Project Management

Mind Maps is a visual tool that helps to structure, understand and analyze the information, to find new ideas and solutions to problems. They find their application in many areas of life due to the fact that are convenient graphical way of presenting information. The project management is one of the most popular applications of Mind Maps, which give you the opportunity to make your project plan, to navigate easier in the project and manage it visually, to systematize knowledge, to get a clear picture of what is happening in the project, to save time and quickly find the right solutions and possible defects. Mind Maps ideally suit as a way to make notes during the meetings, presentations, conferences, to record ideas generated during a brainstorming. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software is effective for using in project management. It offers the tools for brainstorming and Mind Maps construction, helps project managers to visually represent the whole project, its implementation phases, to track the current state and switch between the different levels of detailing, showing or hiding some branches. ConcepDraw MINDMAP lets the possibility to make the report or presentation from your Mind Map and provides the compatibility with ConceptDraw Project and MS Project.

Quality Project Management with Mind Maps

The visual form of mind maps is helpful in all stages of quality management, from describing problem to describing and documenting a decision.

One formula of professional mind mapping : input data + output data + make great presentation

ConceptDraw MINDMAP is a powerful software from ConceptDraw Office suite, which provides a lot of tools and components for professional Mind Mapping. Besides the extensive tools for creation attractive and great-looking Mind Maps, it offers also wide import capabilities from MS Office files and mind mapping files MindJet MindManager, XMind and FreeMind, extensive export capabilities to common formats, such as PDF, HTML, different graphic formats, the possibility to generate MS Office documents, Project Management reports, PowerPoint presentations and demonstrate them via Skype conference call. Use of Skype conference call feature lets you to demonstrate the presentation's slide show and control it on computers of Skype call participants. This Report Mind Map example created in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software depicts the current project status and includes many pages and slides. This Project Status Report can be easy played as a slide show presentation on the large screen or to remote team using Skype conference call.

Total Quality Management

The desire to encourage the production of competitive goods led to the establishment of new method of continuous quality improvement of all organizational processes, production and service. This method successfully launched in Japan and the USA was named Total Quality Management (TQM). Now, the TQM is a dynamically developed concept, a strategic approach to management that is based on manufacturing goods or services of the best quality among innovative counterparts from the point of view of consumers. The main idea of TQM is that the company should work not only on the product quality, but also on the quality of company's work, including the work of staff. The constant parallel improvement of product quality, quality of organization processes, level of qualification the personnel allow to achieve more rapid and effective business development. Mind Maps are effective in a field of quality management and allow to structure all key quality points on one page. This Mind Map designed in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software illustrates the well-known Total Quality Management (TQM) methodology.

How To Use Collaboration Tool in Project Management

Collaboration tool for project management enables you to give a new role to knowledge management and document sharing within your team.

Product Overview

The role of ConceptDraw MINDMAP is to organize and plan idea development and communicate between process participants. Mind maps are convenient to prepare presentations for team and management and send task lists and related information.

What is a Quality Management

Successful quality management implemented in a company of any size is a critical component of a company organization.

How to exchange data files of major mind mapping software?

ConceptDraw MINDMAP software included to powerful ConceptDraw Office suite is applied for professional creation the Mind Maps, for effective managing the communications within the work group or team, for holding brainstorming sessions. The ability of exchanging the documents and files of different types, including Mind Maps is very useful for users that need to collaborate, but apply varied applications in their work. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports the export to many Microsoft Office products, such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, as well as export to PDF, HTML, Evernote, Apple iCal, and different graphic format files. The Mind Map Exchange solution from the Collaboration area of ConceptDraw Solution Park makes the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software powerful in questions of exchanging the Mind Maps with large variety of major mind mapping applications, including Mindjet MindManager, FreeMind, XMind. If you can't to find some file format you need at the import / export list, you can refer to the third party applications to import or export the files through them.

Dealing with Difficult People

Every day we communicate with many people, but sometimes we meet the people with a complex character that do not go towards, in spite of all our efforts. There are about twelve types of people that are recognized as difficult. What we need to do when dealing with a difficult person? Anyway you must realize that you can not avoid the meeting with people, who consciously or unconsciously, will complicate your life. No matter where you are faced with a difficult person - at work, study, or in other occasions, it is needed try to find a compromise, you can use special approaches to dealing with difficult people. The key point in detecting the approach to difficult people is to realize that the person is difficult to communicate, to stay flexible and calm, retain neutrality, to apply to a specific person an individual approach, given its features, hidden needs and interests, and also your own priorities in this situation. Mind Map is a useful way to describe various approaches that you need to take when dealing with difficult people. Make it easy in ConceptDraw MINDMAP software.

How To Implement Collaborative Project Management

Collaborative Project Management via Skype is an ideal tool for project teams who need to master a growing project complexity.