Abstract: Disclosed are risk visualisation methods and systems of a production environment tool. Tasks are delivered to a task board in an arrangement that indicates how long the tasks have been on the board, that is, the defined time period. For each task, a penetration value is calculated which is derived from the time elapsed since the initiation time of the task as a percentage of the defined time period. A criterion of a percentile value of the tasks establishes a subset of the tasks that have lower penetration values. Then by determining a specific task in the subset of the sequence of tasks that is at the high end of the percentile value, a visual indication of that specific task on the board provides notice to an observer of the board of whether there is a risk that the resource is falling behind in task completion.

Abstract: Disclosed are risk visualisation methods and systems of a production environment tool. Tasks are delivered to a task board in an arrangement that indicates how long the tasks have been on the board, that is, the defined time period. For each task, a penetration value is calculated which is derived from the time elapsed since the initiation time of the task as a percentage of the defined time period. A criterion of a percentile value of the tasks establishes a subset of the tasks that have lower penetration values. Then by determining a specific task in the subset of the sequence of tasks that is at the high end of the percentile value, a visual indication of that specific task on the board provides notice to an observer of the board of whether there is a risk that the resource is falling behind in task completion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a management workflow system product including methods and systems for configuring and utilising acceptability bands and in one embodiment, utilising acceptability bands to release certain work items into a workflow buffer. Disclosed is generating as output one of the plurality of quantifiable values of an acceptability band for the set of workflow items as a measure of the acceptability of the set of workflow items. For particular workflow management variants that are exhibited in workflow items of a set of workflow items, by determining a set attribute score, that score is compared to the acceptability band wherein predetermined acceptability and diminishing acceptability relative to the predetermined acceptability are determined as one or more quantifiable values for the set of workflow items. Workflow management variants can include time estimates established by utilising an x-factor. Acceptability band values can be provided visually or may be utilised in the system background.