Task Version Management System: A Tool for Logging, Monitoring and Evaluating Task Performance

Abstract

Project management activities are difficult to control, monitor, and evaluate due to a constant requirement mutation and complex transactional exchanges among team and non-team players. Amid the proliferation of Project Management Software in the market, the quest for an effective tool that accurately tracks and evaluates the most significant unit of a task still continues.

Experiments performed from 2011 to 2013 have shown that control and measurement of transactional details are more precise on the task version rather than the task level. Increase in productivity was remarkable when a team of developers implemented the task versioning technique in their activities. ‘

The tool, Task Version Management System (TVMS), is a solution that facilitates post-logging of activities, implements the task versioning technique, and reduces diverse transactional exchanges among project players into six pairs of requests and its corresponding response.

The overall goal was to provide the project players an interactive, informative, and collaborative environment to ensure that on a day-to-day basis, a version of a significant task is strategically carried out toward the achievement of a grand organizational goal.