Detecting patterns that increase the risk of late delivery of a software project

US9563864B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Murray R. Cantor · Westwood, US
• Evelyn Duesterwald · Millwood, US
• Tamir Klinger · Brooklyn, US
• Peter K. Malkin · Yorktown Heights, US
• Paul M. Matchen · Bethel, US
• Stanley M. Sutton · Briarcliff Manor, US
• Peri L. Tarr · Briarcliff Manor, US
• Mark N. Wegman · Campion Road, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 2014
• Grant date: Feb 7, 2017
• Expiry date: Jan 17, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0635
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Historic and current development data associated with the project may be gathered. A catalog of patterns, each pattern associated with a data measure and an analysis routine capable of detecting the pattern according to the data measure in a given data set may be obtained. A pattern describes a particular indication in the historical and development data, which arises one or more of, at a discrete point in time or over a period of time. The analysis routine may be applied to the historic and current development data. A notification may be issued responsive to identifying the pattern in the historic and current development data. The applying and the issuing may be performed for each pattern in the catalog of patterns.