Project Management "Storyboarding"; A New Way to Plan?

Sometimes, ideas come from the strangest of places.

A few years ago, while storyboarding a screenplay idea (which I still have waiting in the wings as a future project), I came across a piece of software that I realized could be equally valuable in project management. It's called Writer's Blocks.

It's sort of an electronic version of the "Cards-On-The-Wall" approach used by project managers for network diagram sessions. Since using cards on the wall doesn't work when your team is virtual, this could be an interesting alternative in those cases. It's extremely intuitive and allows you to capture ideas along with notes, move them around in different sections, link them, etc.

Alternatively, it could be used to actually "storyboard" your project, offering much more elaborate text than just a few words on a card. Certainly worth further exploration. I posted this find (along with Mind Manager from www.mindjet.com) on Edward Tufte's forum on information presentation. It's in the project management thread - which has incidentally been running for four years - possibly the longest thread in history.

Meanwhile, here's the link to Writer's Blocks.

Writer's Blocks 3 Writing Software