JP3337711B2 - Project progress management system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a project progress management support system for managing and supporting the progress of a project such as software development.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a progress management support device used for executing a project such as software development is based on a development document amount, a created code line number, or a progress degree indicated by "%" for each work. In many cases, the progress data is input to the administrator's computer to support the display.

[0003] These progress management support devices aim at grasping the progress of the work by the amount of the product or the amount of progress based on a scale. Receive briefings from weekly / monthly reports or oral reports.

However, when developing a project in a distributed manner, the above-mentioned progress management support device is placed in a host computer, and data is input from a remote location via a network, so that the occurrence of a problem in the progress can be visually recognized. However, there is no support for a means to get a contextual description of the problem that has occurred.

[0005] Management measures such as situation explanations, improvement measures, and countermeasures are important know-how in project management. However, weekly / monthly reports or oral reports require time-consuming organization of information and reuse of know-how is required. It is difficult to do.

Therefore, in managing the progress of a project, there has been a demand for a means for taking measures against a problem that has occurred and for managing the collected management behavior information, but there is no such means.

[0007]

As described above, conventionally, on a network in which a plurality of computer systems are connected via an arbitrary communication medium, a manager mutually progresses with a plurality of managed persons by e-mail. In a progress management support device that manages a situation, when a project is distributed and worked, even if it is possible to visually obtain the occurrence of a problem in the progress, there is no way to obtain a description of the situation of the problem that has occurred.

Further, even if information obtained by weekly / monthly reports or oral reports is obtained, there is a problem in that it takes time and effort to organize the information, and it is difficult to use such information effectively.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a project progress management support system capable of eliminating such problems and automatically managing the progress when executing a project in a distributed environment. The purpose is to:

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a project progress management system for managing and supporting the progress of a project such as software development. A progress report request creation processing means for creating a progress report request, and the progress report request created by the progress report request creation processing means from the manager of the project to each development staff of the project corresponding to the project. Receiving a progress report returned from each developer in response to the transmission of the progress report request by the progress report request transmission means transmitted at the predetermined period. Progress report reception processing means, transmission status of the progress report request by the progress report request transmission processing means, and the progress report Characterized by comprising a report collection status display processing means for the recovery status of the progress reports to list on the basis of the reception status of the progress report by the reception processing means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, a first database for storing transmission cycle information of the progress report request for each operation and form designation information of the progress report request is further provided. The progress report request creation processing means creates a progress report request for each work of the project based on the form designation information stored in the first database, and the progress report request transmission processing means Transmitting a progress report request created by the progress report request creation processing means based on transmission cycle information stored in the first database to each person in charge of development of the project by e-mail. .

[0012] The invention of claim 3 relates to the invention of claim 1, which relates to the progress report request transmitted by the progress report request transmission processing means and the progress report request received by the progress report reception processing means. The system further includes a second database storing operation status information, wherein the report collection status display processing means displays a list of the collection status of the progress report based on the operation status information stored in the second database. It is characterized by the following.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the third aspect of the invention, the progress report request creation processing means is based on operation status information stored in the second database. The progress report request is created by adding a continuation management item to the progress report request received in step (1).

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a progress management support apparatus to which the project progress management support system of the present invention is applied.

In FIG. 1, the progress management support device includes a system processing unit 1, a database unit 2, and an input / output unit 3. The progress management support device having this configuration is connected to other computer systems 5-1 to 5-n distributed via a communication medium 4. Then, the progress management support device and the other computer systems 5-1 to 5-n can communicate by e-mail. Here, the progress management support device is used by the project manager,
Other computer systems are used by the administrator, and are used, for example, by distributed developers of the project.

The database unit 2 stores a holiday information database 21 storing transmission holiday information, and information such as a cycle for transmitting a progress report request for each operation and a form designation of the progress report request. An operation rule database (first database) 22, a report form database 23, a report holder 24 for storing reports,
An operation status information database (second database) 25 storing operation status information related to the report is provided.

Further, the system processing unit 1 includes an activation processing unit 11 for performing an initial activation process based on the holiday information database 21 and the operation rule database 22, and a progress report request creation processing unit for creating a progress report request for each operation. 12,
A report transmission / reception processing unit 13 that sends a progress report request to the project staff by e-mail and receives the progress report from the project staff, classifies and arranges the received progress reports and sends them to the report holder 24. The report storage processing unit 14 to be stored, the transmission status of the progress report based on the operation status information database 25 and the reception status of the transmitted progress report are grasped, and the input / output unit 3 of the input / output unit 3 is monitored so that the completion of the report routine can be monitored. It is composed of a report collection status display processing unit 15 that performs processing to be displayed on the display unit.

Next, the operation of the progress management support device will be described.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a progress report transmission process. In FIG. 2, first, a variable i is set to “1” as an initial value (step 201). Then, the activation processing unit 11 refers to the transmission holiday information stored in the holiday information database 21 and determines whether today's date is a holiday (step 202).

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the structure of the information stored in the database unit 2, and FIG.
Indicates the configuration of information stored in the holiday information database 21. That is, the date and day of the holiday are all stored as holiday information.

If the activation day is a holiday in step 202, the transmission process ends. On the other hand, if the activation day is not a holiday, the operation rule database 2
2 extracts the i-th data of the operation rule stored therein (step 203).

