System and method for planning a design project, coordinating project resources and tools and monitoring project progress

摘要

A method and structure for coordinating resources to complete a design project prioritizes tasks to create a project plan, automatically notifies resources of task responsibilities and associated due dates based on the project plan through the use of encryption keys, controls access to the design data through the use of the encryption keys assigned to the resources, automatically monitors work being performed on tasks through a computerized network, and automatically notifies a project team leader of task completion status, overdue tasks, and tasks being ignored, based on the monitoring.