Peer Graded Assignment

Mind Mapping Tool

Challenge & Selection

Mind mapping tool is a critical design tool that harnesses the power of the brain  to think smarter,  learn faster and communicate better. I’m a student at my institution and my/our challenge is to  improve the workflow on the projects and activities when working with the members as a team.   So the current project is basically to develop a robotic model and we are suppose to first design a  prototype of it. While working on the project there are several challenges like cumulation of  different thoughts, sometimes lack of delivering the actual thoughts, improper synchronization of  steps while finding solutions to various problem. Using the tool we will focus on trying to  uncover the information our team members can structure, how they can analyze and put forth  their ideas through this process.

Application

So I started the process by gathering all the team members and delivering a presentation  regarding the project topic to them. While going through the presentation the members are asked  to note down the points which they find to be important also jot down those points which they  can explore and modify in a different manner. All the members had different piece of  information collected while glancing through the presentation. Once the presentation was over,  the members were asked to paste the highlighted notes on a soft board one by one, all of them  had different views regarding every topic of the presentation. All the highlighted points were put  before the members one by one and each point was discussed in brief. What became the centre of  attraction was that every team member had valuable insight, creative thoughts and different ways  of overcoming the problems and exploring methods to finding the solution.

Insight and Approach

The outcome of using this tool was that drawing conclusions to points had become easier,  additionally, we thought through anticipated results, expecting to find that a more agile approach  would improve our workflow.Given that our team has already gone through several design  thinking activities/tools and are at this stage in the timeline, the mind mapping is the appropriate  tool. As previously mentioned, our team needs to review the approach towards working and  managing all the aspects for project management.  Future project management, progress made  has become closer to a compelling solution ready for full rollout.

