Method and system for configuring a user interface

A system for configuring a user interface, comprising:

• a user model defining one or more user roles and one or more user tasks, each user role being linked to:
• one or more user tasks via one or more user goals, and
• a set of skills a user performing the role must have,
• wherein each task is linked to one or more skills;
• a software product defining one or more software functions, means for linking each user task to a sequence of software function calls;
• an organization modeling tool including means for customizing the user model dynamically to alter the user role to task mapping to meet the current needs of an organization including means for validating the goals and sets of skills of the user model;
• a display structure model including means for configuring a user interface to a user role, the display structure model being a runtime component for dynamically building control menus for groups of tasks depending on the user role of the logged on user.

A computer program product stored on a computer readable storage medium, comprising computer readable program code means for performing the steps of:

• providing a user model defining one or more user roles and one or more user tasks, each user role being linked to:
• one or more user tasks via one or more user goals, and
• a set of skills a user performing the role must have,
• wherein each task is linked to one or more skills;
• defining one or more software functions of a software product, each user task being linked to a sequence of software function calls;
• customizing the user model dynamically to alter the user role to task mapping to meet the current needs of an organization including validating the goals and sets of skills of the user model;
• and
• configuring a user interface to a user role by providing a runtime component for dynamically building control menus for groups of tasks depending on the user role of the logged on user.