Comments on: Guest Post: Meeting Mapping

By: Srinivasan S

Srinivasan S — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:57:49 +0000

Hi,
As a product manager, i completely agree with using mind maps for almost everything. I use open source apps such as Xmind, FreeMind to take notes of meeting, do some hard thing on new features, capture details of market data/ reports, capture features from competitive products etc.,

Best thing about the above mind mapping applications is that you can move the details around into more logical categories as you and when you keep getting clarity on the topic.

Srinivasan S

By: Stewart Rogers

Stewart Rogers — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:17:01 +0000

I see a lot of product managers using mind mapping tools and I think it is almost critical for effective market sensing.
Stewart

By: Michael Ray Hopkin

Michael Ray Hopkin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:32:49 +0000

David, it sounds like you have a lot of experience with mind/idea mapping. I agree that minimizing verbiage helps you get more ideas down more quickly, and that makes it much easier to construct sentences, paragraphs and much more when you flesh it out. -Michael

By: David Locke

David Locke — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:12:50 +0000

I’ve known mindmappers that map chunks as large as a paragraph. I tend to map words and phrases. I use a different grammar, not so much trees as layers and stacks.

Less verbiage lets you build various sentence when you review.