Ideas for Screen Map in Visio?

[Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>]

I'm using Visio to make a map of all the screens in a software 
application. The images are scaled down but (just) readable, and show 
the links between screens, tabs within screens, links to external 
applications, and so on.

This project has parallel development streams so there are people and 
teams working on overlapping parts of the application. The map will be 
used by the developers, designers, system architects, BAs, user reps, 
testers, etc. The plan is to have a printed version on several A0 sheets 
stuck up on the wall of a 'war room', and perhaps an online version in 
Sharepoint.

For now the map is just a static display of how each screen looks in the 
latest version. It could be nice to have some metadata for each screen 
and perhaps links to each unique version of the screen in different 
releases--e.g. how it looked when it was first added in R6, the updated 
version in R8 and the latest prototype planned for R10.


Do you have any other ideas for useful information or functions I could 
add to the map? Of course I'm asking the people who'll be using it, but 
I wanted to get your suggestions too. I know some of you have done 
'active diagrams' like this.

Thanks, Stuart
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