Patent ID: 8694487

Claim:
A project management system comprising: a database formed of tables; and a computing device to, receive project data including work plans describing time frames for deliverables for a project; receive identifier data, wherein the identifier data identifies teams of individuals authorized to work on the deliverables, wherein the teams of individuals are assigned to the deliverables in a one-to-one relationship; store the received project data in the tables based upon the identifier data, wherein the tables comprise a work product table containing project data pertaining to work products, an action item table containing project data pertaining to action items, a defect table containing project data pertaining to defects, a journal table containing project data pertaining to journals, and a time series table containing project data pertaining to time series; identify multiple variations of combinations of the project data stored in the work product table, the action item table, the defect table, the journal table, and the time series table; predict different outcomes for the project resulting from the identified multiple variations; and identify an optimal variation of the multiple variations based on the predicted different outcomes, wherein to identify the optimal variation, the computing device is to compute, for each of the predicted different outcomes, one or more metrics associated with performance of the project.