Creative process modeling and tracking system

摘要

One embodiment is a system that allows multiple entities to track a process for developing a product. The system receives a process defined in terms of the entities, which are involved in the process, and the relationships, which exist among the entities. The system permits a process instance to be created from the defined process upon deeming that the process is valid, and permits the first process instance to be tracked with respect to requirements and solutions that are specified by entities in the process instance.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
receive a process comprising a plurality of levels; create a first process instance from the defined process, the first process instance comprised of a plurality of first process entities; permit the first process instance to be tracked based at least on requirements and solutions that are specified by the first process entities in the first process instance; wherein the first process instance comprises an assignment of one or more first users for each of the first process entities and determines a status of each of the first process entities; wherein each level comprises one or more components, and each component contributes to a description of its corresponding level, and the process comprises a plurality of relationships between components on different levels; and allow an assigned user of a first component to propose a new relationship to assigned users of selected components at different selected levels, and tracking for later retrieval the proposed new relationship including a proposal date and an acceptance date wherein each component comprises an associated hyperlink that when selected provides a content of the component; provide a first link in association with a first process name identifying the first process instance, the first link providing access to detailed information regarding selected components of the first process instance, the detailed information comprising: a status map to provide an overall status of each component of the selected process instance, the status map being a graphical representation of the defined process; a listing of a set of requirements of a first selected component and a listing of a set of solutions of a second selected component; a listing of a set of component relationships involving the first selected component and the second selected component, wherein each component relationship indicates proposed solutions of the second selected component to the requirements of the first selected component; a listing of a status of each of the component relationships within the set of component relationships; and an indication as to whether each of the component relationships within the set of component relationships have been approved, wherein an approval date is provided in association with each approved component relationship.