121 results about "Project team" patented technology

A system and method configured to provide access to and management of information from a plurality of third party software development systems from a single application, where each software development system has a unique data module. Data is retrieved from third party software development tools and cached in a temporary repository to be merged and linked. Changes made are temporary until saved, at which point the changes are saved back to the software development system that originated the data. The system provides interactive manipulation and a consolidated view of merged data for more efficient management, collaboration and real-time editing without going into each individual software development system. This set up embraces and enhances the agile software development interaction while overcoming the software administration, management and maintenance issues of having a plurality of software development tools across a variety of project teams and locations, including geographically disperse locations.

A computer-implemented automated building design and modeling and construction project cost estimating and scheduling system (“DMES system”) is described. The DMES system provides a central source for all of the design and construction information for a construction project in a coordinated two-dimensional and three-dimensional spatial database that is freely accessible by all of the members of an interdisciplinary construction project team as a means to produce automatically coordinated design development and construction document information. The DMES system acquires and stores all of the appropriate design, engineering, and construction expertise and information available for any building type for use in automatically assembling and coordinating the design, cost-estimating, and scheduling for a construction project. In one embodiment, the DMES system consists of a plurality of objects, comprising elements and massing elements arranged in an assembly hierarchy. Each of the objects includes programming code that defines an interface and discrete internal functions that define its behavior. When instantiated in the database, the objects automatically create further instances of other objects in the hierarchy, which in turn do the same, thus assembling a complete building model automatically from the initial manually-placed instance. The building model enables automatic generation of drawings and cost and scheduling information. By running automatic iterations of the building model, multiple designs may be evaluated to determine the optimum design.

A collaborative engineering environment (CEE) enables the effective capture, management, communication, and exploitation of all product related information to a project team. The systematic employment of this information offers substantial improvements in productivity, cost savings, cycle time reductions, product integrity, and lifetime supportability of the system. Advanced CEE capabilities exploit and leverage the engineering, architectural and technological expertise of enterprise subject matter experts (domain experts) across multiple complex systems development and integration activities. The CEE provides a tightly coupled process automation using reusable product elements for coupling information with engineering processes and ensuring adherence to repeatable and traceable engineering processes. A product catalog provides a single information management point for intrinsic complex product characteristics and facilitates the propagation of that information to engineering teams incorporating the complex product into their system designs. The intrinsic complex product characteristics are augmented with implementation specific information to fully describe the complex product in the system design.

System and Methods for implementing a Internet-Based Group Cloud Management System (GCMS) comprised by several Cloud Management System sites (CMS sites), where providing institutions, means for: A) The Creation of the Educational Group comprised by: A1) Community CMS sites for Campuses and/or Groups of Users, A2) Personal CMS Sites for each Faculty, Staff, Student and Alumnus, A3) Project CMS sites for each Project Team. B) Communication within the Educational Group: B1) Among CMS Sites, B2) to e-mail and text-messaging devices. The CMS sites are reachable by their own domain names or sub-domain from the GCMS, and by any search engine. Each CMS site is multi-user and includes its own security system, user-defined and predefined pages for among others, Professional Profile, Web Apps, Virtual Desktop/Apps and Web/Cloud Services. Each CMS site is connected to the GCMS, allowing the Exchange of Information among CMS sites within the GCMS and among GCMS sites.

Automatically learning and providing software development team structure and methodologies. A software development knowledgebase repository is generated by mining for software processes data over a network of computer systems. A team structure specification and project requirement associated with a target project is received. A software development methodology is selected from the software development knowledgebase repository based on the team structure specification and project requirement associated with a target project, a team members knowledgebase, a teams knowledgebase, and a past projects knowledgebase. A machine learning module automatically learns a software development methodology to select. Based on the software development methodology, a software development environment infrastructure for the target project is built.

A method and apparatus that assesses the importance of projects in a portfolio of projects and allocates labor resources to multiple concurrent projects is provided. The method includes specifying clear project schedules that are readily testable for various projects and using labor categories for project schedule tasks requiring labor resources. The present design determines each project team member's productivity for each supported labor category and allocates project team members to the project tasks on a periodic basis such that the most important project tasks receive the most productive available project team members for each project's specified labor categories.

A method embodied as a web application that enables the automated construction of project teams from profiles contained in data sources accessible through the World Wide Web. The data sources may include social networks, blogs, web pages, and postings on online discussion forums. The locations of these data sources are supplied by a system administrator (during configuration and maintenance) and by registered users of the web application. The web application allows the system administrator to create a set of templates describing the kinds of roles and skills required by the users of the web application. The web application identifies potential team members referenced in the information sources and constructs a semantic network describing the skill sets and team suitability of those potential team members. The web application allows a registered user to enter the roles and capabilities required for a project team they wish to create. Once the user has entered a description of their desired project team, the application automatically constructs candidate teams by analyzing the semantic network to identify appropriate candidate teams given constraints on roles and skills. Four methods for identifying teams from the semantic network are provided. The system then provides the user with a set of recommended team members. In an iterative process, the user adjusts constraints on the team member capabilities until a satisfactory team is identified. The web application allows the user to negotiate compensation with the selected team, and provides a web-based collaboration page that the user and team may use for communication and coordination.

