JP2007034905A - Project management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an objective and high-accuracy project management system not depending on subjectivity of a manager by effectively using past stored data. <P>SOLUTION: This project management system used by a project manager of each project and a senior manager managing the plurality of projects, and inputted with a product in each the project or various kinds of data not appearing in the product in addition to the product has a function selecting data of an upper rank in a frequency used in the past about data of the project to be used when using the data of the past project. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a project management system that manages information on a project that produces software.

In recent years, the scale of software has increased due to the increase in functions of various products, and the development period has been required to be shortened in order to quickly bring products to the world. With this trend, the success or failure of a project is determined not only by developer skills and productivity, but also by project management methods.
For example, there is a need for a project that accurately grasps the status and status of the current project and responds quickly. In addition, it is necessary to centralize and improve the project management method rather than relying on individual skills.
Project management indicators include scheduling, cost, software quality, human skills, risk management, etc., and how well these are managed is important.
On the other hand, most of the commercially available project management tools are evaluated by a difference analysis for the schedule and a step-by-step evaluation by the project manager's subjectivity, and there are still some which are objectively evaluated from various aspects. not exist.
Project managers do not have an objective index of where problems are in the project, and they have been managing based on intuition and experience gained from past projects. Similarly, there was no way for senior managers to accurately and objectively understand the status of the project.
For example, “Project Management System” disclosed in Patent Document 1 discloses a technique in which a senior manager scores an evaluation result of a project under management as an evaluation point and evaluates the project itself.
Patent Document 2 “Project Management System, Program and Storage Medium” discloses a technique for managing progress by visually managing output documents.
JP 2003-196447 A JP 2003-141320 A

However, in Patent Document 1, a method in which a project manager evaluates a predetermined checklist is adopted, and at the same time as the evaluation by the project manager's subjectivity, the trend cannot be followed and desired. There was a problem that sometimes I could not get the information I wanted. Further, Patent Document 2 is limited to output documents, and lacks the viewpoint of visualizing the current state of the project with various management indexes in the project.
An object of the present invention is to provide an objective and highly accurate project management system that does not depend on the manager's subjectivity by effectively using accumulated past data.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is used by a project manager of each project and a senior manager managing a plurality of projects, and appears in the deliverables and other deliverables in each project. In a project management system where various types of data are input, the management indicators and project evaluation results created from the data input from each project are used, and which project data is used when using past project data It is characterized by having a function of selecting the top number used in the past.
The invention described in claim 2 is used by the project manager of each project and the senior manager who manages a plurality of projects, and inputs various products that do not appear in the deliverables and other deliverables in each project. In the project management system, management indicators and project evaluation results created from data input from each project are provided, and when using past project data, which project data is to be used It has the function to select a thing with high similarity.
The invention according to claim 3 is used by the project manager of each project and the senior manager who manages a plurality of projects, and inputs various products that are not shown in the deliverables and other deliverables in each project. In the project management system, management indices created from data input from each project and project evaluation results are provided. When using past project data, refer to that project for which project data to use. It has a function of selecting based on the success probability of the selected project.

According to the first aspect, more reliable past data can be referred to, and the accuracy of project management can be improved.
According to the second and third aspects, data that may be more effective can be referred to, and the accuracy of project management can be improved.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a project management form by a project management system according to the present invention.
The users of the project management system 1 are a project manager for each project and an advanced manager for managing a plurality of projects. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, when there are three projects, the project manager of project A, the project manager of project B, the project manager of project C, and the senior manager who monitors those projects are targeted.
The input to the project management system 1 is a product in each project and various data that does not appear in other products. For example, requirement specifications, design specifications, risk list, source code amount, output quality, number of test digests, number of software defects found, member skills, man-hours, cost, and the like.
In this example, the above-mentioned deliverables and other various data are taken from Project A, Project B, and Project C, respectively. These input data are input unconsciously if possible.
For example, if the risk list is updated, the data is entered into the system, and if there is a database that manages the number of software defects, data can be entered unconsciously by linking to it. Create a mechanism. This mechanism allows the system to keep track of project trends.

