About this Course
This course focuses on GIS project planning, design and implementation. You'll learn professional methods and principles used in planning, funding, implementing and maintaining GIS analysis tools, applications, databases and entire GIS systems. We'll introduce examples of GIS projects, large and small, to illustrate structured approaches to both database and software development projects.
What You'll Learn
- Principles and benefits of applying project management to GIS projects
- How to follow a structured and repeatable approach to GIS project management, including a framework for assessing and mitigating risk in GIS projects
- How to develop professional-level project deliverables and artifacts
- Collaboration and teamwork skills for completing a GIS project
- How to leverage GIS community resources to solve practical problems encountered in the practice of GIS