Oracle International Corporation

Niladri Sekhar De

Mani Kumar Vran Kasibhatla

Srinivasu Dudala

Surya Vedula

Manish Kumar

Raghavan Srinivasan

Vaibhav Aparimit

John S John

Mani Kumar V R A N Kasibhatla

Systems, methods, and other embodiments are disclosed that are configured to generate and temporally associate task structures in a computerized project plan representing tasks of a project. In one embodiment, a temporally dependent relationship is formed between a successor task structure and a group of predecessor task structures within the computerized project plan, in response to user interaction with a graphical user interface associated with the computerized project plan. The temporally dependent relationship is formed by allowing a temporal event associated with the successor task structure to be recorded within the computerized project plan as having occurred only after a temporal criterion is recorded within the computerized project plan as having been met for a defined number of predecessor task structures in the group. The defined number is less than a total number of predecessor task structures in the group.

System and method for providing temporal dependencies between tasks

A system is provided that visualizes task progress update history. The system displays a project plan timeline within a user interface, where the project plan timeline includes tasks indicators that visually represent tasks and a timeline including time unit indicators that visually represent time units. The system further displaying task progress update history within the project plan timeline, where the task progress update history includes task progress update indicators that visually represent task progress updates, and where a task progress update indicator visually indicates a date-time of a task progress update and a task progress reported by the task progress update.

Task progress update history visualization system

A system is provided that visualizes task assignments. The system displays a project plan timeline within a user interface. The system further displays a first resource indicator and a second resource indicator within the project plan timeline. The system further displays a task indicator within the first resource indicator. The system further defines a side-area region of the task indicator, where the defining the side-area region designates the task as a multi-resource enabled task. The system further assigns the task to the second resource in response to a drag of the side-area region of the task indicator and a drop within the second resource indicator, where the task is assigned to both the first resource and the second resource. The system further displays a first task part indicator and a second task part indicator within the project plan timeline in place of the display of the task indicator. The first task part indicator is displayed within the first resource indicator and the second task part indicator is displayed within the second resource indicator.

Visual task assignment system

Systems, methods, and other embodiments are disclosed that are configured to make tradeoffs between time and quality for tasks of a project in a computerized project plan. In one embodiment, at task of a project is represented as a task data structure in a computerized project plan. A time duration in which to complete the task may be automatically transformed in the task data structure by manually changing a quality level of a result of the task in the task data structure in response to user interaction with a graphical user interface of the computerized project plan. Similarly, the quality level of the result of the task may be automatically transformed in the task data structure by manually changing the time duration in which to complete the task in the task data structure in response to user interaction with the graphical user interface of the computerized project plan.

System and method for providing a tradeoff between time and quality for a task

Systems, methods, and other embodiments for providing management of tasks of a project plan associated with a computer application are described. In one embodiment, a task management tool is disclosed that is configured to generate a task rectangle for display in a task management view. The task rectangle is representative of a task of the project plan in a Cartesian plane format having two attribute axes. An attribute indicium is also generated for display at a first position within the task rectangle as determined by the intersection of two attribute values of the first task on each of the two attribute axes, respectively. At least one of the two attribute values may be modified by re-positioning the attribute indicium at a second position within the task rectangle. The two attribute values take on two attribute axes values of the Cartesian plane format that intersect at the second position.

Managing multiple tasks of a project plan via a task management tool

A system is provided that visualizes an allocation of resources. The system displays a chart, where the chart includes a list of tasks and a timeline including time units. The system further displays task indicators within the timeline of the chart, where a task indicator includes task indicator segments, and where an area of a task indicator segment is proportional to a work scope of a resource allocated to a corresponding task. The system further receives a user interaction that includes a movement of the task indicator segment from a first task indicator that corresponds to a first task to a second task indicator that corresponds to a second task. The system further allocates the resource from the first task to the second task. The system further modifies the display of at least one task indicator within the timeline of the chart based on the allocation of the resource.

Visual resource allocation system

A system is provided that visually represents a planning structure. The system displays a node that represents an element of the planning structure and a value associated with the element within a user interface. The system further receives a first user interaction that is a movement of a cursor over the node in a direction. The system further generates child elements within the planning structure in response to the first user interaction, where the child elements are children of the element. The system further generates values associated with the child elements, where a combination of the values is equal to the original value. The system further displays child nodes that represent the child elements and the values within the user interface. The system further displays lines between the node and the child nodes, where each line represents a parent-child relationship.

Graphical top-down planning system

A system is provided that performs automatic variable zooming. The system displays a project plan timeline within a user interface, where a project plan timeline includes one or more tasks and a timeline includes one or more time units. The system further receives an instruction to invoke automatic variable zooming on the displayed project plan timeline. The system further receives a criteria. The system further calculates one or more scores for the one or more time units of the project plan timeline based on the criteria. The system further adjusts a zoom level for one or more portions of the project plan timeline based on the one or more calculated scores.

Automatic variable zooming system for a project plan timeline

A system is provided that automatically assigns tasks to resources. The system receives a notification that a resource is about to enter an idle period or has entered the idle period. The system further automatically assigns a filler task or a portion of the filler task to the resource, where the filler task is a task that can be split into multiple portions. The system further receives a notification that the resource is about to exit the idle period or has exited the idle period. The system further automatically un-assigns the filler task or the portion of the filler task from the resource.

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