The project management system 1 generates a management index 11 and a project evaluation result 12 from these input data. For example, the risk management index, the source code completion rate, the test digestion rate, the number of software defects found, the member skills, and the like become the management index 11.
The project management system 1 transmits the management index 11 to the user in an easy-to-view format. This can take any form. The format may differ for each management index 11. In addition, the project management system 1 determines the failure probability and the risk level of the project based on such a management index 11 and informs the user.
The project manager can obtain the quantified management index 11 and the project evaluation result 12 of the project by the above operation, and can use it for grasping the current state of the own project and making a decision.
The project management system 1 accumulates data and knowledge of various projects. Therefore, administration across projects is also possible. In addition, the project management system 1 itself can evolve. In the present embodiment, a plurality of projects are targeted, but it is of course applicable to a single project.

<Example 1>
Assume that data of past projects A to C is accumulated in the project management system 1. Data on how many times the data has been used is attached to the accumulated data of each project.
For example, suppose that when implementing measures against a certain risk α, Project D adopts measures against risk α recorded in the data of Project A with reference to past data. In this case, since the data of the project A is used, the number of times the project A is used is incremented by one.
This is repeated, and it is assumed that the number of uses is as follows.
Project A: 5 times Project B: 2 times Project C: 11 times In this case, the data of Project C with the highest number of uses is presented. If the system can present the next and subsequent points, then it is presented in the order of Project A and Project B.
For a project that is used many times, it can be said that the project is trusted. Therefore, by making it possible for the user to preferentially select data for projects that are frequently used, high-value data Can be provided.

<Example 2>
Assume that data of past projects A to E is accumulated in the project management system 1. The accumulated data includes the scale of the project (for example, the amount of source code as an index), novelty (reproduction of new / existing modules), difficulty, required man-hours, development members (or project manager, support) (Including members, etc.) skills. An example of the accumulated data is shown in FIG.
Here, consider the project F in the situation as shown in FIG. This project is less difficult to replace the existing modules, but the development scale is relatively large, so it can be said that the project is highly similar to the project E (Fig. 2 is a chart showing the accumulated data of the existing project, Fig. 3 is a progress) It is a chart showing the data of Project F in the middle).
High similarity is likely to cause the same risks and challenges, so it is possible to provide more useful data for the project by presenting those data with priority. it can.

<Example 3>
Assume that data of past projects A to C is accumulated in the project management system. The data of each project that has been accumulated includes data on how many times the data has been used and data on whether or not the project on the side of the use has been successful.
For example, suppose that when implementing measures against a certain risk α, Project D adopts measures against risk α recorded in the data of Project A with reference to past data. Since the data of project A is used, the data of the number of times of use of project A is increased by one. If the project D on the use side succeeds, the “number of successful projects using data” of the project A is incremented by 1, and if the project D fails, this value is not increased.
By accumulating such data, the probability of success when using project data can be calculated.
If project A data is used from five projects D, F, J, K, and M, and only projects F and M succeed, the “success probability when using project A data” is 40%. Become.
Thus, by comparing the success probabilities when using the data of Projects A to C and presenting the one with the highest success probability, it is possible to provide the data that seems to be most useful to the user. .

  The present invention can be used for project management tools, project management mechanisms, project offices, project management support, project management education, and project consulting services.

It is explanatory drawing which shows the project management form by the project management system which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the accumulation | storage data of the existing project. It is a figure which shows the data of the project F in progress.

Explanation of symbols

1 Project management system 11 Management index 12 Project evaluation result

Claims (3)

A project management system that is used by project managers of each project and senior managers who manage multiple projects.
With management indicators and project evaluation results created from data input from each project,
What is claimed is: 1. A project management system characterized by having a function of selecting an upper number of times used in the past as to which project data is to be used when using data of a past project. A project management system that is used by project managers of each project and senior managers who manage multiple projects.
With management indicators and project evaluation results created from data input from each project,
A project management system characterized by having a function of selecting a project having a high degree of similarity in project status as to which project data is to be used when using past project data. A project management system that is used by project managers of each project and senior managers who manage multiple projects.
With management indicators and project evaluation results created from data input from each project,
What is claimed is: 1. A project management system having a function of selecting which project data is to be used based on the success probability of a project that refers to the project when using past project data.

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