Distributed project management system and method

US6308164A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Jeff Nummelin · Saint Johnsbury Center, US
• Mark Young · La Cañada Flintridge, US
• John Lanata · Scituate, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2001
• Expiry date: Apr 28, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99931
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An enterprise project management system includes a system for creating new projects and adding project tasks and resources to the system. Information used to create the projects, project tasks and resources is input at a workstation that may or may not be connected to the enterprise network. The information used to create projects, project tasks and resources includes primary and secondary information. The primary information is essential to the project management system for storing the project, project task and resource and for creating or modifying the project schedules. The secondary information is categorization or classification information useful for reporting and not essential to the scheduling function of the system. The secondary information fields are validated by comparing at least some of them with a set of predefined valid values for each field.