JPH01161571A - Supporting system for project management - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically implement a changing plan which has been implemented relying upon one's experience and perception in the course of the project managing business by implementing a concrete plan about a plan change against a problem point occurred in the stage of project planning and execution. CONSTITUTION:A planned and actual data managing section 102 stores the inputted data regarding the plan and actual result of an object project in a project file 105. When a problem point occurs, a diagnostic section 103 finds the problem point and its cause in accordance with a problem point measuring item table 106. Furthermore, the section 103 finds a measuring candidate item from the tablet 106 from the above-mentioned problem point and cause and outputs the candidate item. The section 103 simultaneously outputs the propriety of concrete plan implementation in accordance with the table 106 against each measuring candidate item. When a concrete plan implementing request exists, the section 103 outputs a concrete plan implementing request to an overall control section 101. A concrete plan implementing section 104 implements a concrete plan with the assistance of a policy storing table 108, etc.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a support system for project management operations, and is particularly applicable to projects where problems occur frequently due to various factors, such as information processing system development projects. Relating to a suitable project management support system.

[Conventional technology] As discussed in the proceedings of the Information Processing Society of Japan's 33rd (late 1986) national conference, pages 721 to 722, conventional systems detect problems from the project status. The method was to support management operations by investigating the cause of the problem and presenting countermeasures. In addition, when presenting countermeasure proposals, the items of abstract countermeasure proposals that are broadly divided into ■Strengthening measures and ■Review measures are weighted heavily toward those that are fatal to the situation, and the priority of measures to be taken is indicated. It was a method.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] When taking measures to change the project plan, it is necessary to create a specific plan, that is, a specific change plan. The above-mentioned conventional technology does not give consideration to the creation of specific countermeasures for the detected problems, and has the following problems. Creating specific measures for a change plan is basically a combinatorial problem, and a huge number of alternatives can be considered. Among the alternatives, there was a problem in that a huge amount of searching was required to find the optimal solution. Furthermore, not all alternatives may be implemented due to the actual circumstances of the project. Therefore, there was a problem in that the project manager had to create a specific plan based on experience and intuition.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a project management support system that solves the above-mentioned problems and creates specific measures in accordance with the actual situation of the project for countermeasures related to plan changes for problems detected during the planning and implementation stages of the project. It's about doing.

[Means for solving problems] The above purpose is for project management work.

A diagnostic tool that detects project problems in the planning and implementation stages and presents candidate countermeasures, and a diagnostic method that selects an appropriate scheduling adjustment function from among multiple scheduling adjustment functions based on the input policy. This is achieved by providing a concrete plan creation means that executes the schedule adjustment function selected based on the specific plan creation procedure know-how data and creates a concrete plan for countermeasures related to plan changes for the above-mentioned problems.

[Operation] The diagnostic means detects problems in a project to be diagnosed from data related to problems and causes that occur during the planning and implementation stages based on past cases and project manager know-how, and multiple candidate countermeasures. Then, the cause is investigated, and candidate countermeasure items for solving the problem are determined based on the problem and the cause. The specific plan creation means selects a schedule adjustment function to be executed for a candidate countermeasure item related to a plan change based on the policy for creating a specific plan and know-how data on the procedure for creating a specific plan for the given countermeasure candidate item, and creates a plan. Adjust values and create specific measures.

Through the above-described processing, it is possible to realize a project management support system that creates specific measures in accordance with the actual situation of the project for countermeasures related to plan changes for problems detected during the planning and implementation stages of the project.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a project management support system showing one embodiment of the present invention. In addition, each block,
The details of the table will be explained in the drawings as necessary.

In FIG. 1, the overall control unit 101 sequentially starts the plan/actual data management unit 1029 and the diagnosis unit 103.
The specific plan creation unit 104 is activated in response to the specific plan creation request in step 03.

The plan/performance management unit 102 stores the input data regarding the work plan and performance of the target project in the project file 105.

The project file 105 includes data on the start date and delivery date of the project, personnel that can be secured within the project period (on-hand personnel), as well as man-hour and period worker performance data for each subsystem, which is the work unit of the project, as shown in Figure 2. It consists of a table 201 and a workload child performance data table 202.

Based on the problem countermeasure item table 106 shown in FIG. 3, the diagnosis unit 103 first inquires whether the content of the problem has occurred. Inquiry is made as to whether or not the problem has occurred due to the occurrence of the content of the cause corresponding to the point, and the problem that has occurred and its cause are determined. Furthermore, based on the above problems and their causes, candidate countermeasure items for the problems are determined from the problem countermeasure candidate table 106 and these are output. Note that for each of the countermeasure candidate items described above, based on the problem countermeasure item table 106, whether or not a specific countermeasure can be created is simultaneously output. At this time, the specific plan creation unit inquires whether or not to create a specific plan for the countermeasure candidate item, and if there is a request to create a specific plan, the general control unit 101
Outputs a request to create a specific plan.

