Patent ID: 6966061

Claim:
A system for managing a plurality of program initiatives, comprising: a program initiative management tool comprising: a computer for managing a plurality of program initiatives; a list of the plurality of program initiatives including identification information related to the program initiatives and a list of tasks and subtasks that are scheduled to be performed during each program initiative, and for each task and subtask to be performed for a particular program initiative, wherein each program initiative is accomplished independently of any other program initiative wherein further, each program initiative produces a project result independent of any other project result: a target date of completion wherein the target date is entered in a manner to differentiate a status of the corresponding task and subtask; a program initiative delivery process document comprising: a list of business functionalities entered in a differentiated manner, a list of activities to be performed by the business functionalities, the activities corresponding to at least one task and at least one subtask in the program initiative management tool, and description of business functionalities that are used as one or more resources for the activities; a flag to indicate the availability of the resource to meet the target date of completion for the task and subtask; a jeopardy entered for each task for which a resource is not available when required wherein the jeopardy indicates a conflict of a resource with another task in another program initiative; and a relational database for storing information related to activities, resources and flags that describe the entries in the program initiative delivery process document.