FIG. 3B is a diagram showing the structure of information stored in the operation rule database 22. As shown in FIG. First, among the data extracted as the operation rules, the transmission cycle is confirmed, and it is determined whether today is the transmission date (step 204). The transmission cycle is "D" shown in FIG. 3B, which means "daily transmission", "W" means "send on weekend", and "M" means "end of month". To "send to". Thereby, the transmission date is confirmed. If it is determined in step 204 that today is not the transmission date, the process proceeds to step 210. On the other hand, in step 204, if today is the transmission date, the data of the “project name”, “work name”, “report form number”, and “e-mail address” in the data of this operation rule are reported as a progress report. The request is sent to the request creation processing unit 12, and the progress report request creation processing unit 12 creates a file to be transmitted by e-mail to the developer in accordance with the data. That is, first, an e-mail header is created using the “project name”, “work name”, and “e-mail destination” (step 20).
5). Further, a report form corresponding to the number is extracted from the report form collection database 23 based on the “report form number”. Then, the header part of the e-mail and the report form are combined (step 206). Further, the head of the progress report submitted last time, for example, the line with "#" is extracted, and a continuation management item is added to the progress report request to be transmitted, thereby completing the progress report request (step 20).
7). Here, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of the progress report form. The items added as the continuous management items in the progress report request form are the continuous management items shown in the lower column of the progress report in FIG. Will be reported as

Next, the report transmission / reception processing unit 13 transmits the created progress report request to the developer (step 20).
8) The transmission flag of the corresponding data in the operation status information database is set (step 209), and the transmission is managed. Here, FIG. 3C is a diagram showing the information structure of the operation status information database. As the operation status information, “project name”, “work name”, “transmission date”,
“Reception date” and “administrator check” are stored. next,
The variable “i” is set to “i + 1” (step 210), and it is determined whether or not the i-th number is in the operation rule (step 2).
11). If there is an i-th number, the process proceeds to step 203. If there is no i-th number, the transmission process is terminated.

Next, FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the reception processing of the progress management support apparatus. In FIG. 5, first, the report transmission / reception processing unit 13 receives a progress report by e-mail from a developer (step 501). Then, the report transmission / reception processing unit 13 determines whether or not the report has already been received by referring to the operation status information database (step 50).
2). If not received, the reception date is entered in the reception date column of the operation status information (step 503). Then, the report storage processing unit 14 reads the identification data of the progress report and stores it in the report holder 24 (step 504),
The receiving process ends. On the other hand, in step 502,
If the progress report has already been received, the storage process is manually performed (step 505).

The results of transmission of the progress report request and reception of the progress report are stored in the operation status information database 25 each time, and the report collection status display processing unit 15 is used.
Performs output processing according to an input from the input / output unit 3 and outputs the result. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display process performed by the report collection status display processing unit 15. In this way, the information stored in the operation status information database 25 is processed by displaying a list of the current report request / report reception status on an output unit such as a display, and the administrator can manage the operation.

[0027]

As described above, according to the present invention, in a project progress management support system for managing and supporting the progress of a project such as software development, a progress report for preparing a progress report request for each work of the project is provided. A report request creation processing means, and a progress report request created by the progress report request creation processing means is transmitted from a manager of the project to each developer in charge of the project at a predetermined cycle corresponding to the project. Report transmission / reception processing means for receiving a progress report returned from each developer in response to the progress report request, transmission status of the progress report request by the report transmission / reception processing means, and the progress report Report collection status display processing means for displaying a list of the collection status of the progress report based on the reception status of the report. As a result, the progress of each work can be automatically managed even when working on distributed projects, and the administrator can reduce the time and effort involved in managing the progress and communicate with the managers. It has the advantage that it can be achieved.

Another advantage is that when a problem occurs during the execution of a project, the work performed can be automatically and continuously reported in the subsequent progress status.

Further, there is an advantage that the manager can easily manage whether or not the report from the manager is being made as scheduled.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a progress management support device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a progress report transmission process.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of information stored in a database unit 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a progress report form.

FIG. 5 is a reception processing flowchart of the progress management support device.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of display processing by a report collection status display processing unit 15;

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 system processing unit 2 database unit 3 input / output unit 4 communication medium 5-1 to 5-n computer system 11 startup processing unit 12 progress report request creation processing unit 13 report transmission / reception processing unit 14 report storage processing unit 15 report Collection status display processing unit 21 Holiday information database 22 Operation rule database 23 Report form collection database 24 Report holder 25 Operation status information database

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Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A project progress management support system for managing and supporting the progress of a project such as software development, wherein: a progress report request creation processing means for creating a progress report request for each work of the project; Progress report request transmission processing means for transmitting the progress report request created by the report request creation processing means from the manager of the project to each developer in charge of the project at a predetermined cycle corresponding to the project; Progress report reception processing means for receiving a progress report returned from each developer in response to the transmission of the progress report request by the report request transmission processing means; and Based on the status of transmission of the progress report request and the status of reception of the progress report by the progress report reception processing means, Progress report project progress management support system which is characterized in that it comprises a report recovery situation display processing means that the recovery situation to display a list of. 2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising: a first database storing transmission cycle information of the progress report request for each operation and form designation information of the progress report request. A progress report request for each work of the project is created based on the form designation information stored in the first database, and the progress report request transmission processing means transmits the progress report request to the transmission cycle information stored in the first database. 2. The project progress management support system according to claim 1, wherein the progress report request created by the progress report request creation processing means is transmitted to each developer in charge of the project by e-mail. And a second database for storing operation status information relating to the progress report request transmitted by the progress report request transmission processing means and the progress report request received by the progress report reception processing means. The report collection status display processing means displays a list of collection statuses of the progress report based on operation status information stored in the second database.
The project status management support system described. 4. The progress report request creation processing means adds a continuation management item to the progress report request received by the progress report reception processing means based on operation status information stored in the second database. 4. The project progress management support system according to claim 3, wherein the progress report request is created by using the progress report.