Carol Lindsey
Joined: 18 Apr 2005
Posts: 28
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 10:55 am Post subject: Starting documenting with mind maps |
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Almost all activities such as project start-up, strategy development, risk management, process improvement, etc, require documenting.
You can use mind maps almost for 80% of the lifecycle: brainstorming, clustering (also known as meta-planning), elaboration, prioritization & documentation. You can draft processes in mind map software and construct any documentation before final formatting within PowerPoint or Word.
The main advantage of using mind maps for documenting is that you can see the whole structure of document set at one glance. It helps to not become involved in all complicated interdependencies between different documents.
Also you can use linking to support the whole project through its mind map.
For example, I know, that security professionals use mind maps to support information security policy. They draw the whole structure with topics like security standards, methods, technologies and so on. Then they create parallel maps concerned with this structure, for example - information security policy for users and for administrators, normative documents of security policy and so on. Then they link these maps with one another and link each topic with relative document. As the result they have united document set with transparent structure and user-friendly layers.
Of course, everyone have his own way to manage his projects, but all of us can be guided by other people's experience. |
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