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A lot of project managers are turning to Mind Mapping for their project planning needs.

There is detailed information on project planning using mind maps available on the NovaMind web site. The project planning page has just been updated with new mind maps to help explain the planning process.

Although standard project management packages such as MS Project and Merlin give you good tools to manage your projects, but they really have a strong tendency to get people focusing on the minute task levels of projects far too early in the inception phases of a project.

Others find it difficult to follow things like Gantt charts and the spreadsheet-like rows and columns of task data.

Often this leads to losing sight of the main objectives of the project, or getting so stuck in the details that you forget some important tasks or objectives. Or the attention of key people can wander off topic.

Using brainstorming techniques, you can put together a Mind Map of the project that shows everyone where they fit in, why each part of the project is important, and how it relates to the overall goals and objectives.

This makes it easy to make sure that there is nothing forgotten in the early planning and scoping exercises, as well as being a great tool for presenting to stakeholders in the project. If you are trying to get funding for a project, it makes it much easier when the project plan is drawn out as a Mind Map. Everyone can see what the objectives are for the project, how they are going to be achieved, the tasks that are required to achieve the tasks, as well as the resources that are required.

There are a number of articles on the NovaMind web site about project planning as well as other forms of planning using mind mapping techniques.

These techniques have saved millions of dollars in project costs, as well as helped win contracts, and ease the workload of project managers around the world.

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