JP2001273390A - System and method for managing working time result, and its program recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate unnecessary managing work such as registering of the result of a working time and to allow a managing person to obtain the actual value of the precise working time of each person in charge and each work. SOLUTION: This working time result managing system has a database 12 for storing and retaining work managing information including a job content assigned to a person in charge, the scheduled working time and the actual working time of the job in a server 11, a working time measuring method defining processing part 13 for defining the measuring method of the working time concerning the job, the working time measuring parts 17 and 17a for clients 15 and 16 for measuring the actual working time concerning the job in accordance with the working time measuring method, and a working time storing processing part 14 storing the measured working time in the database 12 to reflect it to the work managing information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a work time management system and a management method for work performed sequentially using a computer, and more particularly, to eliminating manual work such as work of registering work time results, and The present invention also relates to a work time record management system and management method capable of automatically acquiring an accurate work time record value for each work, and a program recording medium for the system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in an environment in which a plurality of computers are connected via a network, the progress of work and the flow of work using a workflow management system, which is a type of groupware using a program such as e-mail, have been used. Automation is gaining attention. Regarding this, for example, there is a workflow management system and a display method thereof described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-11507. This is a function that displays the work of the work on a time axis for each person in charge, so that the work time and amount of work can be easily grasped for each person in charge and appropriate work can be assigned to each person in charge. To For this reason, the workflow server refers to the database in response to a request from the client to search for jobs that are being executed or scheduled to be executed, create a job list, and search and use job information for each user. The user list is created and displayed on the business analysis screen.

[0003]

In the above-described workflow management system, it is possible to grasp the progress of the work, but there is a problem that the actual work time for each person in charge cannot be grasped. In order to grasp the actual work time, it is necessary for the person in charge or the manager who receives the report from the person to input the work time information into the work management information and correct it. For this reason, it is necessary for the person in charge to record the work time for each task, and when one person is performing multiple tasks in parallel, the reliability of the numerical value is considerably large. Will be lower. In addition, since it is necessary to separately input the actual work time, the person in charge or the manager is troubled.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve these conventional problems, eliminate extra management work such as registration of actual work time for each person in charge, concentrate the person in charge on the original work, and It is an object of the present invention to provide a work time performance management system and a management method capable of reporting an accurate management index to a computer, and a recording medium recording the program.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a work time record management system according to the present invention comprises a work management information including a work content assigned to a person in charge, a planned work time of the work and an actual work time. And a work time measurement method defining means for measuring the work time related to the work, and a work time measurement means for measuring the actual work time related to the work according to the work time measurement method. And work time storage means for reflecting the measured work time in the work management information stored in the database. Also, in the work time performance management method of the present invention, the work time measurement unit of the client terminal stores the corresponding work assignment data and the work time measurement data related to the work from the work management information database using the person in charge as a key on the client. Download, monitor the operating status of the person in charge, temporarily save the time measured by referring to the measurement method, communicate with the work management server at any timing, and temporarily save the work The actual time is transferred to the work time storage processing section in the server, the value is added to the corresponding actual work time using the name of the person in charge and the work name as keys, and the cumulative value of the actual work time is updated. I have. Furthermore, a program recording medium of the present invention is characterized in that the processing steps of the above-mentioned work time record management method are converted into a program, and the converted program is stored in the recording medium.

