Patent ID: 7533033

Claim:
A system for building and operating infrastructure for an event, comprising: information technology for a build and operate program, wherein the information technology includes computer systems or telecommunications equipment, the computer systems or telecommunications equipment including software embodied in computer-readable media and including hardware, and wherein the program includes: one or more build processes; one or more operate processes; and one or more management processes; and wherein the information technology includes data embodied in computer-readable media representing i) inputs and outputs for ones of said processes and ii) a plurality of links associated with respective ones of the inputs and outputs, wherein the links provide connections linking outputs from ones of said build, operate and management processes to inputs of respective other ones of the build, operate or management processes, wherein the data representing the linked process inputs and outputs provides a schedule of the processes for building and operating infrastructure for the event; wherein such a link has exit conditions embodied in computer-readable media of the information technology data and associated with the link, and the exit conditions for the link must be satisfied before the link can be traversed from output to input; wherein selected sets of sequentially-linked ones of the processes are assigned to selected project teams and the sets are designated as respective process streams embodied in computer-readable media of the information technology data, so that the teams are associated with the schedule of the build and operate processes; wherein planning milestones embodied in computer-readable media of the information technology data are designated for ones of the outputs having links spanning across two or more of the process streams, so that dependencies among teams having an impact on the schedule are identified; and wherein, to identify schedule risk, risk factors embodied in computer-readable media of the information technology data are assigned to the processes and the system generates a list of the processes for each team's process stream.