ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,720, issued on June 3.
"System and method for task-based estimation and planning of application development projects and resources" was invented by Chidambaram Subbiah (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are disclosed for a task-based approach to the generation of a project estimation. The systems and method described herein generate design patterns associated with a software development project based on historical information at a task level. Validate the design patterns. Decompose the design patterns into scenarios having a plurality of tasks. Survey the scenarios. Develop a plurality of estimate baselines b...