IDG Contributor Network: Is mind mapping a legitimate project management tool?

Mind mapping. Wikipedia defines a mind map as “a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank landscape page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those.” It further states that “it has been suggested that mind mapping can improve le