The work time measuring method defining means defines, for the work for each person in charge stored in the database, a condition for determining that the work is in the execution state, gives a relation to the work, and makes the database again. Store in. The work time measuring means operates on the client, and reads the latest work time measurement method of the person in charge from the database and holds it. In this state, the work time measuring means monitors the operation state of various programs on the client, and measures the time corresponding to the measurement condition. The measured work time is transferred to the work management information server, and the work time record of the corresponding work is added by the work time storage unit. As a result, the actual work time is automatically measured and accumulated according to a predetermined measurement method, so that the person in charge can concentrate on his / her work,
Work such as registration of work time results can be eliminated.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a work time performance management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes a work management server incorporating a work management information database 12, a measurement method definition processing unit 13, and a work time storage processing unit 14, and 15 and 16 respectively connect to the work management server 11 via a network. Client, and incorporates working time measuring units 17 and 17a, respectively. The work management information database 12 in the work management server 11 stores a work management table as shown in FIG. 2 and a work time measurement method management table as shown in FIG. The measurement method definition processing unit 13
With respect to the work for each person in charge stored in the work management information database 12, a condition for determining that the work of the person in charge is in the execution state is defined, the relation is established, and the table in the database 12 is stored again. Store. The work time measuring units 17 and 17a on the client download the latest work time measurement method of the corresponding person in charge from the database 12 and hold it. The work measurement units 17 and 17a monitor the operating states of various programs on the client in that state, and measure the time corresponding to the measurement condition. The measured work time is transferred to the work time storage processing unit 14 of the work management information server 11, and stored in the database 12 by the work time storage processing unit 14. Database 12
Then, the work time is added to the cumulative value of the actual work time on the table.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a work management table stored in the work management information database of FIG. The work management table 20 shown in FIG. 2 shows what kind of work each worker (responsible 21) is currently in charge (work name 22) and how far the work has progressed (actual work time 26 with respect to scheduled work time 25). , When is the end schedule (schedule 2
4), etc. are stored. Measurement method I
D23 indicates a method of measuring the time during which the corresponding person is performing the work of the work name. Here, Taro Yamada creates a budget document from the work name (measurement method ID = 01).
0) and failure investigation (measurement method ID = 011) are both being performed in parallel. The former has been processed for 6 hours out of 24 hours of planned work time, and the latter has been processed for 10 out of 40 hours of planned work time. Time has been processed. The processed actual work time 26 is sequentially added to the work time transferred from each of the work time measuring units 17 and 17a of the clients 15 and 16, and is an accumulated value up to the present. .

FIG. 3 is a work time measurement method management table stored in the work management information database of FIG. Each work is associated with the work time measurement method management table 30 shown in FIG. 3 by the measurement method ID. The work time measurement method management table 30 stores a measurement method ID 31 for identifying the measurement method, a program name 32, a measurement condition 33, and a measurement value. The measurement method includes a program name 32 and a measurement condition 33,
The time during which the program has been activated under the measurement conditions, or the number obtained by multiplying the number of times the program satisfies the measurement conditions by a specified time is identified as the work time. For example,
Program name (Excel) of measurement method ID 010 (W
ord), the time when the program was activated (TIME) is defined as the work time, and the program name (Internet Explorer) having the measurement method ID 011 is used.
Etc., the number of times the program meets the measurement conditions (C
The value obtained by multiplying COUNT by the specified time is temporarily stored as a work time and transferred to the server, thereby accumulating the actual work time 26 in the work management table 20 shown in FIG. The process of defining these and storing them in the work management information database 12 is performed by the work time measurement method definition unit 13.

FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of the work time record management method showing one embodiment of the present invention. FIGS. 4 and 5 show work assignment data and work time measurement method management table at the time of download to the client. FIG. First, on the client side in FIG. 6A, the associated client is started (step 101), and when the person in charge logs on to the system (step 102), the work time measuring units 17, 17a on the client enter the name of the person in charge. Using the key as a key, the corresponding work assignment data 40 and the work time measurement method data 50 related to the work are downloaded from the work management information database 12 to the client (step 103). Thereafter, the work time measuring units 17 and 17a monitor the operation state of the client (step 104), and if the time measured by referring to the measuring method is input (step 105), the measured time is temporarily measured. (Step 106). The work time measurement units 17 and 17a periodically communicate with the work management server 11, and transfer the temporarily saved work time results to the work time storage processing unit 14 (step 107). If the work is completed, the process is also completed, but if not, the process returns to step 104 and repeats the same process (steps 104 to 108).

The work assignment data 40 downloaded to the client is, as shown in FIG. 4, a charge 41, a work name 42, and a measurement method ID 43, and a work time measurement method management table 50 of contents related to the client. Things are downloaded. The contents include a measurement method ID 51, a program name 52, and a measurement condition 53.
And the measured value 54. On the server side in FIG. 6B, the work time measurement method definition processing unit 13 defines in advance the condition of the execution state for the work for each person in charge in the database 12 and stores it in the database 12 again. It is.
When the log-on from the client is detected (step 201), it is determined whether or not the transfer of the work time value from the client has been received (step 203). Is stored in the database 12 and added to the actual work time 26 in the table (step 204). It is determined whether the work processing for each client has been completed (step 2).
05) When the processing is completed, the processing is completed. If the processing has not been completed, the process returns to step 203 and the same processing is repeatedly performed (steps 203 to 205).

