Mind Mapping is something I have blogged quite a lot about and something that I use on a daily basis. The visual representation of your thoughts and ideas really can help in the planning phase and it is a fantastic way to study or learn pretty much any topic.
Well, I had just found a great link on the MindManager website that provides a ready made Mind Map to show you how to use Mind Mapping as a project dashboard. There are some good links within the Mind Map to further enhance MindManager with third party plugins.
The Mind Map can be downloaded direct from this link or you can go to the MindJet website where I found the Mind Map by following this link.
You do need MindManager to open up the Mind Map but I do recommend Mind Mapping and MindManager to anybody.
A great add-in specially made for maintaining project dashboards is ResultsManager: http://www.gyronix.com/resultmanager.php
They also have a tool to capture ideas into MindManager without having MM open.