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.

Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Program Evaluation and Review Technique (abbr. PERT) is a method developed by Ministry of Defense of the USA in 1958 for the project of creation the missile system Polaris. PERT diagram is one of the tools for project management that lets greatly simplify the planning and scheduling of large and complex projects. PERT diagram provides evaluation of project run-time and labor forces, it helps to analyze the time necessary for execution each of project tasks and the whole project, and to calculate the project critical path. PERT chart depicts the set of tasks connected each other in order of their execution and is constructed according to one of definite rules - AOA (activity on arrow) or AON (activity on node). It doesn't give you ready concrete decisions, but helps to find them. Design easy the PERT diagrams in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software enhanced with Seven Management and Planning Tools solution from Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. You have a possibility to build the PERT chart of any type, but AON variant is easier for building and perception.

Communication Tool for Remote Project Management

Communication is the main challenge and the key success factor for remote project management. Communicating visually via Skype you bring all team and customers onto the one page. Remote Presentation for Skype solution for ConceptDraw MINDMAP helps communicate with remote team and customers in visual manner on wide range of issues. Using this solution for regular status meetings allows you to push your team on tasks and keep task statuses up to date.

Project — Working With Tasks

A full-featured project management solution with all the necessary functions right at your fingertips. Generates an extensive variety of reports on project and task statuses. These videos provide a series of lessons that will enhance the understanding of all our users, from people just starting out with the software, through to expert users.

Event-Driven Process Chain Diagram Software

It’s very easy, quick and convenient to draw the Event-driven Process Chain (EPC) diagrams in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software using the Event-driven Process Chain Diagrams Solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

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.

How to Prepare for a Presentation

Preparing for presentations easy with ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

What Constitutes a Project?

Separated into categories of Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced categories, the new instructional videos about ConceptDraw PROJECT cover a huge breadth of topics, explaining how to use project management software. Users new to ConceptDraw PROJECT will find the Basic lessons an essential platform for familiarizing themselves with the programs′s functions and found it simple project management software. This video lesson is the first in Basic lessons series tells about affordable simple project management software, it may be used as an intro for what is project management using simple project management sample. ConceptDraw PROJECT is excellent portfolio project management software, this lessons explains how to use project management software for small business in case of multi project environment.

Product Proposal Documents Expanded

A product proposal is a defined list of offered products oriented on a specific customer. Often it is created during the processing of sales documents. The list of product proposal documents includes expanded set of documents for the products and also the sales documents. There are many ways to visually represent and structure the information and data. The Mind Map is one of them and furthemore one of the most successful and popular. Any Mind Map can be designed manually or with of specialized software, the ConceptDraw MINDMAP is the best software for easy brainstorming and designing professional-looking Mind Maps of any complexity, any size and any color style. This Mind Map created with help of useful tools of ConceptDraw MINDMAP application, demonstrates the power of this application and organizes on one diagram the documents required for a product proposal. The use of a Mind Map to illustrate this list is an ideal choice and perfect way to represent all details and don't miss anything.

Online Collaboration via Skype

Collaborating with co-workers is very important, not only in order to get things done effectively, but also to keep in touch with the outside world. Great way for business collaboration is Skype.

Daily Planning

The time is priceless, so it is useful to rationally and productively arrange our day. The managing and organizing of time helps in increasing efficiency and in rising chances on the success. One of the best tools for personal time planning, self-organization and self-improvement is a Mind Map. It can become a great helper at your life, from the preparation your daily schedule to definition your life purpose. The Mind Map is a useful way to make convenient plan of working on the day, week, month, year. A well thought-out Mind Map is a guarantee of holding productive day and a great help at certain moments in order to not miss important affairs and events. Besides, a Mind Map is a very good way to keep your focus through the day and improve your quality of life. Organize and schedule easy each your day using the mind mapping technique and ConceptDraw MIDMAP software powerful in questions of mind mapping and organizing a daily schedule. It lets visually represent all important tasks and affairs on a single Daily Planning Mind Map, and lets highlight the most important and urgent tasks using the special symbols and clipart.

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.

Sales Plan

The welfare of the entire company depends on the work of sales department, since the volume of sales sets the level of incomes. The realistic and competently composed sales plan is a component of success, prosperity and stability of the company. The sales plan will help to define specific goal for development of organization for a specified period of time and to define the boundaries of possibilities. The business inevitably faces with various contingencies, but the task of sales department is to maximize the use of existing resources for successful realizing the sales plan. When constructing the sales plan, you should carefully analyze the macroeconomic and political trends, to study the situation on the market and forecasts for dynamics, to take in account the results of competitors, to carefully consider results of work of sales department for the last years and the pace of company's development, to analyze the causes of growth or decline of sales in certain periods. Set the realistic goals and make the sales plan easily in ConceptDraw MINDMAP , don't forget to include to the budget the expenses on sales, such as the costs for advertising, supplies, salaries and bonuses. Save your plan in the form of presentation for easy discussion with other employees of the company.

Must Have Suggestion

The increasing of sales directly depends from the improvement and perfection of the product and from adding new features must-have according to the customers' opinion. In this regard, it is important to have constant feedback with customers, to analyze their questions and make conclusions, to conduct various surveys, to maintain statistics, to monitor changes and market's improvement in a given segment. Heed to customers feedback, respond quickly to requests, consider proposals for improvements to develop your business, to increase the client orientation and competitiveness. The competition makes business more interesting and effective, that's why it is important to analyze the market, as well as the successes and suggestions of other companies in this field. In many cases detailed analysis will help to detect the trends and understand what features are in demand at the moment. This is very important, because timely addition of relevant features and effective possibilities in many cases helps to dramatically increase the popularity of the product and accordingly the volume of its sales. Don't be afraid to follow the expectations of your customers and surprise them also. This action Mind Map helps correctly respond to feature suggestions made by customers and for requirements related to must-have features. The example contains ready to use response phrases.

Presentation

The presentations have become an integral part of live of businessmen, teachers, pupils, students. They are not only convenient and visual way of presenting information, but also provide great opportunities for development creative thinking and implementation creative abilities. Today, the presentations are widely used in schools, universities, on scientific exhibitions, conferences, seminars, in advertising projects, etc. The presentation is an important component when conducting the reports, when presenting new projects and other works. The demonstration of video on a large screen during your speech allows you to focus the audience's attention on key points and to activate not only perception on hearing, but also a visual memory. Thus, the report with presentation is much more effective than simple speech. If your presentation is bright, colorful, clear and correctly presented to the audience, the success in achievement the set goal is guaranteed, but you need to prepare well for this, efficiently work over the material and use the user-friendly software for creating presentations. While preparing a presentation, consider the features of human psychology and perception, try to use as less the text and lists, replace them with illustrative diagrams, graphs, charts, maps. Use ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP professional software for their easy creation. The offered Mind Map helps organize the various aspects of a presentation.