MM review
March 20, 2024
MM review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- MindManager Professional
Overall Satisfaction with MindManager
Understanding complex interrelationships between seeming unrelated issues. Creatively imagining, capturing and then logically arranging verbal data to document concepts. Taking concepts and making them into planning categories. Looking at risk and approaches to mitigate it. Showing progress to plans. Integration with Excel and PPT to develop and communicate ideas, plans, etc. to a broader community.
- Linking ideas to together without logically grouping them together
- creating general concepts or exploring approaches to a complex task
- developing hierarchies from concepts, such as plans - goals to WBS
- I don't care for the forced formality of the new templates - I cannot always use a "Snap-to" style arrangement feature - there is very little flexibility for allowing different spacing between things within a template.
- The feature set has grown so now training is absolutely necessary to get beyond surface capabilities. I need flexibility to find out how to do something now, not when a seminar comes along.
- IRT the above, where are the example files used in training seminars located? Why do I have to ask about that?
- there may be solutions to my issues, but where do I find them now, not later.
- saves time and painful "sausage making" experiences
- saves time of expensive people - quickly communicates a dynamic vs. fixed idea to a senior level group of people
- saves time of developing from scratch - imports data from MS.
- save time developing presentations - can export to browser based view
- Strategic Planning
- Brainstorming
- Process Mapping
- Problem Solving
- Project Planning
1 to 10
I saved time and effort by going "around the watercooler" level discussion to formal documentation of business related processes, products, etc. in a more collaborative environment where concurrence usually slows things like new product development down to a crawl. The positive visual impact gained by walking through a map is something to take advantage of from the very beginning.
Did not use any. However, there are now some useful links to AI programs which create very interesting maps, really is just another way of outputting AI search results. These take the form of add ins so are not all that common now. Still it is easy to find them on line.
Do you think MindManager delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with MindManager's feature set?
Yes
Did MindManager live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of MindManager go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy MindManager again?
Yes