Patent Document ID: 9811792
Application ID: 14730998

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for selecting developer resources for a software development project during its design, said method comprising: automatically detecting a change in a software architecture model being built, said detected change comprising one of: an addition of a new element, a deletion of an element in the software architecture model or a change to an existing element of said software architecture model, said method further comprising: evaluating, upon said detection, each detected change against a currently assigned resource skill set for resources used in developing said software architecture model, and one or more of: automatically determining a developer resource candidate of developer resources currently associated with said project to be removed upon evaluating a deletion of an element in the software architecture model; or automatically determining an existing developer resource candidate to take on additional work upon evaluating an addition or update of an element in the software architecture model; or automatically locating a new developer resource if no existing developer resource can take on said additional work, wherein one or more programmed processor devices is configured to run said automatic change detecting, said detected change evaluating, and said automatic developer resource candidate determining, said automatic determining an existing developer resource candidate, and said automatically locating.

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Claim 11:
11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when said detected change comprises one of: an addition of a new element or a change to an existing element of said software architecture model, said evaluating said determined skill set of developer resources associated with said the each detected change against a skill-set of available developer resources currently associated with said development project comprises: automatically determining whether a skill set of said developer resource associated with a change partially matches a skill-set of available currently associated developer resources; and if a partial match is determined: refining the change or update associated with the software architecture model; and determining, for each refined change, a skill set of developer resources associated with the change; and evaluating said determined skill set of developer resources associated with the each refined change against a skill-set of available developer resources currently associated with said development project.