How to Make a Mind Map from a Project Gantt Chart

ConceptDraw Office allows you to see the project data from ConceptDraw PROJECT in a mind map structure by opening your project in ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Manage a Multiple Project Participants Responsibilities With To-Do Mind Maps

All project participants are kept informed of their responsibilities in projects and can detail their tasks in a creative mind map format.

How to Make a Project Tasks Mind Map from Brainstorm

Start a project with creating a mind map, structuring ideas captured during a brainstorming session. The easiest way to start a new project is to conduct a brainstorming session that identifies the necessary tasks and then to develop it into a project schedule.

How to Convert a Mind Map into MS Project XML

The easiest way to start this project is to conduct a brainstorm session that identifies necessary tasks, then prepare a project schedule in the form of a Gantt chart and assign resources to tasks. With ConceptDraw MINDMAP, you can initiate a project using a mind map to represent all critical and important tasks. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports a mind map export to MS Project; it also allows import a project file from MS Project giving team members who use macOS or Windows a working visual map of a planned project.

How to Brainstorm with ConceptDraw MINDMAP

Brainstorming is a way of generating ideas related to a specific theme. Usually brainstorming involves a group of people generating a lot of ideas in a short period of time. The key to brainstorming is putting off the process of evaluating ideas until a later stage. The participants keep a record of their ideas as they come to mind, without thinking them over. Unorthodox and unusual thoughts are welcome, and no criticism or justification is allowed in order to encourage participation. Though one can brainstorm individually, the technique works better in a group, as ideas expressed by one participant trigger more ideas from others, often based on associations, and the participants can benefit from each other’s experience and knowledge.
Brainstorming using a software tool has a lot of advantages over the traditional way of capturing ideas like flip-charts or white-boards. The latter have physical size limitations, which constrain the process as the number of ideas grows. Ideas become scattered around the room, making it is easy to overlook important ideas. Further grouping and prioritizing of ideas is inconvenient and requires a lot of effort. ConceptDraw MINDMAP helps to avoid these problems. Read here how to run a Brainstorming session with ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

How to Import MS Project File to a Mind Map Using the Project Exchange Solution

ConceptDraw MINDMAP can export a mind map to MS Project; it can also import a project file from MS Project, making a working visual map of a planned project. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports inputting external data into a map with one click. Input capabilities are critical because it makes your data visual. When your data is visual, you can manage and communicate it using newly generated documents and/or presentations. Data you can input into your map can come from just about anywhere. Data can come from Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, the web, a mind map, and other electronic sources. You can input data as a task list, resource list, Gantt chart, brainstorm or search results.

How to Use Mind Map Exchange Solution

Using ConceptDraw MINDMAP you can import and export files of Microsoft Project, MindManager, XMind, FreeMind, Microsoft Office, and many other project management and mind mapping applications. You can create your own mind map based on the incoming files of different mind mapping software, and then export the final mind map to any desired format from the list of supported ones.