Patent ID: 8706535

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing a project plan containing prioritized tasks, the method comprising: maintaining, by a computing system, a project plan having a plurality of projects, each of the plurality of projects having at least one task; creating, by the computing system, a work package that is configured to contain a plurality of tasks from at least two different projects; receiving, by the computing system, a selection of a task for inclusion in the work package, the task selected from tasks in one of the plurality of projects in the project plan; adding, by the computing system, a copy of the selected task to the work package while maintaining the selected task in the project from which it was selected; receiving, by the computing system, a prioritization of the selected task in the work package that is different from the prioritization of the selected task in the project from which it was selected; identifying, by the computing system, tasks in the plurality of projects that have a lower priority than the selected task in the work package; reprioritizing, by the computing system, the identified tasks in the plurality of projects to account for the received prioritization of the selected task in the work package; and presenting a graphical representation of the project plan on an output display.