Implementation of teams and roles within a people oriented work environment

摘要

A method and apparatus for efficiently representing, maintaining and managing a project and enclosed lifecycles in a data processing system used to support a people-oriented work environment. An object- oriented language environment is utilized to represent projects, processes, states, transitions, users, roles, authorities, actors, members and activities as objects. Process, member, and authority objects inherit from project objects. State objects inherit from process objects. Transition objects inherit from state objects. Project and user objects inherit from actor objects.