The role of Visio

Although it is considered part of the Microsoft Office Suite, it is actually delivered separately, and it's now part of Office 365 (online). As the company puts it, Visio's lemma is Complexity made simple, and it lets you build all sort of diagrams, which can even update dynamically (as the original data changes), covering hundreds of possible diagramming scenarios.

You can also use it in conjunction with Microsoft Project and other related tools, and its capability to import and incorporate external information makes it a perfect solution to integrate data from other sources and convert it into a useful diagram:

A first example

Let's imagine that we already have the list of participants in our Team Model. We have discussed which role is competent for each member with them, and this information is written in an Excel sheet, indicating name, role, and photo for every member of the team. Each of the six roles has been assigned to a different person, as defined in the Team Model...