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MindManager is really good at the project brainstorming and planning stage. Its visual nature is ideal for creating a work breakdown structure and enabling the team to see the entire project at a glance. I use the org chart map layout to design that.

Compare that to a dedicated project management tool like Microsoft Project. I’ve seen project managers open it up and start entering rows of project tasks into the program’s Excel-like spreadsheet. As a result, team members see the tasks but not the context. That’s lost in the endless rows of project data.

That’s one of the real advantages of MindManager: You can see tasks in the context of the overall project – the forest AND the trees, if you will. Once the tasks are defined, information regarding task duration, resources, and dependencies can be added in MindManager. Finally, the project design can be exported to another tool such as Microsoft Project for finalization of the plan.

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Jeff Kearns CD, rmc, PEng, PMP

Principal Consultant

T. J. Kearns Consulting Inc.Program Development, 1-10 employees

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Pros

Collaboration- MindManager allows our North American team to collaborate on process flows and To Dos across multiple time zones and any hour someone wants to access files.
Visualization- It is easy to see all relevant information on a single pane of glass. Before MindManager, I was always toggling between applications or flipping through multiple pages of a virtual document to find the information I was looking for. Now, I can see it in one place.

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Tom Simmons

Director of Business Development

Red HatInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Over the 9+ years that I have been using MindManager, the application has added all functionality that I have longed for. My biggest one was having to use Microsoft Visio whenever I needed to create a flowchart. Now flowcharts are included as a map type, so I'm good.

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Marcus Machacek

Senior Marketing Communications Manager

University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

MindManager 10.0

Based on 18 answers

MindJet has been vigorous about product improvement, and every version has brought new capability and excitement to the product

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Bob Blacksberg

Principal

Blacksberg Associates, LLCLaw Practice, 1-10 employees

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Usability

MindManager 8.2

Based on 4 answers

One of the best software programs ever. Always my go-to program for most things.

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Greg Cimmarrusti, PMP

Senior Project Manager

DenovoInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I used to use Visio because MindManager didn't have an adequate process flow tool (which I always thought was strange). Now that it does, I am more than happy to stay within the same tool to take advantage of the other capabilities of MindManager like filtering and being able to display the information in other formats without recreating.

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Marcus Machacek

Senior Marketing Communications Manager

University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

I have saved lots of time that would have been spent spinning my wheels at the beginning of a project trying to get clarity on what I was trying to do.
I used MindManager to map out a website migration and it really helped me improve the quality of the migration by allowing me to track the status of pages (ie. what had been migrated, what still needed to be migrated, what shouldn't be migrated at all).

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Marcus Machacek

Senior Marketing Communications Manager

University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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