why i became interested in mind mapping
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This presentation is about my personal story to become a mind map userTRANSCRIPT
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