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"Once more into the breach, dear friends," spoke Henry the Fifth, delivering the line Shakespeare  wrote in 1600 or so.  We're not invading France in the early 1400's as Henry was, but the line seems to fit.  This post delivers the third version of a software development sample, and like Henry I'm growing ...

This map template uses four distinct views - Logical, Sequence, Physical and Deployment - to capture different architectural aspects of a software system in an architectural description.  The template can be used to cover and entire system, or it can applied to specific pieces of a system.  An Organizational Irritant blog post ...

So we're back with the second installment of the Table Creation sample, rolling up Part 1 into Part 2 of a description of the MakeTable macros.  Attached to this post is Part 2 of the Table Creation sample in both Word and .CHM formats.  I'm using the rolling update model, so Part 2 includes the Part 1 content, ...

One of the things I've done with MindManager is write software requirements as Use Case behavior descriptions.  Since I wanted to generate another post about creating Map document Notes tables from Topics, it makes some sense to write a Use Case describing what this MindManager MakeTable macro should do. This is an example of step ...

This is a MindManager template for creating a Use Case.  The template carries predefined topics and usage descriptions for Discussion, Additional Requirements, Pre-Conditions, Flow Steps (Basic, Alternative and Exception), Post-Conditions, Extension Points and Scenariosm sections.  A discussion of its use can be found in an attachment to ...

A requirement map part for requirements gathering.

A map template for software requirements gathering.  

Part 1 - Help Authoring Part 2 - Requirements Gathering One of the unintended consequences of using MindManager throughout Mindjet's internal software development lifecycle is that the product has turned out to be a great requirements gathering solution.  At Mindjet, we use MindManager for developing marketing requirements, organizing ...

If you are developing software on the Microsoft Windows Platforms, you probably are using Microsoft Visual Studio.  One of the features Visual Studio 2005, is a start page that you see whenever you start the application;  On this start page are a number of links to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) website that are applicable to the ...

One thing that I have come to realize is that MindManager is great for all aspects of the software development process.  Now that's easy for me to say, I get paid to evangelize MindManager. So, to that end, I would like to start a series of blog posts about MindManager for Software Development so that you can see for yourself ...