Apparatus and methods for requirements decomposition and management

US8209211B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• James B. Engle · Tucson, US
• John Donald Lauer · Tucson, US
• Eric Galen Davis · Tucson, US
• Ashaki Ayanna Ricketts · Tucson, US
• Nedzad Taljanovic · Tucson, US
• Evan Thomas Webster · Sahuarita, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 18, 2008
• Grant date: Jun 26, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0206
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus and methods are disclosed for requirements decomposition and management. The apparatus includes a collection module, an organization module, and a graph module. These modules carry out the steps of collecting a project task description, the project task description comprising one or more properties, generating a directed acyclic hierarchy of one or more project tasks associated with the project task description, and generating a directed acyclic hierarchical graph view of the project, wherein the directed acyclic hierarchical graph view of the project comprises one or more nodes representing the one or more project tasks, and wherein the one or more nodes are arranged to graphically illustrate a directed acyclic hierarchical relationship between the one or more project tasks.