Storm the Brain

Brainstorm to get ideas. Evolve to model elements with traceability.

Enterprise

Brainstorm ideas, realize to design

Put your ideas down on notes and stick them on a board. Play around with them as prep work for drawing business process diagrams. Optionally generate model elements from those notes and add to your business process diagrams.

Mind mapping

Mind mapping is a brainstorming tool available for any purpose. Mind mapping aid organization of ideas, concepts, words, task... It sometimes helps to capture requirements and business process, too. Smart Development Environment for NetBeans provides an easy-to-use mind mapping diagram for organizing ideas. Modeler may create and link model element (such as task, use case, classes) with mind mapping node. The traceability can be kept between initial idea (mind mapping node) and detail design elements (e.g. class).