How to Report on Project Milestones Using a Mind Map

Quick Project Start

The rapid project startup and creation of initial project plan is possible and easy using effective and flexible mind mapping technique, which lets to gather requirements from your team and then plan activities in a visual mind mapping format. Using this technique you can establish time lines, delineate tasks, assign resources, and organize the overall project structure in a form of Mind Map. The ConceptDraw MINDMAP software, PM Easy solution and other offered PM solutions help in project management and support many project methodologies, including Agile and Scrum. ConceptDraw Toolbox solutions help to deal easy with common project situations, they are helpful for planning projects, tracking the milestones, events and resource usage, and for many other functions typical for project management. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software helps project managers effectively create the plan for high level tasks and milestones, set the tasks relations and dependencies, represent the project plan as a Mind Map, successfully start and realize the project of any size, and track the tasks using the ConceptDraw Project.

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.

How to Report Task's Execution with Gantt Chart

ConceptDraw PROJECT’s powerful reporting engine lets you generate a set of tabular reports with just one click, or visualize your project as Radial Tasks Structures, Work Breakdown Structures and Resource Calendars. It also provides you with dynamic Project Dashboards.

Project Timeline

Project timeline is a type of chart which allows visually represent the chronology of works for the project, placing the key points of the project (milestones) on a timescale. You need to make professional looking project timeline? Create it with ConceptDraw PRO! ConceptDraw PRO extended with Timeline Diagrams Solution from the Management Area is the best timeline diagrams software

Timeline Diagrams

Timeline is a powerful tool for project management and project scheduling, it is a convenient way to represent a chronological sequence of events and critical milestones along a time axis. Timeline allows quickly understand the temporal relationships and to see the progress of a project schedule. ConceptDraw PRO extended with Timeline Diagrams solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is a powerful software for fast and easy drawing useful and great-looking timeline diagrams.

WBS Diagram

To simplify the managing of a complex project, it is advisable to divide it into the components in a hierarchical tree structure, called by Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). WBS diagram clearly divides all the works and tasks that must be done to achieve the objectives of the project, into the smaller operations and actions. Such division of the project accelerates the allocation of resources and establishes the areas of responsibility for each team member. WBS diagram is one of the main planning tools frequently used by project managers, it allows you to clearly define the entire scope of work on the project, to describe in details the content of these works and to arrange them in a form of hierarchical structure. The better you detailing the WBS, the more accurate will be all actions. The optimal size of elements is from the few days to several months. ConceptDraw Office suite applications and ConceptDraw Solution Park contain a lot of tools actively applied in project management, in their quantity is included the possibility of easy creation professional-looking Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) diagrams.

How to Make a Timeline

Timeline is a type of diagram which illustrates the series of events in a chronological order on a linear timescale. How to make a timeline? It is convenient to use a modern powerful software. ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Timeline Diagrams solution from the Management area is exactly what you need.

Computer Hardware - Reseller Business Plan

When developing a business plan it is very important to accurately represent the structure and visually outline all important information. A business plan usually has a clear hierarchical structure. The Mind Maps are particularly effective to describe such structures, they are one of the most powerful and visually intuitive tools for the tasks of structuring and memorizing large amounts of information. The Mind Maps are indispensable in development the complex projects, in preparation and discussion of business plans, in designing the presentations, in process of decision making, holding brainstorming, time management, etc. As for the software for working with Mind Maps, particularly effective is a cross-platform ConceptDraw MINDMAP software for Windows and Mac OS X. It provides many tools that help in business plan preparation for organizing the new business, in developing a business plan for promotion some product, etc. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports the multipage documents, the export and import into popular applications MS PowerPoint, MS Word, PDF, MindManager, in project management applications ConceptDraw Project and MS Project, and in various graphical formats. You can to observe a Mind Map of a business plan for computer hardware reseller designed in ConceptDraw MINDMAP.