Problem Opportunity ConceptMap/MindMap

Various ConceptMap/MindMap tools can be useful to organize ideas about the project. Here we look for a concept map about the perceived problem space and opportunities. It is a useful way to capture brainstorming ideas from the two teams and then organize them in a documentation-oriented, visual way.

A nice example from 2019 AREC (using Mindmeister)
Screen shot attached below. If the map does not display in Mindmeister, hit Refresh.

Recall that the same concept/mindmapping tools can also be useful for describing a design and its requirements. Common decompositions are Design Function/Structure and User/Action/Interaction (click on the example at right).

• VUE from Tufts University is free to educational users and has some nice tools for annotating and analyzing the bubble-link graphs.

For cloud-based collaborative concept/mind-mapping, a couple of useful tools are

• Miro https://miro.com

• Mural https://mural.co

• Creately https://creately.com

• LucidChart https://lucidchart.com

• Mindmup https://www.mindmup.com/ -- this one is quite simple

• Mindmeister https://www.mindmeister.com