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You know what? I use MindVisualizer to design MindVisualizer nowadays

I recently talked with Bob Walsh about using mind mapping in one’s MicroIsv business and here is the brief  descriptions of my usages:

1. Running   SWOT analysises :
   1. List all competitor products I can find on the Internet;
   2. List all advantages and disadvantages for each of them;
   3. Use colors, icons and fonts to identify important parts I need to pay more attentions.

   By seeing the big picture, it’s a really a better experience than doing SWOT with tables or other non-visual approaches.

2. Making up my pricing strategy:
   1. List all my competitor products;
   2. List all available editions for each of them;
   3. List the unit prices and discount strategies for each.
   4. Compare and get your pricing strategy out.
3. Planning new features:
   1. Brainstorm all ideas;
   2. Identify features by its importance, with icons, colors, whatsoever;
   3. Identify whether a feature should be in the standard edition or professional edition;
   4. Like work breakdown in Project Management, I can breakdown features into functions;
   5. I can even turn the listed features/functions into tasks by assigning a scheduled date, expected duration, etc.

As you can see there are a lof of things for MindVisualizer to do with task scheduling part, in fact that is what we are working on – a project called ProjectVisualizer

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