Patent ID: 8028294

Claim:
A computerized progress management method for a project comprising a plurality of tasks having a hierarchical structure, the computerized progress management method comprising: receiving, by a computer hardware system, an indication of a “complete” or “incomplete” state as progress of each of lowest order tasks of the project, wherein the project has an at least 3-level hierarchical structure including a high order task, middle order tasks, and low order tasks as the lowest order tasks; and calculating, by the computer hardware system, progress rate of a higher order task based on progress rates of the middle order tasks and levels of importance associated with the middle order tasks, wherein the levels of importance associated with the middle tasks are preset for the middle tasks, levels of importance associated with the lowest order tasks are preset for the lowest order tasks, a level of importance of the higher order task is preset independently of a sum of levels of importance of all the lowest order tasks and a sum of level of importance of all the middle tasks included in the higher order task, the progress rates of the middle order tasks is calculated based on progress rates of the lowest order tasks and the levels of importance associated with the lowest order tasks, and a progress rate of a middle order task is calculated based on a sum of level of importance of completed lowest order tasks divided by a level of importance of the middle task, and the calculating the progress rate of the higher order task includes calculating the progress rate of the higher order task by dividing the progress rates of the middle tasks included in the higher order task multiplied by sum of levels of importance of the middle tasks over the level of importance of the higher order task.