Facilitation of Multi-Project Management Using Critical Chain Methodology

A method on a computer for providing status information during critical chain-based project management across a plurality of projects, comprising:

• providing a graphical user interface to a user over a telecommunications network, wherein the graphical user interface conveys status information about a milestone belonging to a project of a plurality of projects;
• wherein the graphical user interface comprises a graph that plots a chain complete percentage over time along an x-axis and a milestone buffer consumption percentage over time along a y-axis;
• wherein the chain complete percentage at a given time is calculated by subtracting a time needed to complete a current longest chain of tasks including resource dependencies from a total time needed to finish an initial longest chain of tasks including resource dependencies, and dividing a result by the total time needed to finish the initial longest chain of tasks including resource dependencies;
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• wherein the milestone buffer consumption percentage is calculated by evaluating a buffer consumption percentage of every chain of tasks feeding into the milestone buffer and taking a highest value.

A computer system for providing status information during critical chain-based project management across a plurality of projects, comprising a memory storage device including computer instructions for:

• providing a graphical user interface to a user over a telecommunications network, wherein the graphical user interface conveys status information about a project belonging to a plurality of projects having a critical chain comprising a longest chain of tasks including resource dependencies calculated at commencement of the project;
• wherein the graphical user interface comprises a graph that plots a chain complete percentage of the critical chain over time along an x-axis and a project buffer consumption percentage over time along a y-axis;
• wherein the chain complete percentage of the critical chain at a given time is calculated by subtracting a time needed to complete a current longest chain of tasks including resource dependencies from a total time needed to finish the critical chain, and dividing a result by the total time needed to finish the critical chain;
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• wherein the project buffer consumption percentage is calculated by evaluating a buffer consumption percentage of every chain of tasks feeding into the project buffer and taking a highest value.