MindMapSwitch

A Mind Mapper’s Story

Note from Editor:  This is a guest post by John Gray, a business analyst with a passion for visual thinking.

I started down the mind mapping route back when I was at university, it was the usual quest to see if I could get through university doing the least amount of work while spending the most amount of time in the pub. I got a copy of Tony Buzan’s “The Mind Map Book” and since then I have never looked back. First I began creating my own hand drawn maps on course material, experimented with my own mind map diary and before I knew it I was up and running.

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Mind Maps and Projects – Part 3: Task Management

In the final part of our series, we will look at how mind mapping can be used within projects for task management.

Projects always have tasks associated with them that need to be completed in order to complete or finish the project.  For your project, you could use a mind map to collate all the tasks that need to be carried out.  There are a number of different ways to do this but I usually find that the following method works well in many projects.

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Mind Map Recipe: Taking Notes at a Meeting

Do you dread going into the Monday morning meeting knowing that you’ll need to write copious amounts of information in case you miss that important item?  Well here’s a mind map recipe so that you will be ready for the meeting and be able to take down all those important points.

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Mind Maps and Projects – Part 2: The Project Charter

In this second part of the series, we’ll look at how we can mind map an often overlooked project document to help each member of the team stay focused on the end goal.

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Mind Maps and Projects – Part 1: Brainstorming

Over the next few weeks we’ll look at three ways where you can apply mind mapping within a project.

So you’re about to kick off a new project that you alone will manage.  If you are working on a project with a team, mind mapping can help you along the way.  In this first part of the series, we’ll look at how we can use a brainstorming session to generate ideas and then collate them into a single mind map for the team.

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