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    GIS Project Management GIS Project Management: Needs Assessment Needs Assessment

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    A needs assessment is used to document how an organization uses information and evaluate existing systems and future needs. It identifies key components of the target organization including data input/output, output products, procedures, applications used, and users. An effective needs assessment inventorys what the organization does and how prepared it is for GIS work by considering outcomes, staff skills, budget, and timing of changes. It assesses staffing, computing capacity, and reviews how GIS could be useful before prioritizing key functions and making recommendations.

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    A needs assessment is used to document how an organization uses information and evaluate existing systems and future needs. It identifies key components of the target organization including data input/output, output products, procedures, applications used, and users. An effective needs assessment inventorys what the organization does and how prepared it is for GIS work by considering outcomes, staff skills, budget, and timing of changes. It assesses staffing, computing capacity, and reviews how GIS could be useful before prioritizing key functions and making recommendations.

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    A needs assessment is used to document how an organization uses information and evaluate existing systems and future needs. It identifies key components of the target organization including data input/output, output products, procedures, applications used, and users. An effective needs assessment inventorys what the organization does and how prepared it is for GIS work by considering outcomes, staff skills, budget, and timing of changes. It assesses staffing, computing capacity, and reviews how GIS could be useful before prioritizing key functions and making recommendations.

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    A needs assessment is used to document how an organization uses information and evaluate existing systems and future needs. It identifies key components of the target organization including data input/output, output products, procedures, applications used, and users. An effective needs assessment inventorys what the organization does and how prepared it is for GIS work by considering outcomes, staff skills, budget, and timing of changes. It assesses staffing, computing capacity, and reviews how GIS could be useful before prioritizing key functions and making recommendations.

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    End users

    GIS project management


    Needs assessment
    Bela Markus
    markusbela@gmail.com

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    Bela Markus: GIS project management, MPG, University of Prishtina, 2016

    GIS project planning Needs assessment


    Project idea Project proposal Approval • A needs assessment, or the process of developing
    system requirements, is generally developed by
    documenting the ways in which an organization uses
    information. It is the evaluation of existing systems
    Educate managers Needs assessment Detailed plan Approval
    and their capabilities to perform future processing
    needs.
    • Identify these components of target organization:
    Functional
    Tendering Benchmark Approval • Data Input & Output
    requirements
    • Output Products
    • Procedures & Policies
    • Applications Used
    Detailed design Pilot project Refinement Training
    Database
    conversion
    • Users

    GIS Trial phase Test data


    http://lagic.lsu.edu/gisprimer/strat_need.asp#func_chart

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    Bela Markus: GIS project design - LFM, Kazakh National University, 2014 Bela Markus: GIS project management, MPG, University of Prishtina, 2016

    End user needs analysis Key questions


    Information-centred approach
    • What do we do that can be helped by GIS, and
    • How prepared are we to undertake that work?

    • Inventorying what you do (or want to do) is best


    approached by looking at the outcomes you work to create:
    the scale and type of data, the extent and nature of maps,
    the degree of public education, and how they administer the
    work as an organization.
    • How prepared the organization is to do work has to do with
    the skills of the staff and consultants they have, the overall
    approach of the organization to technology and organized
    data, their budget, and the broad timing of introducing any
    significant changes into the organization.

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    Bela Markus: GIS project management, MPG, University of Prishtina, 2016 Bela Markus: GIS project management, MPG, University of Prishtina, 2016

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    Products > services Products > services

    7 8
    Bela Markus: GI project initiation, Kazakh National University, 2014 Bela Markus: GI project initiation, Kazakh National University, 2014

    Content of a simple needs assessment


    • Summary - A short summary that boils down your entire assessment.
    • Context - Description of the context of the organization - where are they now in overall
    efforts, and what their history is with GIS and computer technology.
    • Project Functions - An evaluation of each of the major functions of your project,
    describing the present situation, its near-term needs (next six months to one year) and
    long-term needs (more than a year). This evaluation is not yet about GIS, but focuses
    on what the project want to do.
    • Existing Capacity and Technology – An assessment of staffing and computing
    capacity in the organization, generally and in relation to GIS.
    • GIS Options - A review of what role GIS could play in the organization. This is not a
    plan for GIS, but an imagining of how it could be useful.
    • GIS Priorities - Based on discussion of options, the top functions should be called out,
    including indications about how these priorities relate to your capacities.
    • Recommendations and Next Steps – Based on agreements reached in the above
    process, the steps and schedule that will be followed to design and implement a GIS.

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    Bela Markus: GIS project management, MPG, University of Prishtina, 2016

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