Abstract: A computer system for optimizing dependencies of batch jobs includes a scheduling server and a computer terminal. The scheduling server schedules an execution order of batch jobs on at least one batch server. The computer terminal receives a user input and queries the scheduling server for precedent batch jobs of a target batch job. The viewing application receives a query result from the scheduling server and depicts, on an electronic display, a dependency tree that includes one or more precedent batch jobs and the target batch job. The viewing application further depicts a critical path that includes critical precedent batch jobs that process data required by the target batch job. The viewing application provides for optimizations that optimize the execution order of the batch jobs such that the target batch job finishes executing earlier than the target batch job would have finished executing without the one or more optimizations.