International Business Machines Corporation

Leendert P Geffen

Geoffrey M Clemm

Judith H Cass

Catherine G Col

A computer method and apparatus for managing changes for a given software system is disclosed. The invention method and apparatus forms a respective change request object to represent each user's request to make a change to a given software system. For each change request object, the invention method/apparatus provides an issue hierarchy of issue objects, a task hierarchy of task objects and an activity hierarchy of activity objects. Each issue object represents a respective issue, each task object defines work needed to address a respective issue and each activity object tracks respective work performed. There is provided a tabular user interface including a table representation of the respective issue hierarchy, task hierarchy and activity hierarchy of a change request object. The table representation serves as a to-do list per user and displays issue object, task objects, and activity objects as a function of user role.

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West Roxbury, MA, United States of America

Leendert P Geffen