Project Management for Geographic Information System (GIS) Professionals
December 3-4, 2020 | Online :: Central Time
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Overview
This seminar will explore the keys and speedbumps in order to successfully implement a Geographic Information System solution at your company. This can be a full system replacement, upgrade, or a smaller project such as integrations and version upgrades. This will highlight core Project Management principles but with a specific GIS focus, which will result in the participants leaving with an enhanced understanding of project management from justifying the project to celebrating the results.
Learning Outcomes
- Justify what’s encompassed in a GIS project and what drives the initiative
- Discuss how to establish a team and set the scope of the project
- Gauge how to receive executive approval efficiently to start a project, as well as the methods on how to staff the project
- Review vendor selection, management oversight, and project execution and principles
- Recognize how to communicate effectively with your staff and how to handle the inevitable issues that are presented
- Review how to close a project and how to implement sustainment practices
Credits
EUCI has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). In obtaining this accreditation, EUCI has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard which is recognized internationally as a standard of good practice. As a result of their Authorized Provider status, EUCI is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standard.
EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer 1.0 CEUs for this event.
Requirements for Successful Completion of Program
Participants must log in each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit.
Instructional Methods
PowerPoint presentations, interactive group exercise, and group discussion will be used during this course.
Agenda
Thursday, December 3, 2020 : Central Time
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. :: Log In
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. :: Course Timing
12:30 – 1:15 p.m. :: Lunch Break
Introductions
- Have participants do a self-introduction and share their GIS Project status if they have one (i.e. proposed, in flight, under consideration)
Session Goals & Deliverables
- Review goals and deliverables to better equip the attendees to undertake a GIS-specific project
Justifying a GIS Project
- What makes up the justification
- Is it driven by an IT need, a business need, or a Regulatory need?
Establishing a GIS Project Leadership Team
- Engaging the project leadership team
- Establishing a team structure
- Different facets and structure for different phases of the project
Setting the Scope
- Identify specific scope of the project to establish accountabilities, set budgets, identify project team needs, and prepare for vendor selection
- Software
- Data conversion
- Implementation style
- Software integrations
- Establish a high-level employee impact map for future use in Communication and Change Management
What about the Regulatory Body?
- Checking in with the Regulatory body from a project or rate case perspective
Go Forward Approval
- Keys to getting Executive approval for the GIS Project
Staffing the Project
- How will the project be staffed?
- Approaches and the benefits and risks of the different approaches
Project Kick-off
- Initializing the project and key steps in gaining employee acceptance and establishing team chemistry
Vendor Selection
- Establishing what is needed from the vendor
- How will the vendor be selected and who will the vendor selection decision rest with?
Management Oversight
- What management oversight looks like
- How project results, deliverables, and issues are shared with the management group
Project Execution and Principles
Friday, December 4, 2020 : Central Time
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. :: Log In
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. :: Course Timing
Communication
- Who, what, when, how, and how often communications are delivered
- Consider the core impacted group as well as an extended group and the company
Change Management
- Identifying all stakeholders and knowing their connection to the new system
- How to manage the charge for this group of employees
- High, medium, and low impacted employees to be identified and strategies to manage the change for them
- Change management and productivity curve
Dealing with the Inevitable Catastrophes
Celebrating Successes
- Ensuring you celebrate successes and who to include
- Benefits of these recognitions
Implementation
- How to implement and who will implement
- Ongoing items to manage
- How users will be trained and who will train them
Project Closure & Sustainment
- What’s required from your company to close the project
- Lessons learned, sessions, executive report, and establishing a sustainment organization
Wrap Up
Instructor
Chuck Legg, Professional Engineer, Province of Ontario
Chuck’s career spanned 37 years in the natural gas industry at a natural gas storage, transmission and distribution company in Ontario, Canada. His experience included various Engineering, Operations, and GIS roles within the Utility, and he was the Project Lead for a corporate-wide GIS Replacement Program and subsequently managed the Corporate GIS system. His experience also includes field operations, engineering design, system planning, and engineering standards.
During his career he also spent time mentoring and training new Engineers. He was also involved in various industry committees and organizations and presented at industry conferences during his career. Chuck graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and a current member of GITA.
Online Delivery
We will be using Microsoft Teams to facilitate your participation in the upcoming event. You do not need to have an existing Teams account in order to participate in the broadcast – the course will play in your browser and you will have the option of using a microphone to speak with the room and ask questions, or type any questions in via the chat window and our on-site representative will relay your question to the instructor.
- You will receive a meeting invitation will include a link to join the meeting.
- Separate meeting invitations will be sent for the morning and afternoon sessions of the course.
- You will need to join the appropriate meeting at the appropriate time.
- If you are using a microphone, please ensure that it is muted until such time as you need to ask a question.
- The remote meeting connection will be open approximately 30 minutes before the start of the course. We encourage you to connect as early as possible in case you experience any unforeseen problems.
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If you are unable to attend at the scheduled date and time, we make recordings available to all registrants for three business days after the event
| Event | Standard Rate | Attendees | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Connection - Project Management for Geographic Information System (GIS) Professionals | US $ 1195.00 | ||
| Pack of 5 connections | US $ 4,780.00 | ||
| Pack of 10 Connections | US $ 8,365.00 | ||
| Pack of 20 Connections | US $ 14,340.00 | ||
| Call us at 303.770.8800 if you have any specific questions on the volume discounts | |||
| * all other discounts do not apply to license packs | |||
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Cancellation Policy
Your registration may be transferred to a member of your organization up to 24 hours in advance of the event. Cancellations must be received on or before October 30, 2020 in order to be refunded and will be subject to a US $195.00 processing fee per registrant. No refunds will be made after this date. Cancellations received after this date will create a credit of the tuition (less processing fee) good toward any other EUCI event. This credit will be good for six months from the cancellation date. In the event of non-attendance, all registration fees will be forfeited. In case of conference cancellation, EUCIs liability is limited to refund of the event registration fee only. For more information regarding administrative policies, such as complaints and refunds, please contact our offices at 303-770-8800
