Reflection - Mind Mapping

Challenge:

When working in research, at the beginning of any project it is required to have clear ideas about  the topic to be carried out. Especially when working in a group, where each one, with their  experience, provides options for a project. Then it is necessary to understand and try to choose  a specific topic and focus our ideas towards the same point in order to carry out the initial idea.  The challenge is precisely this, to bring together the entire working group and, together, to  propose and choose the topic that will be developed during the project that begins.

Selection:

In this case, the tool I have chosen is the mind map since it allows the organization of ideas,  taking into account patterns and perspectives, as mentioned in module 3. With mind maps it is  possible to take the ideas of all group participants and organize them in such a way that you  have a clear idea of the options available.

Application:

In the case of the beginning of the planning of a project, the use of a mind map was quite useful  since, being a diverse group and each person with their own idea and theme, the map allowed  to organize all the ideas, put them in agreement to a topic, group them and then, among all the  participants, choose based on different criteria which one was convenient to continue to the  next stage. So, once the ideal theme was had, it was possible to start planning the rest of the  project, based on the map made.

Insight:

In this case, the use of a mind map is adequate to organize the different ideas that the people  who make up a work group have. In this way, each person participates actively and is able to  make their opinion known. In addition, it was useful for the challenge of starting a collaborative  project because the ideas were raised clearly and without limitations, helping to have different  points of view that helped to expand the repertoire of ideas and see which of them could be  more innovative.

Approach:

Although the mind map was a good decision for this challenge, the visualization tool could also  be applied since it allows to have a greater understanding of the ideas of each participant and  in this way to be able to solve the problem posed, visual thinking is, so to speak, the way to see  in a more direct and tangible way what another person thinks.

