Patent ID: 7269798

Claim:
An information processing method for project management comprising steps of: storing data regarding names of a plurality of tasks which constitute a project and an order relationship between the tasks in the project; storing detail information including an associated document of one or more of the individual tasks in the project; displaying in a first display area a table of the plurality of tasks which constitute the project; receiving a user input selection of a target one of the tasks from the first display area; displaying a second display area corresponding to the selected target task and an icon within the second display area, wherein the icon corresponds to a document associated with the selected target task in the project; performing document work according to a user input instruction, for the document corresponding to the icon displayed in the second display area; identifying a succeeding task in the project, based on the order relationship between the tasks in the project; displaying a third display area; and in response to a user input, moving the icon corresponding to the document associated with the selected target task from the second display area to the third display area, and registering the document corresponding to said icon as an associated document of the succeeding task.