Introduction

• This presentation is about my personal story to become a “mind map” user.

• The presentation is not about how to perform project management with mind maps.

Quotation

"If the human mind is to be conceived as a whole as well as parts, we need not just words to convey parts, but patterns, pictures and schemata to convey the whole.“ - Charles Hampden-Turner

Presentation Overview

Purpose: Inform– Abstraction– Metadata – Frameworks– Mind maps

Abstraction

Pursued a BA Degree in Math

Geometry Proclivity

Category TheoryAn abstract method for structures and relationships between them:

1976

Grouping and Relations

1979 Played Go with Bill Atkinson the inventor of Apple HyperCard

Hyper Card +

1979

Semantic Network Data ModelsModel abstraction

1982 Book: Data models by Dionysios C. Tsichritzis and Rrederick H Lochovsky

Porphyry of Tyros

DIFFERENT TYPES OF LONG-TERM MEMORY

http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/a/a_07/a_07_p/a_07_p_tra/a_07_p_tra.html#3

Metadata tools By Human and computer.

• Provides context for data• Facilitates and leverages

– Understanding– Usage– Data management

Metadata Example

1981 IBMs' DBDC Data Dictionary

• Generate COBOL copy libraries

• Document Methodology Specific Processes

Parse Cobol and JCL• 1984 ADPACs' Programming machines

standard solutions (PMSS)

The manual workers were jealous

• Automatic – IBM Job documentation– Database definitions– Application Inventory– Impact Studies– Business Rule Extraction– Application Documentation

A Mind Map Generates Files

• Exportable file types– Web pages– PowerPoint slides– Microsoft Project– Microsoft Visio– Microsoft Word

Web Page Example

Web Page Example 2

Web Page Example 3

IDEF (Integration DEFinition)

• Data Modeling

• Process modeling

• Simulation

1994 Business Objects

• Universes (Designed database access)– Database Schema Enhancement – Flatten hierarchy, – Overcome database limitations

Small Universe Example

Frameworks

John Zachman

Mind Maps

• Trust

• Why get visual

• Thinking

• Getting More visual

Execution matters but the thinking matters even more

End Part 1

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” ~ Chinese proverb

Three Kinds of Learners

• Kinetic (John Dewy)

• Auditory

• Visual

• Visual thinking is how we use our eyes (and our mind's eye) to – Look at a problem, – See patterns and opportunities, – Imagine ways to manipulate those patterns to

our advantage, and – Show those insights to others.

Visual thinking

Which of your 5 senses would you fear losing most?

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

~Publilius Syrus

This is art

This is design

An image may be more Influential than a substantial amount of text.

How Can We Get More Visual?

Getting Visual In

4 “M”s

Metaphor

Model

Source: Stephen P. Anderson

social experiencemodel

USEFUL

serves purpose

satisfies needs

Practical

Functional

Helpful

Effective

USABLE

Intuitive

easy

seamless

accessible

Efficient

DESIRABLE

enjoyable

pleasurable

delightful

memorable

Differentiated

SUSTAINABLE

scalable

maintainable

adaptive

Pliable

SOCIAL

shareable

open

distributed

dynamic

Collective

EXTERNAL CUSTOMER PARTICIPATION

INTERNAL CONSTITUENT COLLABORATION

BUSINESS OPTIMIZATION

metaphor

Foundation

The Basics(often broken)

NaturalProgression(toward socialExperiences)

Mind Map

Source: Dan Roam

You are here

Manifest

6 Steps To

Getting Visual

1. Empathize: See the world as a child

Observe Notice the little things that others miss

Make use of the whole brain and ALL of the senses.

Ask questions,even silly onesExploreEntertain your curiosity

How your mind works…

An idea or learn something new these brain cells interlink passing the

information down the branch of one cell across and over to another, like so:

Create “memory trace”

2. Memorize: Commit thoughts to memory

3. Analyze: Take a step back

4. Synthesize: Filter signal from noise

input

synthesis

output

5. Visualize: See it, then do it

6. Materialize: make it tangible, make it stick

Why your content should be visual

Gets people’s attention quickly

Helps us to learn faster + more effectively

Lets people do their own thinking

Helps us tell stories

Picture of a horse

Mathematical measurements

Introducing…

•Whole -brain alternative to linear thinking.

•Think in all directions and catches thoughts from any angle.

•Skills to help you analyze and manage in multiple paths.

Brain neuronDoesn’t our brain neuron look like a mind map itself?

You see, that’s how our brain works!

Say NO to Linear notes from now

on!!

Desktop Mind Map

Multi Map