An organisation comprises individuals with varied intelligence and unique thinking abilities. Hence the need to have an environment whereby every individual is able to share his intelligence, much like a jigsaw puzzle piece, to help build the complete vision for the organisation and or individual projects.
Mind Maps are great visual and radiant thinking tools which not only helps enhance individual / team creativity but also provides an opportunity to integrate the project team members intelligence. Many Project Managers are increasingly using Mind Maps in their projects however at times they limit themselves to few areas for applying Mind Maps.
Following is a list of 40 instances along a project cycle where Mind Mapping can be very effectively used to harness the teams collective intelligence.
- Developing a Project Vision
- Defining a Project Communication Plan
- Conducting Benefit versus Cost Analysis for multiple scenarios
- Negotiation
- Problem Solving
- Building a Customers Landscape
- Capturing Learnings, Opportunities for Improvement and New Ideas
- Time Management
- Managing Ambiguity
- Project Feasibility Analysis
- Detailing Assumptions in Projects
- Project Benefit Analysis
- Defining a Project Charter
- Requirement’s Stratification
- Capturing the Project Scope
- Top level Milestone Reporting
- Estimating Project Cost
- Identification of all the Cost Elements of a project
- Skill Set Gap Analysis
- Communicating a Project Vision
- Stakeholders Communication Need Analysis
- Capturing Risks & Opportunities by Milestones
- Preparing and Conducting a Teleconference
- Conflict Resolution
- Communicating Emotions during a project lifecycle
- Impact Analysis of a Change to the project
- Individual Resources Activities
- Report and Monitor Project Critical Path
- Project Dashboard
- Quality Planning
- Cause Effect Analysis
- Investigative approach in Quality Control
- Quality Assurance
- Risk & Opportunities Identification
- Managing Procurement
- “Make” or “Buy’ Decision Analysis
- Project Pendency Checklist
- Capturing Project Learnings
- Conducting effective Retrospective Meets
- Project Portfolio Management
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