Work breakdown structures (WBS) are frequently used by project teams to break the project into smaller, easily identifiable components. The WBS structures used in projects follow strict rules like 100% rule and the mutually exclusive rule, but in general they can be used to breakdown almost any complex task. However coming up with a WBS template from scratch can be a tedious task, which is why we have introduced work breakdown structure templates to speed [...]

Increase productivity, that’s our goal at Creately and it applies to everything. We added some cool features like community browser and shared projects to make diagramming easier and now we are exited to announce user profiles, an easier way to manage your Creately profile. Now you have access to purchase history, plan history, billing history , payment information etc. all in one place. We even let you add cute profile image . Some of the [...]

An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) is a visual representation of different data using conventions that describe how these data are related to each other. For example, the elements writer, novel, and consumer may be described using ER diagrams this way: In the diagram, the elements inside rectangles are called entities while the items inside diamonds denote the relationships between entities. This ER diagram tutorial covers most things related to ER diagram, for quick navigation use [...]

Creately now supports Fogbugz on demand, so you can draw professional looking diagrams quickly and easily in Fogbugz. Thousands of users have used Creately to add charts to their cases and wikis, now you can do the same with a click of a button. Tools to draw diagrams faster Fogbugz on demand can users can use Creately to add various diagram types to their cases and wikis. Some of the features include Support for many [...]

Many people consider class diagrams a bit more complicated to build compared with ER diagrams. While this might be true, this article helps clip some of the complexities of class diagrams in such a way that even non-programmers and less tech-savvy individuals will come to appreciate the usefulness of this modeling approach. In particular, this article explains how to correctly determine and implement the different class diagram relationships that are applicable in object-oriented modeling. Class [...]