Thursday, April 19, 2018

The Best Mind Mapping Tool for Software Product Manager

Ralph Garcia recommend Visual Paradigm Online to be the best mind mapping tool for software product manager.

According to Ralph, a good mind mapping tool should allow people to focus on generating and organizing ideas, not on operating the drawing tool. VP Online is web based drawing software that features a variety of delicate mind map examples, templates and editing features, which allows users to create organized and style-rich mind map for a variety of purposes like ideas generation, problem solving, presentation, brainstorming, task management, project management, etc.

Here are some key benefits Ralph suggested:
  • Create new concept and idea nodes with hot key (this allows you focus on brainstorming instead of operating the tool)
  • Drag to move the whole branch of nodes, which saves you a lot of time in maintaining a perfect layout
  • Automatic colored nodes. This helps you categorize ideas by applying different color code automatically.
From what Ralph said, VP Online also support other diagram types such as Flowchart, UML, ArchiMate, ERD, mind map, organization chart, venn diagram, SWOT, PESTLE, floowplan, AWS Architecture Diagram, etc.

What is Mind Map?

A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is hierarchical and shows relationships among pieces of the whole. It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those. (From Wikipedia)

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