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Project PlanningGet your project heading in the right direction with NovaMindDo you have difficulty explaining the goals of projects to your staff? Is it difficult to get their buy-in to the project? Have you ever had one of those "projects from hell" where important tasks were missed out, or there were insufficient allowances made for the risk factors? Do you ever try bringing new staff on to a project which is underway, and have great difficulty in getting them to understand the big picture of what the project goals are? These problems are often very costly, in terms of time, money and reputation. Just about every project manager has faced these issues at some time in their career, so you are not alone! With NovaMind, you can plan out your project goals, objectives and tasks. NovaMind is used during the initial stages of the project to brainstorm the project goals and potential solutions. This provides a powerful way for the staff involved in planning the project to work together, building a definition of the problem that will be solved by the project. You use the graphics libraries, images, and color and shape to enhance the Mind Map, making it clear to everyone what ideas are related to each other, and the importance of the tasks. From this you build a Mind Map with all the major tasks and their subtasks identified on branches of the Mind Map, again using visual representations to identify task relationships and building clarity. Everyone understands clearly the goals and tasks involved in the project because they can see how everything fits together visually. The task information can be included on the Mind Map with the start and finish dates, priorities and percentage complete, or checkboxes can be used for smaller tasks. To sell the project to management and customers, the Mind Maps can be shown in NovaMind or quickly exported to a web site, Powerpoint or Keynote presentation. For documentation for management, the outline of the project can be quickly incorporated into an MS Word document. From there, if you are using a Mac, you can use Merlin for complete project management.
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