; and in response to receiving the software code merge event, automatically updating data associated with the second branch and the first branch; and in response to hovering over a selected branch, rendering a window in a foreground that provides text-based details about the selected branch and further rendering a line connecting the window to the selected branch, the text-based details at least including information regarding branch status of being active or inactive.