Which careers require you to create mind maps (and similar type diagrams)?

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1. You’d thrive as a software architect. Their job is more or less to draw high-level overviews of how components relate and communicate with each other, without having to worry too much about the platform-independant implementations (within reason).

2. Systems engineering

3. UX research, planning and design

   No code automation (Zapier, Make)

   Network / software architecture

4. Product owners. Good PMs do it, too

5. IT Solution Architect does a lot of this, and more. It’s a senior position though.

6. Strategic planner, operational planning, logic modelling

7. Data visualization

8. IT business analysts do this. I am one. :p I see others talking about software/solution architects, which is accurate, but it’s hard to start there. I started as a BA right out of college, doing work with maps/diagrams. Look up use case diagrams, BPMN if you want an idea of some of it. Although depending on my audience I don’t even use any mapping standard – for many business users a technical diagram just confuses them so I use basic flowcharts.

   I think one potential issue is that from org to org the definition of a BA can vary wildly. But that can hopefully be discerned as part of the job search/interview process.