Monday, March 2, 2009

Evaluating An As-Built Foundation For A House

Here I present an image of the MindMap that I have developed for my services as an expert witness as the dispute between the home-owner and the contractor has landed in the court.

So, click on the image to look at the actual (interactive) MindMap.



I find that MindMapping helps me do brain-storming, penning down all the thoughts and concepts that come to mind and then organize, prioritize, levelize, and sequence the topics.

Then I can add notes, links, attachments, images, and so on to the related topics. I can expand the discussion on a particular topic by adding subtopics, and then expand or collapse the subtopic discussion depending on where my focus is at a given point in time.

MindMap helps me in keeping the overall perspective even while looking at a detail contained in a subtopic, an attachment, an image, or a hyperlinked site.

How did my expert witness testimony on this project go this morning? -- it went well, and of course it invogorates you when some real sharp attorneys are grilling you to spill all the beans -- did I say that ... Ah Well!

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