GAMIFIED PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

Gamified computerized project management system and method which harnesses the innate human desire for playful competition and continual skill advancement to improve organizational productivity. The system allows team member bidding on project tasks, where they accumulate points according to various criteria including how well their work product meets previously established criteria, as well as an opportunity to acquire additional points from mastering various task related learning material. Other factors, such as providing assistance to other team members, evaluating work product, and the like are also awarded points. Competition is fostered by allowing team members to see where their point score ranks versus other players, while teamwork and member skill growth is also encouraged. Gamified project management files containing comprehensive project records may be saved, converted to standard project management files, or constructed by translation process that gamifies standard project management files. Standard prefabricated gamified project files may also be used.

主权项

1. A method of operating a gamified computerized project management system configured to manage at least one project, each project comprising at least one task, at least some of said at least one tasks requiring at least one work product;
said gamified project management system also comprising at least one processor, memory, gamified project management software, and a plurality of network connected computer user interfaces for a plurality of participants; said participants comprising a plurality of actual or potential team members and at least one manager; said method comprising: using at least one user interface to assign at least some participants to at least one task, thereby designating these potential team members as team members; using at least one user interface to assign a plurality of task points to each at least one task, wherein if said task requires work product, at least some of said task points are assigned to said work product; using at least one user interface to assign a plurality of team member points to each team member for at least some actions, to be performed by said team member, that will be subsequently entered into said memory; wherein at least some actions, assigned to an identified team member, require said identified team member to provide at least evidence of completed work product; using said gamified project management system to distribute, to all team members, a common set of standards that communicate the desired state of said at least one task and said evidence of completed work product upon completion; using said at least one user interface to enter an identified team member's evidence of completed work product into memory; using said at least one user interface and at least one reviewer to retrieve said evidence of completed work product from memory, perform at least one review of said evidence of completed work product against said common set of standards, and for each at least one reviewer, enter that reviewer's completed work product review into said memory; for each review, using the results of said at least one reviewer's completed work product review to score said identified team member; and save this score from said identified team member in memory; wherein said gamified project management software further comprises a feedback algorithm configured to use said identified team member's score results to generate task work product points for the successful completion of said task work product, and to store said task work product points, and their link to said identified team member, in memory; using said processor and said gamified project management software to automatically provide, on a plurality of team member user interfaces, at least information to identified team members regarding their task work product points, and at least some information that varies at least according to the task work product points associated with other identified team members, thus creating a game-like competition between different team members.