Quick Project Start

Project Management

In PM solutions we support many project methodologies such as Agile and Simple Projects. Methodology solutions help in implementing best practices in project management. CS Odessa provides Toolbox solutions to support solving issues related to planning, tracking, milestones, events, resource usage, and other typical project management functions. Toolbox Solutions help you deal with common project situations in an extraordinary way.

PM Easy

Objective

Supports methodology neutral project management.

Solution Purpose

Rapid project startup is possible using mind mapping to gather requirements from your team and then plan activities in visual mind mapping format. Using mind mapping one can establish time lines, delineate tasks, assign resources, and organize overall project structure. The flexibility of using mind mapping to start a project is the most efficient manner to build the initial project plan.

Intended For

Project managers of small projects that work in a small or medium size organization, and are starting to use a project methodology. This solution is targeted for project managers who are looking for easy ways to get their projects successfully started.

Benefits

This solution helps you quickly start a project efficiently by listing tasks relations and dependencies. It makes iterative planning really easy because of the flexible and visual nature of mind mapping. Visual tools such as mind mapping, increases the effectiveness of task tracking and analyses.

Products and methods

PM Made Easy allows you to plan and execute projects using mind mapping techniques, implement planning using mind mapping, and track tasks using CD Project.

Create plan for high level tasks and milestones, represent as a mind map project plan.

Example 1.Quick Project Start

The Benefits for ConceptDraw MINDMAP Brainstorming Software

ConceptDraw MINDMAP is effective for brainstorming, designing mind maps, idea generating, creative and lateral thinking, creativity and problem solving.
ConceptDraw MINDMAP is ideal for team and personal work in Business, Marketing and Project Management.
The libraries with large quantity of vector objects help to illustrate your mind maps and to make them bright, visual and comprehensible.
Use of View Navigator tool lets create presentations from a mind map: you can simply select the map parts you want to present, sequence your slides, and preview the presentation.
ConceptDraw MINDMAP provides wide capabilities of importing and exporting in various formats: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, MS Excel, Mindjet MindManager, image, HTML, PDF file.

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Picture: Sprint Planning Meeting Agenda

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Mind Map Exchange

Basic Flowchart Symbols and Meaning →

While creating flowcharts and process flow diagrams, you should use special objects to define different statements, so anyone aware of flowcharts can get your scheme right. There is a short and an extended list of basic flowchart symbols and their meaning. Basic flowchart symbols include terminator objects, rectangles for describing steps of a process, diamonds representing appearing conditions and questions and parallelograms to show incoming data. This diagram gives a general review of the standard symbols that are used when creating flowcharts and process flow diagrams. The practice of using a set of standard flowchart symbols was admitted in order to make flowcharts and other process flow diagrams created by any person properly understandable by other people. The flowchart symbols depict different kinds of actions and phases in a process. The sequence of the actions, and the relationships between them are shown by special lines and arrows. There are a large number of flowchart symbols. Which of them can be used in the particular diagram depends on its type. For instance, some symbols used in data flow diagrams usually are not used in the process flowcharts. Business process system use exactly these flowchart symbols.

Picture: Basic Flowchart Symbols and Meaning