A method for identifying and using historical work patterns to build high-performance project teams, in one aspect, may comprise identifying historical data associated with one or more past projects, determining from said historical data, one or more patterns in team member attributes that are correlated with at least one of an individual determined to be successful and a project determined to be successful, and generating one or more staffing plans based on said determined patterns. A system and program storage device for performing finctionalities of the method are also provided.

An attrition warning and control system informs an employer as to the risk of attrition for an employee. The employee is assigned a discrete attrition category. The discrete attrition category is determined from an employee satisfaction behavior. The employee satisfaction behavior may be categorized according to its behavior type. Portal logic executed by the attrition warning and control system generates employee team attrition risk reports for employee teams. The portal logic also builds project team attrition risk reports from the employee team attrition risk reports. Reporting logic executed by the attrition warning and control system delivers the discrete attrition category, employee satisfaction behavior, the employee team attrition risk reports, and the project team attrition risk reports through an authorized connection via a communication interface.

A method and system for assessing the project testing practices of an organization is provided. In one embodiment, a consultant gathers current testing practices documentation and procedures for the project and then conducts an interview of at least one project team member utilizing templates and procedures provided by a testing practices assessment toolkit. The consultant then enters the results of the interview and the information obtained from the testing practices documentation and procedures into the toolkit. The toolkit then calculates maturity scores for a select number of key focal areas using formulas based on the industry to which the project belongs. The consultant then analyzes the current situation in the select number of key focal areas against industry best practices using the maturity scores calculated by the toolkit as an aid. The consultant then determines recommendations for the organization that would improve the testing practices of the organization.

An Internet-based integrated technology platform that simultaneously supports the management of Public Information Sites—Web sites used to both (1) inform the public; and (2) capture and manage public comment (including submission of images)—while at the same time providing support for electronic communication for project teams that manage public involvement projects. The support includes sharing of graphic, text and collaborative tasks. The system and method allow revisions to comments and dynamic feedback in agency decision making based on comments with greater responsiveness. The system is also suited for implementing charettes with a large number of participants.

Based on software developed with use-cases, a suite of metrics for the Product/Process (PP) complexity of software systems as well the PP complexity of each stage in the software development process—analysis, design, and testing—is provided. The metrics suite is important for software quality assurance—Validation and Verification (V&V) as well as for understanding new complexities brought into software development by new technologies. The metrics can be collected based on the two most important documents of use-case software development—scenario diagrams and state diagrams. All metrics are CASE tool computable. Thus, each iterative or incremental development process can be quantitatively measured and compared without incurring extra cost or load on the project team. Efficiency metrics for implementation and test stages, normalization rules and logic-metrics for business tables are also presented. A three-level software visualization approach may have impact on graphical programming or direct transformation.

A system and method for managing access rights to a project team area for a community development asset. The system includes an asset consumption dependency generator and a behavior pattern activity analyzer. The asset consumption dependency generator identifies a member of a project team area for a community development asset. The project team area defines access rights of individuals to the community development asset. The behavior pattern activity analyzer identifies a user within a collaborative development network associated with the identified member of the project team area. The behavior pattern activity analyzer also grants an access right to the identified user to access the community development asset based on a social map dependency between the identified user and the identified member.

A method and structure for coordinating resources to complete a design project prioritizes tasks to create a project plan, automatically notifies resources of task responsibilities and associated due dates based on the project plan through the use of encryption keys, controls access to the design data through the use of the encryption keys assigned to the resources, automatically monitors work being performed on tasks through a computerized network, and automatically notifies a project team leader of task completion status, overdue tasks, and tasks being ignored, based on the monitoring.

Systems and methods for the collaborative design, construction, and maintenance of fluid processing plants are provided. A collaborative commerce application may provide project management utilities, visualization utilities, dynamic pricing utilities, material procurement utilities, and certification utilities. These features may be integrated seamlessly into the collaborative commerce application. Communication among project team members in the design and construction of fluid processing plants may be made more efficient by providing automatic notifications via the collaborative commerce application. Version control may be used to ensure project team members are working with the latest designs and revisions. Access controls and other security features may be used to prevent confidential data from being disseminated unnecessarily.

The invention provides a construction project management system/method, a computer readable storage medium and a terminal. The management system comprises a reminding item management module which receives the checking instruction of a reminding item and checks the item content of the reminding item; a team information management module which receives the checking instruction of a project team and checks project team information of the construction project; and a prefabrication management module which searches first level component information of the construction project according to a first search instruction and searches second level component information of each construction component according to a second search instruction, wherein the first level component information includes the name of each construction component forming the construction project, the identification code of each construction component and/or the management progress of each construction component, and the second level component information includes the name, the identification code, the management progress, the floor, the system and the class of the construction components. The management efficiency of the construction personnel can be enhanced and paperless management of the construction project can be realized.