For example, in FIG. 4, Taro Yamada, the person in charge, is currently in charge of "budget work" and "troubleshooting". The client machine of Taro Yamada, the person in charge,
“010” and “011” are assigned to the respective operations as the measurement method ID 43. Measurement method ID "01
There are two types of measurement methods identified by "0" as shown in FIG. The first is the "Excel" program, which is called "H
11 budget documents. Since the measured value is “TIME” under the condition that the “xls” file is open, “Exe”
l Budget under H11 program. The “time when the xls file is open” is measured as the actual work time of the “budget book creation” work. Similarly, "W
ord program to explain budget under H11. doc
Is open time is also measured as the actual work time of the "budget creation" work. In this way, the actual work time value data “Taro Yamada: budget creation: 6 hours” is transferred to the fixed time storage processing unit 14. Based on the received actual work time data, the work time storage processing unit 14 adds “6 hours” to the actual work time of the corresponding location, that is, the “budget creation” work of “Taro Yamada”, and calculates the actual work time value. Update.

Each step of the flowchart shown in FIG. 6 is converted into a program, and the converted program is
If the program is stored in a recording medium such as a D-ROM or a hard disk, the respective programs are installed on the client computer and the server computer from the recording medium or downloaded via a network, and the programs are executed. Thereby, the present invention can be easily realized.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The actual work time is automatically measured and accumulated according to a predetermined measurement method, so that the person in charge can concentrate on his / her work and eliminate unnecessary management work such as registering the actual work time. . In addition, by defining the method of measuring the work time, the manager can obtain an accurate work time actual value for each person in charge and for each work.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a work time performance management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a work management table stored in a work management information database of FIG. 1;

3 is a configuration diagram of a work time measurement method management table stored in a work management information database of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing table contents of work assignment data downloaded from a server to a client.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a work time measurement method management table downloaded from a server to a client.

FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of a client-side and server-side work time record management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

11: Work management server, 12: Work management information database, 13: Measurement method definition processing unit, 14: Work time storage processing unit, 15, 16 ... Client, 17, 17a: Work time measurement unit, 20: Work management table, 21 ... charge 2
2: Work name, 23: Measurement method ID, 24: Scheduled to be completed, 2
5 scheduled work time, 26 actual work time, 30 work time measurement method management table, 31 measurement method ID, 32 program name, 33 measurement condition, 34 measured value, 40 work assignment data, 41 Charge, 42 work name, 43 measurement method ID, 50 work time measurement method management table, 5
1 ... Measurement method ID, 52 ... Program name, 53 ... Measurement condition, 54 ... Measured value.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A database for accumulating work management information including work contents assigned to a person in charge, scheduled work time and actual work time of the work, and a work time measuring method for defining a work time measuring method for the work A definition processing unit;
A work management server having a work time storage processing unit for reflecting the measured work time in work management information stored in the database, and a work time measurement for measuring an actual work time related to the work according to the work time measurement method A work time record management system comprising: a work management server; and at least one client terminal connected to the work management server via a network. 2. The measurement method definition processing unit of the work management server defines, for a work for each person in charge stored in the work management information database, a condition for determining that the work is in the execution state, The work time measurement unit of the client terminal downloads the corresponding work assignment data and the work time measurement data relating to the work from the work management information database to the client terminal using the person in charge as a key, and The operation status of the server is monitored, the time measured by referring to the measurement method is temporarily stored, the communication with the work management server is performed at an arbitrary timing, and the temporarily stored actual work time is stored in the server. The work time is stored in the work management table. The work time storage processing section of the work management server It sent to work by adding the time actual value, work time performance management method and updates the cumulative value of the actual work time. 3. A program-readable recording medium, wherein the processing steps of the work time record management method according to claim 2 are converted into a program, and the converted program is stored in the recording medium.