The Mindjet Labs

It's been a few weeks since my last post.  Somehow time just passes when you're not looking.  There's a John Lennon quote for this - “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”  Or working on other problems. I'm somewhat disappointed in the dearth of comments on the Six ...

Two of six elements of greatness remain in this series of software platform blog posts. These are the topics of Balance and Hierarchy. Balance? Like On One Foot? With respect to a software platform, balance speaks less to the notion of equality and more to the relationships among different behaviors of the platform.  Not every aspect of a ...

What are the essential characteristics of a great software solutions platform?  A previous post in this blog talked about variation and evolution as two of six elements. In dealing with software platforms, variation is how the major themes of the platform emerge.  Related but different, evolution pertains to both how we understand the ...

If we think of the Six Elements of Greatness post as a general discussion of cooking, how do the ingredients come together to make a meal?   If we put the words unity and theme into the pot, pour in a generous portion of  MindManager, and stir gently over a low heat, the idea of a MindMap Document quickly bobs to the top.  ...

So What's a Platform? The notion of a platform, and more specifically, a software platform, was introduced in a previous post. We can pick up that thread and attempt to deconstruct the idea of a software platform into a collection of general characteristics. Having some sense of what is good behavior for a platform, we can then look at ...

The word "platform" is somewhat overloaded.  The term exists in many contexts; some physical, others virtual. But all usages seem to share a few characteristics, however distantly.  So what's a platform, are software platforms good, and what makes a good platform? More to the point, is MindManager a good software ...