Item: MindManager
Rating: 8
Author: Stuart Porter

Overall Satisfaction with MindManager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mainly used as a way to organise "brain dumps", discussions, brainstorms, and just good place to collect and organise ideas. They are created during initial project kick offs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Collect and link ideas/subjects together
Easy and intuitive startup to create "brain dumps"

Cons

Moving around big diagrams can be difficult
Making the simple diagrams where there is a central element with lots of floating topics around it can look a little messy as the connection lines all overlap and squiggle all over the page

Return on Investment

I use the software for an ERP project right now. It's a very complex and involving project where discussions grow, arms and legs very quickly. MindManager with next to no planning, allows us to capture requirements, topics of discussions, things to consider and arrange them into the different business areas very quickly, infact, at speaking pace. I find it easier than writing notes down.
Additionally as it is on a mind map, it is shareable and I have one other trusted user with the ability to view the mind map and discover what is happening or where we are at with a specific element of the project. Much better than using notepads or typed Word docs. As you can link topics together and show flows of thought properly the mind maps become pretty self explanatory which is near impossible making raw notes

Common Applications for MindManager

Brainstorming
Problem Solving

Information Visualization Benefits

As previously discussed noting down at conversation pace, topics, linked subjects and being able to demonstrate how things link together as they often are in my ERP project is a really good way for people to see how you are organizing things and capturing requirements.

Key Insights

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of MindManager go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy MindManager again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Getting ideas down quick and organised is pretty easy and you don't need to trained on MindManager to be able to do this. It's a good, clear way of laying out such information where different aspects can be broken down and linked together. Those discussions that grow arms and legs are easily manageable with this software which can be incredibly difficult to follow during conversations.

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MindManager - A great way to manage your thoughts and ideas quickly