Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for viewing and managing work items. A work item management application is provided to allow a user to view and manage a plurality of work items from a single view. An interactive viewing feature is provided to allow the user to interactively view complex relationships between selected groups of work items. When the user selects all of the work items of a particular type in a work item group, the orphaned items are visually indicated. A many-to-many linker feature allows the user to create many-to-many relationships between a selected group of the work items in a single operation.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to a system and/or methodology that facilitate navigation and monitoring of one or more processes. Within each process, one or more activities or events can be monitored. In particular, navigation through a process can be improved by employing a parameter-based magnification tool. The invention provides for a magnification component that can navigate through aggregations of activities as they relate to one or more processes according to a parameter or metric unit. As a result, a user can view a business process or scheme, for instance, from multiple perspectives at the same time or individually to observe its state or status, trends or patterns, locate problems areas, inefficiencies, or efficiencies within the process, and/or optimize the process or a sub-part thereof.

Abstract: A methodology for realtime paperless research in focus group generating valid actionable feedback and data before, during or within a very short period of the session. The methodology includes collection, processing mapping, analyzing and recognizing patterns of data points using multiple iterations in order to generate and output the valid actionable research data. The actionable data can be defined by converging data patterns and composite scores derived during the session. The methodology provides software tools and electronic survey mechanisms such that sufficient time can be expended to discuss the results between iterations. These interactive and focused discussions drive immediate changes in the survey such that the survey is ready in a short period of time for the next iteration. Converging patterns are generated by overlaying data from each iteration on top of the old data. Subcategories under parent categories are similarly processed during the group session.