US Patent Issued to FMR on May 27 for "Workforce management in an agile development environment" (New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,906, issued on May 27, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Workforce management in an agile development environment" was invented by Taleb Khyar Mohamed Vadel (Woonsocket, R.I.), Dan Mahoney (Hudson, N.H.) and Ellen Ryan (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described for workforce management in an Agile development environment. A server retrieves data from software development workforce applications, including Agile data. The server creates an Agile organization hierarchy data structure using the retrieved data. The Agile organization hierarchy data structure comprises developer nodes; develop...