Project engineering workflow and tracking integration

US8306887B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, L.P. · US

Inventors

• Gregory H. Bucholtz · Overland Park, US
• Royal Dean Howell · Trimble, US
• Mir Islam · Kansas City, US
• Robert Eugene McGuire · Lenexa, US
• Steven Charles Russell · Syracuse, US
• Christopher Schultz · Boston, US
• Bhanumathi Tenneti · Overland Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 6, 2010
• Grant date: Nov 6, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 22, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system is provided comprising a computer, project forecast, workflow allocations, and incurred expense databases, and an application on the computer extracting from the project forecast database a list of costs and revenues associated with a first and second project, costs comprising approved expenses described in the workflow allocations database and incurred expenses in the incurred expense database. The system determines the first project is operational and for a first subscriber base and the second project is incomplete and is to be for a second subscriber base, completion of the second project pending release of a remaining cost item. The system analyzes an alternate allocation of the cost item to improve the profitability of the first subscriber base, delaying the second project. The system determines the proposed alternate allocation increases the first subscriber base profitability more than a reduction of second subscriber base profitability resulting from the proposed alternate allocation.