ML Team Structure Recommendation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methodologies for determining optimal software development team composition and structure in agile environments fail to account for various factors such as skill levels, team dynamics, and project requirements, leading to sub-optimal team performance and inefficiencies.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that automatically learns and recommends optimal team structures by mining data from multiple sources, including source code repositories, social networks, and HR databases, using machine learning to select the most suitable software development methodologies and build tailored development environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If automated machine learning is used to select software development methodologies, then team composition optimality and project effectiveness are improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproject effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

An automated recommendation system acts as an intermediary between multiple knowledge bases (team members, teams, past projects, software processes) and the decision-making process. The system integrates data from these diverse sources and applies machine learning algorithms to generate methodology recommendations, mediating the complexity by centralizing the analysis function in a dedicated system rather than requiring manual integration of all factors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-building multiple specialized knowledge bases that store historical and contextual information about team members, teams, past projects, and software development processes. These knowledge bases are constructed in advance and continuously updated, allowing the machine learning model to make informed recommendations without requiring real-time analysis of all raw data, thus reducing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If multiple knowledge bases are integrated for methodology selection, then recommendation accuracy is improved, but data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the overall knowledge management task into multiple specialized knowledge bases, each focusing on a specific aspect (team members, teams, past projects, software processes). This segmentation allows for more efficient data organization, indexing, and retrieval operations compared to a single monolithic database, reducing the time required to process and analyze the total information set while maintaining comprehensive coverage for accurate recommendations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10332073B2Agile team structure and processes recommendation
Publication Date: 2019.06.25 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Automatically learning and providing software development team structure and methodologies. A software development knowledgebase repository is generated by mining for software processes data over a network of computer systems. A team structure specification and project requirement associated with a target project is received. A software development methodology is selected from the software development knowledgebase repository based on the team structure specification and project requirement associated with a target project, a team members knowledgebase, a teams knowledgebase, and a past projects knowledgebase. A machine learning module automatically learns a software development methodology to select. Based on the software development methodology, a software development environment infrastructure for the target project is built.