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Agile Mind Maps: Exploring the User Wishes

Agile method advocate use cases and user stories, but there are no standard processes or guides available to help gather user requirements. That is why documenting user requirements can be challenging. Without strong communication experience the scrum process can collapse, leading towards unfruitful requirements and imperfect software. This article offers a path to overcome these hurdles through the simplicity and clearness of mind mapping. ConceptDraw Scrum Worflow solution lets explore the user requirements for your Agile development project before they are formalized. You can easily create professional Mind Maps that will effectively collect and structure the information on what a user actually wants, or the “User Wish.”

PM Agile

PM Agile solution provides powerful tools for project management, project planning and software development, ensuring support of Agile methods, assisting in holding the Scrum-meetings, collaborative planning sprints, maintaining backlog, calculating and reporting the velocity of the team. Intended for the companies using Agile methodology, specifically Scrum, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, software developers, and management specialists, this solution includes examples demonstrating the main principles of Agile methodology and Scrum, and numerous templates specially developed in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP applications. All Agile meetings and documents are powered by the mission of adapted Mind Map templates, tuned for collaborative work of development team. The key diagrams for visualization are made in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM.

Scrum Workflow

The Scrum Workflow Solution extends the capabilities of ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with a large collection of professionally-designed samples and a selection of ready-to-use scrum design elements: scrum diagrams and arrows, scrum icons of people, artifacts, workflow, workspace and other colorful scrum clipart, and also scrum charts.

Project Management Area

Project Management area provides Toolbox solutions to support solving issues related to planning, tracking, milestones, events, resource usage, and other typical project management functions.

Scrum

What is Scrum? Scrum is the famous agile software development methodology which depicts an iterative and incremental approach for the work on the complex projects. Use ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with SCRUM Workflow solution to draw various types of professional-looking Scrum Charts, Scrum Workflow Diagrams, Scrum Mind Maps, Scrum boards and attractive Scrum Infographics.

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How to Create an IDEF0 Diagram for an Application Development

IDEF0 methods are intended to model the functions of a process, creating a graphical model that displays: what controls the function, who makes it, what resources are used and how they are connected with other functions. The IDEF0 tool is used to model the decisions, actions, and activities of a software system during the development process. IDEF0 diagram graphically depicts a model of a desired version of the application. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM allows you to create and communicate the IDEF0 diagrams of any complexity.

Scrum process work items and workflow

Teams working with Scrum methodology use the product backlog items (PBIs), bug work item types (WITs), reports and dashboards. SCRUM Workflow solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software offers collection of samples, variety of predesigned objects, clipart and graphic elements, a set of Scrum process work items and workflow which are developed for agile teams working using Scrum.

ConceptDraw Solution Park

ConceptDraw Solution Park collects graphic extensions, examples and learning materials

UML Diagram

The accepted open standard that is used in software engineering and system design, when modeling object-oriented systems and business processes is known as Unified Modeling Language (UML). UML was created for definition, visualization, design and documentation software systems. It isn't a programming language, but on the base of UML model can be generated code. UML uses generic set of graphic notations for creation an abstract model of the system called UML-model. The UML notation lets visually represent requirements, subsystems, structural and behavioral patterns, logical and physical elements, etc. UML defines 13 types of diagrams: Class (Package), Use Case, Sequence, Object, Collaboration, Component, Timing, Interaction Overview, State Machine, Composite Structure, Activity, and Deployment. All these types of UML Diagrams can be fast and easy created with powerful ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with special Rapid UML solution from Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

PM Docs

PM Docs solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park extends ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with the ability to create and organize the project and company documentation, to structure information that relates to your project, to link the project documentation to tasks, phases, and resources. This solution contributes for improvement the project management abilities and enhancement the productivity of project team, makes it easier to locate the pertinent documentation over the life of a project, beginning from its planning, improves the document access and minimizes search time, lets to link or embed documentation into the project topics, helps create document, design professional Mind Maps, link the correct documents to keep them organized in a project, sort the project documents and visually differentiate the document types.

PM Personal Time Management

PM Personal Time Management solution extends the ConceptDraw Solution Park and all ConceptDraw Office suite products providing every project participant with tools and features allowing tracking timeframe, workspace and role in a project with the aid of Microreports, calendars, and project To-Do lists. PM Personal Time Management solution makes the collaborative work easier and improves personal performance, now each project participant stays informed about the task lists, calendars and future tasks for itself and its colleagues. Be effective in project management and personal time management, generate easily your personal To-Do lists, personal calendars, personal assignment lists, project checklists, and communicate with your colleagues using e-mail and sending project Microreports via e-mail with one click.

PM Meetings

PM Meetings solution extends ConceptDraw MINDMAP software with special tools, features, and templates, making the preparation for meetings of different orientation a quick and simple task, and allowing the project managers, team leaders, management specialists, and meeting organizers the capability to prepare easily and quickly for regular project meetings using solution's templates, to brainstorm ideas, to record brainstorming results, to keep the meetings on track, and to share meeting results immediately and without efforts. The meetings become more efficient because of the ability to easily record results, the collaborative team decisions are captured as a part of the meeting process, the meeting notes are easily distributed at a meeting’s conclusion to all participants and stakeholders.

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with templates, samples and libraries of vector stencils from drawing the ER-diagrams by Chen's and crow’s foot notations.

SSADM Diagram

The vector stencils library SSADM from the solution Systems engineering contains specific symbols of SSADM diagrams for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software. The Systems engineering solution is contained in Software Development area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. The example below illustrates the waterfall model used in SSADM. This model involves 5 stages of developing a product such as requirements specification and its' analysis, design, coding and testing.