Agile Methodology

Agile methodology is an excellent alternative to waterfall and traditional sequential development. ConceptDraw PRO software extended with SCRUM Workflow solution is ideal for quick and easy designing various diagrams, charts, mind maps and schematics illustrating software development using Agile methodologies, and in particular Scrum methodology.

7 Management & Planning Tools

The 7 Management and Planning Tools solution available from ConceptDraw Solution Park implements well-known methodologies and provides the comprehensive set of tools for problems' analysis and solving. Different products from multifunctional ConceptDraw Office suite may be used as a complete solution for any of methodologies offered by this solution and provide a visual communication during every stage of work. Use the MINDMAP 7 Management & Planning Tools for step-by-step identification and analysis the problems, for planning solving and corrective actions, and also countermeasures to address the risks. 7 Management and Planning Tools solution is perfect for managers in medium to large companies, who require effective tools to address the management issue, for business consultants, trainers and coaches to help visualize the problem's solving by using 7 MP Tools methodology, to structure the problem's affecting factors, analyze their root causes and cause and effect relations, to highlight drivers and indicators factors, to prioritize factors using ranking by criteria set.

Relations Diagram

Relations Diagram was first used in electronics industry with a goal to find the key words and phrases in a text, and now is used in variety of fields. Relations Diagram defines visually the complex relationships between different elements and uses the boxes to represent these elements and the arrows to show the links. Relations Diagram allows the most extensively consider the problems, to represent visually relationships between the factors, processes, areas. It can be effective in organizing the diversity of ideas generated during the brainstorming session, lets identify the causes factors called "Drivers" and effects factors called "Indicators", detect such important characteristics as Key Performance Indicators that help to monitor the changes and effectiveness of corrective actions in the process of problem solving. ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PRO applications that are included to ConceptDraw suite, offer a lot of useful tools that help perform the brainstorm session and easy design Relations Diagram. To make effectively Relations Diagram simply identify the problem, capture the issues, draw the arrows and count the influencers.

Quality Control

Using mind mapping for quality management is a creative approach that allows one to structure all key quality points on the one page.

Task Board

Scrum is a widely used Agile framework for completing the complex projects. Originally invented for software development teams, it is now successfully applied for any innovative scope of work and any business industry. The Task board is an integral part and the most popular tool of the Scrum method. It is a simple, but powerful tool that is usually represented as a table consisting of rows and columns. The Task board contains the columns To Do, Work In Process, To Verify, Done and the set of tasks, each task starts at the To Do column. So, each team participant can see at a glance on a Task board which tasks are currently in work and which are already completed. The Task board reflects the current status of the project and moreover lets detect the problem situations, and then take promptly the needed measures. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software offers the powerful tools to depict the Task board in a form of Mind Map, to visualize Agile management methodologies Scrum and Kanban, and their hybrid Scrum-ban.

Fishbone Diagram

The use of specific types of visual diagrams is effective way to problems solving and decisions making. Fishbone diagram is a graphical tool used for visual and systematical analyzing the relationships between the solved problem and causes affecting its occurrence. It has hierarchical structure and that's why is well-suited for capturing in a mind map for a process of reviewing what branch is a real root cause of a given issue. ConceptDraw Office products and PM solutions offered by ConceptDraw STORE give the powerful help in questions of planning and project management. ConceptDraw PRO and ConceptDraw MINDMAP applications perfectly suit for designing professional-looking Fishbone Diagrams and allow effectively identify the root causes of quality issues using the Fishbone diagrams. The PM Response solution from the Project Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is powerful for improvement the response time to project changes, helps with iteration planning, with solving project challenges and discussing project layout approaches.

Sprint Review (Demo)

There are many popular project management methods, among them Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Six Sigma, and others. Sprint is one of the main terms, it is an iteration or a working cycle in Scrum methodology, that continues from weeks to months, and during which is created a working version of a given product or its item that has a great value for a customer. The represented Mind Map is designed at ConceptDraw MINDMAP software and demonstrates the Sprint Review (Demo) meeting agenda. You can easily modify it, if needed, and use as a convenient template for all Sprint Review meetings. Numerous PM solutions included to ConceptDraw Solution Park and represented as a Project Management area, support a lot of project methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Simple Projects. The ConceptDraw solutions help effectively in implementing the best practices in project management, in dealing the common project situations in an extraordinary way, in planning and tracking projects implementation, milestones, events, resource usage, and many 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 PRO 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.

Gantt Chart Diagram

Gantt Chart is a popular type of bar charts and widely used projects planning method. It helps to illustrate the plan for some project, the progress of tasks, the resources planning, the schedule of works and working time. The Gantt Chart contains a set of intervals (bars) located on the time axis and reflects the use of resources by objects. Each bar represents a separate task in the project, its length is a duration of the work. The vertical axis of the graph represents the list of tasks. Besides, the chart can contain additional data, such as the percents of complete, the total tasks, the tasks dependencies, the key points (milestones), etc. The use of Gantt Chart greatly simplifies the project management and enables to visualize in visual and compressed view the most important information of the project, what resources are used for execution the certain tasks and which must to be the speed of their execution. ConceptDraw Office suite applications help to cope perfectly the project management tasks, to construct easily the basic structure of your project and create a Gantt Chart Diagram. PM Easy solution allows you to plan and execute the projects using the mind mapping technique, to implement planning using mind mapping, and track tasks using ConceptDraw Project.