Anyone have any experience with Idea Mapping?

My boss’ new kick is now Idea Mapping. He thinks it will improve our productivity.

I doubt it, but the idea is interesting enough that I’ll play with it.

Do you have any experience with it? Can you recommend any good books on it? Is there any other good training materials?

It went through a minor vogue in our shop a couple years back.

I think there was some worthwhile thought in the process, but if pamphlets sold for $50 nobody would have fluffed it up into a book. Worthwhile thoughts really are nice, and really don’t create revolutions.

Maybe there are conference room minicourses that actually will revolutionize human productivity, but I think if one came along, word would travel pretty fast.

I downloaded a free software for idea mapping a while back, but it just looked kind of silly to me.