An Object-Oriented Approach for Integrated Project Management Software

该提案概述了为项目管理开发软件的新办法，预计将对软件开发过程和所产生的应用程序的特点作出广泛的改进。总体目标是构建能够提供更大的灵活性、更高的智能性和更好的集成的系统。提议的方法不会取代传统的项目管理应用程序或专家系统等高级应用程序；相反，它为执行这些方案提供了一种更有效和统一的方法，并为这些应用程序提供了一个新的集成环境。拟议研究的基本方法严重依赖于面向对象编程的概念，是创建一组代表项目管理过程的基本要素的标准化软件对象。例如，将创建对象来表示建筑物的物理组件(例如，梁和柱)、生产这些物理组件所需的基本施工活动以及执行这些活动所需的资源。然后，根据一般的设计和开发指南，可以将这些基本的“构建块”对象拼凑在一起，形成各种项目管理应用程序的核心。

This proposal outlines a new approach to developing software for project management that is expected to offer a wide range of improvements to both the software development process and the characteristics of the resulting applications. The overall objectives are to construct systems that offer greater flexibility, higher intelligence, and significantly better integration. The proposed approach does not replace either traditional project management application or advanced application such as expert systems; rather, it offers a more efficient and uniform methodology for implementing these programs and a new integrated environment in which these application can reside. The basic approach of the proposed research which relies heavily on the concepts of object- oriented programming, is to create a set of standardized software objects that represent the fundamental elements of the project management process. For example, objects would be created to represent a building's physical components (e.g., beams and columns), the basic construction activities needed to produce these physical components, and the resources required to perform the activities. These basic "building block" objects could then be pieced together , according to general design and development guidelines, to form the core of various project management application programs.