Mind Mapping

Challenge

I am the Team leader of my organization’s developer department and our challenge is to  improve the testing methodologies within the department to improve the quality of the  software releases. The project should not exceed 30 business days and the solution should  include an even distribution of working hours amongst the team members. We will focus on  the workflow and the documentation required for our customers.

Selection

Mind Mapping is a visual representation of all information collected during the research  process of the Testing workflow and it is best to analyze all possibilities in a creative and easy  to follow format.

Our team is ready to try the mind mapping tool to organize ideas and analyze all situations  through breaking things down into smaller parts.

Application

After having been inspired by customer challenges or problems through gathering data, it is  time to mind mapping and generate insights and as many ideas as possible as potential  solutions. For this stage we require a lot of planning and preparation to ensure that the results  are rich and interesting. For ideation, we need to designate a team that can generate potential  solutions.

First, we focused on the current testing workflow and explained to the participants what we  are trying to improve, and we wrote in the center of the map this topic.

As mind mapping is a creative activity, each member may produce many ideas as possible  which are writing into the map and connected to the topic with the main keyword.

Then, we organized these ideas together to have a proper connection between each other and  the main center point or idea.

We expected to produce a mind map with a clear representation of our new, more agile  workflow.

Insight

By applying the mind mapping tool, our team create new ideas about the testing workflow.

During the ideation session we generated a visual representation of all the ideas and combine  the most novel ones and to develop them into concepts.

Now we have visual elements such as colors, shapes, and icons to represent ideas and legible  and clear words in order to make easier for the attendees to read it in the next stages.

Approach

This our first experience after the course, so we need to review the insight gained and try to  improve the workflow and the timebox of the meetings. We should have a unified style of map  mapping to define elements and the linkage between them, in this way the next time that we  need to use mind mapping the meeting will be more fluent.


Mind Mapping Challenge I am the Team leader of my organization ’s developer department and our challenge is to improve the testing methodologies within the department to improve the quality of the software releases . The project should not exceed 30 business days and the solution should include an even distribution of working hours amongst the team members . We will focus on the workflow and the documentation required for our customers . Selection Mind Mapping is a visual representation of all information collected during the research process of the Testing workflow and it is best to analyze all possibilities in a creative and easy to follow format . Our team is ready to try the mind mapping tool to organize ideas and analyze all situations through breaking things down into smaller parts . Application After having been inspired by customer challenges or problems through gathering data , it is time to mind mapping and generate insights and as many ideas as possible as potential solutions . For this stage we require a lot of planning and preparation to ensure that the results are rich and interesting . For ideation , we need to designate a team that can generate potential solutions . First , we focused on the current testing workflow and explained to the participants what we are trying to improve , and we wrote in the center of the map this topic . As mind mapping is a creative activity , each member may produce many ideas as possible which are writing into the map and connected to the topic with the main keyword . Then , we organized these ideas together to have a proper connection between each other and the main center point or idea . We expected to produce a mind map with a clear representation of our new , more agile workflow . Insight By applying the mind mapping tool , our team create new ideas about the testing workflow . During the ideation session we generated a visual representation of all the ideas and combine the most novel ones and to develop them into concepts . Now we have visual elements such as colors , shapes , and icons to represent ideas and legible and clear words in order to make easier for the attendees to read it in the next stages . Approach This our first experience after the course , so we need to review the insight gained and try to improve the workflow and the timebox of the meetings . We should have a unified style of map mapping to define elements and the linkage between them , in this way the next time that we need to use mind mapping the meeting will be more fluent .