Next, the operation of the specific plan creation section 104 will be explained based on the flowchart shown in FIG.

The specific plan creation unit 104 copies the contents of the target project's man-hour/time period actual data table 201 and created load element actual data table 202 from the project file 105 to the specific plan creation file 110 (step 401), and then.

Among the countermeasure candidate items for which a specific plan can be created for the problem determined by the diagnosis unit 103, a question is asked as to which countermeasure candidate item should be selected as a policy for creating a specific plan, and the selected countermeasure candidate item is set in the policy storage table 108 ( Step 402). The creation policies are extracted one by one from the specific plan creation procedure storage table 109 and compared with the contents of the policy storage table 108 (step 403). If they match, i is set to 1 (step 404). In the specific plan creation procedure table 109,
The schedule adjustment function having the i-th priority (see FIG. 1) corresponding to the creation policy matched in step 403 is executed (step 405). In the execution of the schedule adjustment function in step 405, the schedule adjustment function built into the system, for example, the basic module (secondary (See Figure 1)
The results are stored in the specific plan creation file 109. The schedule that was executed next! ! [Determine whether the workload of the execution result of Ja function is within the number of people on hand (step 406). At this time, if there are fewer people on hand, the process ends. If the number of people on hand is exceeded, i is incremented by 1 (step 407). Next, in the specific plan creation procedure storage table 109, the execution schedule with the i-th priority corresponding to the creation policy that matched in step 403 is determined. It is determined whether or not it is an adjustment function (step 408), and if so, the process of step 405 is repeated; if not, the process ends.

A concrete plan creation table 109 that defines the procedure for creating a concrete plan based on a certain policy includes a condition part that describes the policy for creating a concrete plan as shown in FIG. 6, and a schedule adjustment that should be executed when one condition part is satisfied. A rule is defined through the rule input/output section 115, and consists of a conclusion section that describes a function. As a rule description format, we have prepared a basic sentence pattern of IF (Policy is <C>) THEN ((S□>Execute function; Priority <82>).The rule input/output part is this C, S1 ~Based on the value of S2, the contents of the rule are converted into the form of the concrete measure creation procedure storage table 109 and stored,
The contents of the concrete measure creation procedure storage table 109 are converted into a rule format and output.

In addition, "T)(EN(kuSt>) executes the function priority
>)" can be described in multiple numbers. For example, the rule (1) in FIG. 6 corresponds to the specific plan creation procedure of Nα1 in FIG. 5.

According to this embodiment, it is possible to easily create specific countermeasures for plan changes in response to problems in the planning and implementation stages of a project in accordance with the user's policy in a short time. This has the effect of automating plan change operations that traditionally relied on the experience and intuition of project managers. It also has the effect of quickly creating specific measures that suit the actual circumstances of the project, without creating a huge number of alternative plans. Furthermore, by recording and inputting the project manager's experiential knowledge regarding the steps for creating specific measures in rules,
It also has the advantage of being able to flexibly respond to additions and changes to knowledge and being easy to maintain. Furthermore, the scheduling adjustment function is divided into basic modules, built into the system, and activated according to rules as necessary, so that maintenance and management of the program is easy.

As a modified example, the contents of the problem countermeasure item table shown in FIG. 3 may be written in rules. For example, if one problem is a delay in the design process, and if the cause is a delay in the design process (IF section), then consider adding more personnel, lowering specifications, or postponing the delivery date as possible countermeasures (THEN section). This has the effect of making it easy to add or change the contents of problem countermeasure items.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, it is possible to create specific plans for changing plans in response to problems that arise during the planning and implementation stages in project management work, so that it is possible to create concrete measures for changing plans in response to problems that arise during the planning and implementation stages. The advantage of being able to automatically create the change plan you relied on is that the change plan is created based on the user's policy, so there is no need to create unnecessary alternatives. This has the effect of allowing measures to be quickly created.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a part of the contents of the project file 105 shown in FIG.
3 is a diagram showing the data structure of the problem versus item table 106 in FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the data structure of the problem pair item table 106 in FIG.
5 is a flowchart showing the operation procedure of FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the data structure of the concrete measure creation procedure storage table in FIG.
The figure is a diagram showing an example of a description in which a specific measure creation procedure is expressed as a rule. 7th town, 4th, 5′″

Claims (1)

[Claims] In project management work, we use a diagnostic method that detects problems in a project during the planning and implementation stages and presents countermeasures for the problems, and an appropriate scheduling adjustment function from among multiple scheduling adjustment functions based on the input policy. A method for creating a concrete plan for creating a change plan to address the above-mentioned problems by executing the selected scheduling adjustment function based on the know-how data on how to create a concrete plan for selecting a suitable scheduling adjustment function. A project management support system featuring: