JP2002007655A - System and method for supporting project and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a support system for smoothly carrying out a project such as creative production. SOLUTION: Contents such as projects in the past, fields, kinds, the staff and evaluations are stored in a project DB 116 and staff information related to the specialties or abilities of the staff is stored in a staff DB 117. When a novel project is proposed, contents thereof are inputted, similar projects are extracted out of projects registered in the project DB 116 and further, only the project of high evaluation is extracted. A staff template is found from the extracted project, and the staff satisfying the staff template is extracted from the contents of the staff DB 117 and displayed as staff candidates of that project.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system and a method for assisting in smoothly executing a project.

[0002]

[Prior Art] In order to perform creative production activities, it is necessary to allocate production staff for efficient and effective production activities according to the production conditions (time, funding, production environment, etc.) Becomes

[0003]

Heretofore, production staff has been distributed based on the experience and intuition of the person in charge, and has the problem of being personal and lacking in objectivity. Similarly,
There is a problem that a project is proposed only based on the experience and intuition of the person in charge.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above situation, and has as its object to provide a system and a method for supporting smooth execution of a project when performing a project such as creative production. . Further, another object of the present invention is to make it possible to objectively perform staff allocation, staff evaluation, and the like for making any project successful. Further, another object of the present invention is to provide a system and a method capable of proposing a new project from an existing project.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a project support system according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises: a project information storage unit for storing past projects and their contents; Staff information storage means for storing, input means for inputting the contents of the new project, and, for the new project having the contents inputted by the input means, necessary for executing the new project from the contents of the project information storage means And a means for presenting a combination of staff that satisfies the personnel structure determined by the personnel structure determining means, by searching the staff information storage means, and Comprising.

According to this configuration, an appropriate combination of staffs is proposed based on the results of past projects in accordance with the conditions of a new project. Therefore, it is possible to assign an objective staff without depending on experience or intuition.

Means for additionally recording the new project and its constituent staff in the project information storage means, and means for additionally recording the evaluation of the project in the project information storage means at the end of the project are arranged. You may. With this configuration, the storage contents of the project information storage means increase in a self-proliferating manner, and the reliability of the system increases as the project is completed.

[0008] At the end of the project, means for additionally registering the evaluation of the constituent staff in the staff information storage means may be provided.

Further, a project support system according to a second aspect of the present invention comprises: a project information storage means for storing the contents of a project, information on staff in charge of the project, and evaluation of the project; And designating means for designating information on the staff in charge of the project, and the result of the project when the staff designated by the designating means is in charge of the designated project. And simulation means for performing simulation using

According to this configuration, the success or failure of a project can be objectively determined when a staff member in an arbitrary project participates. In addition, by performing a similar simulation for multiple projects,
You can also see the staff's evaluation of the selected projects.

[0011] The project information storage means stores, for example, the fields, types, scales, and periods of past projects, information on staff skills, experiences, demography, and evaluations by clients and staff themselves in association with each other. In this case, the simulating means matches the result of the project when the staff specified by the specifying means is in charge of the specified project with the actual example of the past project stored in the project information storage means. It can be simulated by taking.

Further, a project support system according to a third aspect of the present invention includes: a project information storage means for storing a project and a plurality of factors constituting the project in association with each other; Project generating means for generating and presenting a new project composed of related factors by comparing factors of a plurality of stored projects.

According to this configuration, it is possible to propose a new project without relying on human subjectivity.

[0014] The project generation means, for example, compares one or a plurality of project factors stored in the project information storage means with a corresponding one of other projects.
Alternatively, a new project is generated by performing a process of replacing with a plurality of factors or a process of connecting one or a plurality of factors of another project to a factor of one or a plurality of projects.

The project generating means includes means for inputting information for specifying a plurality of factors, and means for searching the project information storage means for a project having a factor or a group of factors for the input information. You may.

Further, in a project support method according to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a project implemented in the past, its contents, information on staff in charge, and evaluation of the project are stored in association with each other in advance, and a new project is stored. When the contents of the project are presented, the contents of the new project are compared with the stored past projects, and based on the contents of the successful past project, the staff required to execute the new project Is determined, and based on staff information registered in advance, a combination of staff members satisfying the determined staff configuration requirement is obtained and presented.

Further, in the project support method according to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the contents of the past project, information on the staff in charge of the project, and the evaluation of the project are registered in advance, and the contents of the project are registered. When the staff in charge of the project is designated, the combination of the designated project contents and the staff is compared with the registered past project contents and the staff combination, and they are matched or similar. Determining the evaluation of the project to be performed, thereby simulating the result of the project when the designated staff takes charge of the designated project.

Further, in a project support method according to a sixth aspect of the present invention, a project and a plurality of factors constituting the project are registered in association with each other, and factor designating information for specifying the factor is inputted, and A project having a factor corresponding to the factor designation information is extracted, and a factor of one or more extracted projects is compared with a factor of another project to generate a new project including related factors. , Characterized in that.

The above-mentioned project support system can be realized by using a normal computer without using a dedicated device. That is, a program for causing a computer to execute each of the above-described processes is stored in a recording medium (CD-ROM,
By recording and distributing it on a floppy (registered trademark) disk, MO, ROM, or the like), installing it on a computer, and operating it on an OS (operating system), the computer can function as the above processing system.

[0020]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a project support system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(First Embodiment) This project support system creates a video, an advertisement, a multimedia, a game, and the like under a commission from an external company.
This system is installed in a company that performs creative production activities and, when the contents of an arbitrary project are input, extracts and proposes appropriate human resources to make the project successful. This project support system 11
As shown in FIG. 1, a communication control unit 111, a processing control unit 112, a storage unit 113, an input processing unit 114, a display processing unit 115, a project DB (database)
116, staff DB 117, and client DB 1
18 is provided.

The communication control unit 111 communicates with an external device under the control of the processing control unit 112.

The processing control section 112 stores the project information, staff information, and client information input from the input processing section 114 into the project DB 116 and the staff DB 1.
17 respectively. The processing control unit 112
When a new project is input, the past project corresponding to the new project is
B116, the staff composition of the extracted project is determined, the staff corresponding to the staff composition is extracted from the staff DB 117, and the obtained combination of staff is proposed on the display processing unit 115.

The storage unit 113 is composed of a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk recording device, and the like, and performs processing for extracting various information and programs, for example, a past project similar to a new project, and matching with a staff template of the extracted project. And a program for executing a process of extracting staff to be executed.

The input processing unit 114 includes a keyboard, a pointing device, and the like, and inputs instructions and data.

The display processing unit 115 includes a display device,
It is composed of a video memory and the like, displays an image according to the image information supplied from the processing control unit 112, and presents (outputs) information and the like.

The project DB 116 stores, for each project executed in the past, as shown in FIG.
(1) the field of the project (movie, WEB creation, game, etc.), (2) the type of project (type of work undertaken in each field such as planning, editing, shooting, etc.), (3) the contracted amount of the project, (4) Project duration, (5) Client name, (6) Client's industry (manufacturing, food, computer, etc.), (7) Quality of production (high, medium, low), (8) Other projects It stores information such as evaluation items, (9) composition and capabilities of participating staff members (posts, specialties, experiences, demographics, qualifications, etc.), (10) staff satisfaction, (11) client evaluations, and the like.

The staff DB 117 stores staff information (staff code, name, gender, date of birth, age), address, and contact information (telephone number, mobile phone number, facsimile number, e-mail address) of staff registered in advance. , Emergency contact), occupation (business department, field, occupation, specialty, staff level), training / education record, work status (on standby, contacting, interviewing, waiting for start, operating, operating by other companies) Stores information.

On the other hand, the client DB 118 stores information relating to the requesting client.

Next, the operation of the above system will be described. First, a person who intends to receive an introduction of a job by this project support system fills in a registration form as illustrated in FIG. 3 and registers it in advance with an operating entity of this system.

The operator inputs items registered in this form from the input processing unit 114. The processing control unit 112 stores the input staff information in the staff DB 11
Register to 7. These pieces of registration information serve as information for identifying the experience, skill, and demography of each registrant.

Each registrant appropriately notifies the center of the status of his / her work. For example, if there is a change in the status of your job (waiting, contacting, interviewing, waiting for a start, running, running at another company, etc.), manage the status, the person in charge, and the period. Notify the subject. The operation staff registers this in the staff DB 117.

Next, the processing from receiving a request for a new project to assigning staff will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, when a request for a new project is received, an operator in charge of the system analyzes the project, and (1) the field of the project (movie, WEB creation, game creation, etc.), (2) the type of project ( Types of work undertaken in various fields, such as planning, editing, photography, etc.), (3) project contracted amount,
(4) Project period, (5) Client name,
(6) Client's business type (manufacturing, food industry, computer related, etc.), (7) Product quality (high, normal, low), (8) other project evaluation items, etc. Input is made from step 114 (step S11).

The processing control section 112 performs a matching process (matching) between the contents of the input project and the contents of the project stored in the project DB 116, and extracts a project having a matching degree equal to or higher than the reference level ( Step S12).

Next, the processing control unit 112 refers to the extracted project evaluation items, staff satisfaction levels, and client satisfaction levels, and extracts those whose evaluation is equal to or higher than the reference level (step S13).

By the extraction processing in steps S12 and S13, the degree of coincidence with the newly requested project is high,
And the successful project is the project DB 116
Extracted from If there are a plurality of projects that match the conditions, one project with the highest overall evaluation of the degree of coincidence and the degree of success is selected.

Next, the processing control unit 112 analyzes the personnel composition of the extracted project participants (project constituents) and extracts a "template of a combination of staff" (step S14). “Staff combination template” is meta information that classifies staff into a certain framework based on functions, experience, demography, compatibility with other staff, and the like.

Specifically, this template is not limited to contents such as, for example, that the project was simply executed by one chief (C), two sub-chiefs (SC), and six staff members. Has the highest rank as a creator and has experience as a sub-chief, the sub-chief has the highest rank as a creator, each staff has a level above average as a creator, and This information indicates that one person in charge of management is included.

Based on the extracted template, the processing control unit 112 extracts a combination of human resources that matches the template from the staff DB 117 (step S15).

For example, the processing control unit 112 extracts a person having the highest rank as a creator and having experience as a sub-chief according to the template. Then, after confirming the work status and confirming that no other work is scheduled during the project execution period, the candidate is set as a chief candidate. Similarly, a person who has the highest rank as a creator and has no other work scheduled during the execution of the project is set as a sub-chief candidate. Furthermore, five staff members who have a level higher than the average as a creator and can be in charge of the project for at least the initial fixed period are extracted as staff candidates. In addition, those who have both production and management capabilities are considered staff candidates.

The processing control unit 112 displays the eight persons thus extracted together with the information registered in the staff DB 117 on the display processing unit 115 (step S1).
6).

The operator checks the displayed contents, further examines whether the eight extracted staff members are appropriate for the execution of this project, and edits the staff members if necessary.

When the staff in charge determines the staff candidates, it contacts each person and proceeds to the processing such as the contract procedure.

When the project is started by the staff determined in this way, the project is advanced while managing the project by various methods.

When the project is completed, the project is evaluated. First, at the time of contracting a project, items such as “participating staff”, “staff satisfaction”, and “client evaluation” in the contents registered in the project DB 116 are registered. This information will be used to select staff during the next project contract.

When the project is completed, the project is evaluated. First, the operator in charge of the project, at the time of contracting the project,
Register items such as "participating staff", "staff satisfaction", and "client evaluation". This information will be referred to in the next project contract to extract staff.

The operation person in charge is the staff DB 117
In the "Participant of the project" column, register the experience of participating in the project and its role. In addition, regarding personal relationships with other participants in the same project,
If the information exists, register it. These information will be referred to next time when extracting staff.

As described above, the system according to the present embodiment proposes an optimal combination of staff members for executing a new project based on past projects and the capabilities of each staff member. Therefore, there is no need to perform staffing based on experience or intuition, and appropriate staffing can be performed in a short time.

In the above embodiment, an existing project whose contents match the new project is extracted, but a project that exactly matches may not be detected. In such a case, for example, a relatively matching project may be selected by the following method, and the number of staff members may be determined by estimation from the project.

First, a project is extracted from the project DB 116 based on the field and type of the project. From the extracted projects, ones that are relatively close to the new project or similar ones are extracted based on the amount of the project, the period, the quality of the product, and the like. From the comparison of the size and period of the new project and the extracted project, the total number of staff is calculated. The number of chiefs and the number of sub-chiefs are determined according to a predetermined standard according to the size and duration of the project, and the rest will be general staff.

For example, for a project with a contract amount of less than 50 million yen, one chief and one sub-chief are used, and the others are used as ordinary staff. For a project with a contract amount of 50 million yen or more, one chief person , Sub Chief 2
As a person, you can set others to be regular staff.

The above system is used during the project
When a staff member is vacant, a staff member having almost the same ability and experience as the staff member is assigned to the staff DB 11.
7, it is also applicable to a case where the vacancy is filled.

(Second Embodiment) In the first embodiment, human resources suitable for a new project are extracted and
The proposed embodiment has been described. The present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and may be used, for example, by a certain staff to determine whether or not the staff is suitable for an arbitrary project.

The operation of the system in this case will be described with reference to FIG. First, a staff to be verified is extracted (step S21). Next, an arbitrary project registered in the project DB 116 is selected (step S
22).

Next, the staff is assigned to the staff template of the project, and a standard staff configuration (or a staff that has already been assigned) is assigned as the other staff (step S2).
3).

Next, a project having the same staff composition and the same contents is stored in the project DB 116.
, And whether the project was successful, and its cost, etc. are determined (step S24). The same processing is performed for staff templates of other projects. By executing such a process, the suitability of the staff for the selected project group can be checked. By performing the same simulation for a plurality of staff, each staff can be rated for the selected project group.

When filling in the vacancies generated in the staff of a certain project, the staff extracted by the system of the first embodiment is used to determine whether or not the staff is really suitable for the project. It is also possible.

(Third Embodiment) In the first and second embodiments, the present invention has been described with a focus on the relationship between the project and the staff. However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. Not limited. For example, project DB
The present invention is also applicable to a case where a new project is created from a plurality of projects stored in 116. Hereinafter, a third embodiment relating to a system for creating a new project based on a plurality of projects will be described.

In this embodiment, each project is decomposed into a plurality of factors constituting the project, and each project is associated with the factor and stored in the project DB 116.

For example, consider a project for creating an English manual for a new product A. This project is created, for example, in the following sequence: a meeting with a technician in Japanese → preparation of a Japanese manuscript → proofreading of a Japanese manuscript → translation of a Japanese manuscript into English → proofreading of an English manual. Therefore, this project consists of (a) meetings in Japanese, (b) preparation of Japanese manuscripts, (c) proofreading of Japanese manuscripts, (d) translation of Japanese manuscripts into English, and (e) proofreading of English manuals. It can be divided into factors. Therefore, the project DB 116 contains the factor (a)
Symbols for identifying (e) are also registered.

On the other hand, it is assumed that a project for directly creating an English manual after a technical meeting in Japanese is registered in the project DB 116. in this case,
Factors of the project are registered, such as (f) technical meeting in Japanese and (g) preparation of an English manual.

In this case, the processing control unit 112 compares the factors of the two projects in accordance with an instruction from the input processing unit 114, thereby obtaining the factors (a), (b), (c) of the project for which the manual is created. ), (D)
It is determined that (f) and (g) can be replaced.

The processing control unit 112 performs (f) a technical meeting in Japanese, (g) creation of an English manual, and (e)
We propose a new project with the factor of proofreading English manuals. In that case, factors (f) and (g)
Is registered in the staff DB 117, and it is also possible to propose a staff for realizing a new project proposed by the system itself.

Although a specific example has been described for easy understanding, a method of decomposing a project into a plurality of factors, a method of replacing a factor of a certain project with a factor of another project, and the like are not described. Optional.

For example, when one or more factors at the end point of one project and one or more factors at the start point of another project are substantially the same, a new project is generated by linking the two projects. You may.

Also, as schematically shown in FIG. 6, a new project can be constructed by replacing one or more factors constituting one project with one or more factors of another project. It is possible.

Further, a factor registered in the project DB 116 may be associated with a keyword or the like so that the factor can be searched. In this case, the input processing unit 114
When information such as a keyword is input from, the processing control unit 112 detects a project having a factor corresponding to the input information.

Next, the processing control unit 112 compares the factor of the retrieved project with the factor of another project registered in the project DB 116, and determines whether or not there is any one that can be replaced or linked. , If present, perform substitution or concatenation. With such a configuration,
Projects related to the field of interest can be created.

The project support system 11 of this embodiment can be realized by using a normal computer without using a dedicated device. That is, a program for causing a computer to execute each of the above-described processes is stored in a recording medium (CD-ROM, floppy disk, MO, ROM, or the like).
And the like, and distribute it, install it in a computer, and operate it on an OS (operating system), whereby the computer can function as a system.

[0070]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a system and a method for supporting the proper execution of a project.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a project support system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure of a project DB shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a registration form for staff registration.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a staff proposal process.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining a simulation process of project execution.

FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically illustrating a process of replacing a factor of one project with a factor of another project.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Project Support System 111 Communication Processing Unit 112 Processing Control Unit 113 Storage Unit 114 Input Processing Unit 115 Display Processing Unit 116 Project DB 117 Staff DB 118 Client DB

Claims (14)

[Claims] 1. A project information storage means for storing past projects and their contents; a staff information storage means for storing staff information on staff; an input means for inputting the contents of a new project; For a new project with the contents described above,
A staff structure determining unit for determining the staff structure of the staff required to execute the new project; and a staff that searches the staff information storage unit and satisfies the staff structure determined by the staff structure determining unit. Means for presenting a combination of: a project support system. 2. A means for additionally recording the new project and its constituent staff in the project information storage means, and a means for additionally recording the evaluation of the project in the project information storage means at the end of the project. The project support system according to claim 1, comprising: 3. The project support system according to claim 1, further comprising means for additionally registering the evaluation of the constituent staff in the staff information storage means at the end of the project. 4. A project information storage means for storing contents of a project, information on staff in charge of the project, and evaluation of the project, and designation for designating contents of the project and information of staff in charge of the project. Means, and a simulating means for simulating the result of the project when the staff specified by the specifying means is in charge of the specified project, using data stored in the project information storage means. A project support system characterized by the following. 5. The project information storage means stores information on past project fields, types, scales, periods, staff skills, experiences, demography, and evaluations by clients and staff in association with each other. The simulating means matches the result of the project when the staff designated by the designating means is in charge of the designated project with an actual example of a past project stored in the project information storage means. The project support system according to claim 4, further comprising: means for simulating by: 6. A project information storage means for storing a project and a plurality of factors constituting the project in association with each other, and comparing the factors of the plurality of projects stored in the project information storage means with each other. And a project generation means for generating and presenting a new project composed of related factors. 7. A process for replacing one or more factors of one or more projects stored in the project information storage with one or more factors corresponding to another project, or one or more of the following: 7. The project support system according to claim 6, further comprising means for generating a new project by performing a process of linking one or a plurality of factors of another project to a factor of another project. 8. The project generating means includes means for inputting information for specifying a plurality of factors, means for searching a project having a factor or a group of factors for the input information from the project information storage means, The project support system according to claim 6, further comprising: 9. A project executed in the past, its contents, information on staff in charge, and evaluation of the project are stored in association with each other in advance, and when contents of the new project are presented, the contents of the new project are stored. Compare the contents with the past projects that are memorized, and from the contents of successful past projects,
Determine the staffing requirements of the staff required to execute the new project, and find and present a combination of staff that satisfies the determined staffing requirements based on pre-registered staff information. A project support method characterized by: 10. The contents of a past project, information on the staff in charge of the project, and the evaluation of the project are registered in advance, and when the contents of the project and the staff in charge of the project are designated, , By comparing the combination of the designated project contents and its staff with the registered past project contents and staff combination, and determining the evaluation of a matching or similar project to determine the designated staff Simulating the result of a project when a person is in charge of a specified project. 11. A project and a plurality of factors constituting the project are registered in association with each other, factor designation information for specifying the factor is input, and a project having a factor corresponding to the factor designation information is extracted. A project support method, comprising: generating a new project composed of related factors by comparing extracted factors of one or more projects with factors of another project. 12. A computer, comprising: project information storage means for storing past projects and their contents; staff information storage means for storing staff information on staff; input means for inputting the contents of a new project; For a new project with the contents described above,
A staff composition determining means for determining the staff composition of the staff required to execute the new project; searching the staff information storage means to determine a staff composition that satisfies the staff composition determined by the staff composition discriminating means. Means for presenting the combination, a computer-readable recording medium on which a program for causing the combination to function is recorded. 13. A computer for designating the contents of a project, information on staff in charge of the project, and project information storage means for storing evaluations of the project, the contents of the project and information on staff in charge of the project. Means for simulating, using the data stored in the project information storage means, the result of the project when the staff specified by the specification means is in charge of the specified project. A computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded. 14. A computer, comprising: a project information storage means for storing a project and a plurality of factors constituting the project in association with each other; comparing factors of the plurality of projects stored in the project information storage means. Means for generating and presenting a new project composed of related factors, whereby a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing the program to function as