Ways you can use a mind map:
* As a dashboard for all your current projects, then link out to detailed documents and add task, date and resource information to topics.
* To help organize and flesh out the structure of any written document - an article, proposal, report, brief, lecture, etc.
* To help you run more effective meetings by arranging the information in a more actionable way faster.
* To get ideas flowing at the very beginning stages of planning or brainstorming - the visual display allows you to see connections you didn't consider before.
Additional Product Manager specific uses include:
* Figuring out your strategy
* Creating business cases
* Capturing and organizing market research
* Brainstorming product & campaign ideas
* Developing launch & campaign plans
* Tracking competition
* Gathering product requirements
* Conducting interviews (e.g. efficient note-taking)
It can still be useful even if you are the only one creating maps in your organization.
Maps can often be good presentation tools that give others a diagrammatic representation of your points.
Furthermore, maps can be exported into different formats that people are familiar with, like Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF.
* As a dashboard for all your current projects, then link out to detailed documents and add task, date and resource information to topics.
* To help organize and flesh out the structure of any written document - an article, proposal, report, brief, lecture, etc.
* To help you run more effective meetings by arranging the information in a more actionable way faster.
* To get ideas flowing at the very beginning stages of planning or brainstorming - the visual display allows you to see connections you didn't consider before.
Additional Product Manager specific uses include:
* Figuring out your strategy
* Creating business cases
* Capturing and organizing market research
* Brainstorming product & campaign ideas
* Developing launch & campaign plans
* Tracking competition
* Gathering product requirements
* Conducting interviews (e.g. efficient note-taking)
It can still be useful even if you are the only one creating maps in your organization.
Maps can often be good presentation tools that give others a diagrammatic representation of your points.
Furthermore, maps can be exported into different formats that people are familiar with, like Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF.
1 comment:
There's a wiki on mind mapping that has an article covering the many uses of mind mapping:
http://www.informationtamers.com/WikIT/index.php?title=Uses_of_mind_maps
It goes into this very deeply and has links off to other articles describing each use.
Argey
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