Realization Technologies, Inc.

Subramanian Muthu

Ajai Kapoor

Corvin Bazgan

Pankaj P Painuly

Travis F Higgins

Puneet Murgai

Sanjeev K Gupta

Ravi Shankar

Anthony H Hoang

Prakash Kumar Pati

Sridharan Chandrasekaran

Methods and apparatuses are described for creating and using full-kit tasks, monitoring the progress of full-kit tasks, determining full-kit dates, checking compliance of release conditions associated with full-kit tasks, and/or computing and reporting full-kit task delays. A full-kit task can be used in the project plan to represent the preparations that are required or recommended to be performed before executing a set of tasks. The full-kit task can be a zero-duration task that has a full-kit date and that includes a list of items which need to be completed by the full-kit date. The full-kit task is capable of being in one of the following states: not started, in progress, released, and completed. In some embodiments, the set of tasks associated with the full-kit task can only be started if the full-kit task is either in the released state or the completed state.

Full-kit management in projects: computing the full-kit delay

Full-kit management in projects: checking full-kit compliance

Full-kit management in projects: determining the full-kit date

A method on a computer for providing critical chain-based project management is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one project plan for a project comprising a plurality of tasks and calculating a task priority for each of the plurality of tasks based on the at least one project plan. The method further includes receiving at least one sub-task for a first task of the plurality of tasks and assigning the at least one sub-task a task priority identical to the task priority of the first task. In one alternative, the method further includes receiving a new task priority for the first task, assigning the new task priority to the first task and assigning the new task priority to the at least one sub-task of the first task. The method may also include an interface to allow starting of sub-tasks only when the parent task is started.

Facilitation of multi-project management using task hierarchy

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