Fabric-GC: A Blockchain-based Gantt Chart System for Cross-organizational Project Management

TL;DR

Fabric-GC is a blockchain-based Gantt chart system that enables secure, cross-organizational project management with improved data synchronization speed and access control, suitable for large-scale, distributed environments.

Contribution

It introduces a versatile blockchain system for cross-organizational project management, enhancing security, efficiency, and data synchronization compared to existing solutions.

Findings

Fabric-GC achieves four times faster data synchronization than public chains.

The system maintains stable performance in large-scale distributed environments.

It effectively enables secure, cross-organizational cooperation for project scheduling.

Abstract

Large-scale production is always associated with more and more development and interaction among peers, and many fields achieve higher economic benefits through project cooperation. However, project managers in the traditional centralized approach cannot rearrange their activities to cross-organizational project management. Thanks to its characteristics, the Blockchain can represent a valid solution to the problems mentioned above. In this article, we propose Fabric-GC, a Blockchain-based Gantt chart system. Fabric-GC enables to realize secure and effective cross-organizational cooperation for project management, providing access control to multiple parties for project visualization. Compared with other solutions, the proposed system is versatile, as it can be applied to project management in different fields and achieve effective and agile scheduling. Experimental results show that Fabric-GC achieves stable performance in large-scale request and processing distributed environments, where the data synchronization speed of the consortium chain reached four times faster than a public chain, achieving faster data consistency.