MIND MAPPING
Mind mapping consolidates ideas created through individual brainstorming sessions into a single map to reflect commonality and differences in understanding and to generate new ideas.
Where do we use mind mapping in Project management?
In the following section, we present briefly discuss how this technique is used in PMBOK processes where it is used.
Collection Requirements
Mind mapping is used as a technique to consolidate ideas created through individual brainstorming sessions into a single map to reflect commonality and differences in understanding and to generate new ideas. In the example below we see the commonality is requirements and requirements category and different specific requirements are grouped. This helps to think the team to further add to these categories.
Plan Quality Management
A mind map in quality is often created around a single quality concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank landscape page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words, and parts of words are added. The mind-mapping technique may help in the rapid gathering of project quality requirements, constraints, dependencies, and relationships.
Plan Stakeholder Engagement
Mind mapping is used to visually organize information about stakeholders and their relationship to each other and the organization. A typical analysis of stakeholders is mapped in a mind map and depicted below
Step 1 : Create a Central Idea
Step 2 : Add branches to your map.
Step 3 : Add keywords
Step 4 : Color code your branches
Step 5 : Include images
Sources:
- Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – sixth edition
- iMindMap https://imindmap.com/how-to-mind-map/
- the mind maps above are drawn through Microsoft Visio 2016
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