MindPlan Review:
Very helpful in many ways
By Jens Polster
at SP Integration GmbH
Rating: 5 out of 5.
We are using MindPlan at my company now for several years. At first we have been using it only as a replacement for MindManager because it allowed us to work on mindmaps collaboratively. Because MindPlan stores all its data in Notes databases, we can easily work on a mindmap together on a server and we can also simply work offline with a local replica of the MindPlan database.
MindPlan is also perfectly suited for project management. For me it is the best tool for planning an application or preparing a cost estimate for a project because I can specify planned and actual duration and cost for work packages and activities and get the sum calculated for each branch up to the root node.
In addition MindPlan also displays the data in a Gantt chart with many pre-existing reports (e.g. resources, utilization) and the option to create custom reports.
Again because Notes is used as the data store, I can easily allow project members to maintain the nodes with their activities (edit status, progress etc.) without giving them write access to other nodes.