Work Management Device Identifying Delay Impacts
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Solution Overview
Problem
In scenarios where multiple individuals are responsible for allocating resources to tasks, existing technologies do not allow for real-time awareness of how other team members allocate resources or the impact of delays on their tasks.
Innovation Solution
A work management device that includes a progress acceptance unit to accept delay information and an impact identification unit to refer to allocation relation information, identifying tasks that share the same resources as delayed tasks, thus anticipating potential impacts of delays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple persons allocate resources to tasks independently, then allocation flexibility and operational autonomy are improved, but visibility of resource allocation across persons and awareness of delay impacts deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback by automatically identifying and notifying persons in charge of tasks that may be affected by delays. The impact identification unit references allocation relation information to determine which tasks share resources with delayed tasks, creating a feedback loop that keeps all persons informed of resource allocation status and potential delays across the entire task portfolio.
2Loss of information
If detailed tracking of resource allocation and delay impacts is implemented, then visibility of delay impacts is improved, but system complexity and computational requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-establishing and storing allocation relation information that maps resources to tasks before delays occur. When a delay is detected, the impact identification unit can quickly reference this pre-stored information to determine affected tasks, avoiding the need for complex real-time analysis and reducing computational burden during delay processing.
Data Source
AI summary
A progress acceptance unit (214) accepts delay information that indicates a delay task, which is a task in which a delay may occur. An impact identification unit (23) refers to allocation relation information that indicates resources respectively allocated to a plurality of tasks so as to identify a task that is allocated the same resource as a resource allocated to the delay task indicated by the delay information accepted by the progress acceptance unit (214) as an affected task that may be affected by a delay in the delay task. A notification unit (24) notifies a person in charge of the affected task identified by the impact identification unit (23).