Which tools you use in the initial brain-storming of the project requirements? [closed]
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19-08-2019 - |
Question
Other than pencil & paper? I found freemind, the mapping tool very useful. Any other ideas?
Solution
Personally I like physical paper notebooks and pencils to workout ideas :-), but some times I use FreeMind.
Check this list of Mind Mapping Software.
OTHER TIPS
Post-It notes
Whiteboard and decent coloured pens
Walls to pin the notes on to
Digital camera to capture all the work
The book Domain Driven Design :)
I find this (FreeMind) an excellent way to capture structured unstructured thoughts. Great for brainstorming, although it doesnt cover the diagram side.
Usualy we use writeboard. Personaly - pencil & paper. And one of most comfortable tools what I'm using for taking notes, making todo and other lists is VIM Outliner. If you don't use VIM, I believe you can find any other comfortable outliner.
A whiteboard and a camera to capture what's on the whiteboard quickly, to be able to move on to the next thing.
In all seriousness, when other people are involved, a whiteboard. Later Microsoft Visio to formalize the drawings from the discussion. A former Design Director for a competitor who now works for our company routinely captures an audio recording of conferences - he uses it for his own benefit; he doesn't use it to call people out.
GoVisual is very nice free diagramming software.
Mind mapping is really useful for this purposes. When you have distributed team, you may wan to use web-based mind mapping applications. I'm using Mindomo to share initial (and not only) requirements documentation with the rest of requirements management and development team.
Also I quite often use draw&scan approach to capture and share ideas, comments, schemes, etc. Often it works much better than writing a plain e-mail or doc.