So, when first designing your project, you can present your mind-map in the form of a work breakdown structure and quickly adjust for changes suggested by your team. Mind maps are easier to jigger in real time than in a Microsoft Project schedule or Excel spreadsheet, and much easier to share within a group of collaborators who are watching on-screen as you jointly break down the work.

Here’s why… Creating a Mind-mapped WBS is a Great Way to Collaborate And project managers can also benefit from this easy-to-do technique when designing project plans and schedules. Writers use this technique to better prepare and organize articles for their editors (just as I have done with this article - no thanks needed, Madam Editor). Students now learn this technique in school so that term papers and research reports are better thought out and organized for their professors. “Mind-mapping” (or, as it is also known, “concept mapping”) is a proven method and technology for organizing your thinking, no matter what you’re thinking about.

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