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Week 1: Strategic Planning through Asset Management

Learning Outcomes:

  • List the 5 core questions that need to be addressed by the strategic implementation of GIS asset management programs.
  • Identify at least 4 main differences in the management of assets of different infrastructure industries.
  • In one short sentence, describe the purpose of infrastructure asset management programs.

Topics:

  • Strategic implementation goals of GIS asset management programs
  • Key differences between GIS asset management industries
  • Purpose and goals of asset management and GIS applications

Week 2: Benefits of GIS Asset Management Programs

Learning Outcomes:

  • Evaluate opportunities for operational improvements by identifying at least two benefits of the application of GIS within asset management.
  • Analyze asset management programs using three key life-cycle principles.
  • Identify two core parts of a basic and an advanced GIS asset management program.

Topics:

  • Planning applications of GIS within asset management
  • Principles of asset management life-cycles
  • Basic and advanced frameworks of GIS asset management programs

Week 3: The Need for Infrastructure Asset Data

Learning Outcomes:

  • Use asset data to improve operations of infrastructure networks in at least three different opportunities.
  • Describe the 5 strategies that are used to identify overall agency asset management goals.
  • Evaluate an agency’s asset management status by reviewing the four objectives of a GIS assessment.

Topics:

  • Using asset data to manage infrastructure networks
  • Identifying agency goals and objectives
  • Determining the status of asset management agencies

Week 4: Different Perspectives for GIS Asset Management Needs and Outcomes

Learning Outcomes:

  • Create an implementation plan for GIS asset management programs using at least three desired outcomes.
  • From an outside stakeholder perspective, list three objectives of a GIS asset management program.
  • Evaluate a GIS asset management program by describing at least three goals from an inside perspective.

Topics:

  • Fundamental goals of GIS asset management programs
  • Outside perspective: desired objectives for a GIS asset management program from external stakeholders
  • Internal perspective: internal agency emphasis on goals for a GIS asset management program

Week 5: Integrating the GIS Asset Management Program within the Agency Culture

Learning Outcomes:

  • Communicate change effectively by following four principal objectives.
  • List at least three steps that help in building commitments for a new GIS asset management program.
  • Given a specific goal for a GIS asset management program identify an applicable performance measure.

Topics:

  • Communicating change across the asset management agency
  • Gaining commitment for the GIS asset management program
  • Encourage participation through rewarding success

Week 6: Integrating the GIS Asset Management Program within Current Business Processes

Learning Outcomes:

  • Evaluate day-to-day business processes within asset management to determine at least two reasons for efficiency improvements by using GIS.
  • Develop at least two strategies for linking GIS asset management program activities to general operational processes within asset management agencies.
  • Identify four opportunities within asset management agencies for the implementation of communication channels to support the development of GIS programs.

Topics:

  • Linking GIS asset management programs and agency processes
  • Operational objectives of agencies and their GIS asset management programs
  • Develop formal and informal communication channels

Week 7: Developing a GIS Project Management Team

Learning Outcomes:

  • Create GIS asset management projects that consider at least four primary stakeholders.
  • Improve the results of GIS asset management project teams by focusing in five process groups.
  • Recognize six of the nine project management knowledge areas within GIS asset management.

Topics:

  • Application of the project management body of knowledge for a GIS asset management implementation program
  • GIS asset management project teams and process groups
  • Knowledge areas within GIS asset management implementation projects

Week 8: Tools and Techniques for the Management of GIS Asset Management Projects

Learning Outcomes:

  • Improve the management of GIS projects by using at least two scheduling tools with identifiable benefits.
  • Given a Computer Aided Design (CAD) file, select the appropriate methodology to import the CAD data into a GIS asset management program.
  • Identify the three common steps for the development of custom applications for GIS asset management programs.

Topics:

  • Scheduling and resource management for GIS projects
  • Adopting Computer Aided Design (CAD) data into GIS programs
  • Basic frameworks for developing GIS asset management applications

Week 9: Requirements for Collecting GIS Data

Learning Outcomes:

  • Improve the procurement of data collection contractors by employing the five requirements used by the Federal Aviation Authority.
  • Define the concept and use of a GEOID model.
  • Develop GIS asset management programs that use photographs by using three industry best practices.

Topics:

  • Requirements for data collection contractors
  • Ensuring proper use of horizontal and vertical control
  • Implementing digital images within GIS asset management programs

Week 10: Geometric Requirements of Asset Management Data

Learning Outcomes:

  • Maintain the topological integrity of GIS features by following two core requirements.
  • List the three main levels of metadata applicable to GIS asset management projects.
  • Improve the interconnectivity between GIS and CAD platforms by building upon their one major common principle.

Topics:

  • Topological integrity of GIS asset management data
  • Metadata practices for GIS asset management projects
  • Relating Computer Aided Design (CAD) layers to GIS features

Week 11: Data Sources for GIS Asset Management Programs

Learning Outcomes:

  • Improve the capture of asset data by using the advantages of data mining and avoiding its common disadvantages.
  • Describe three major concerns of using manual data collection methods for capturing asset data.
  • Select the best method (out of two technologies) for mapping data through mobile imaging methods for specific GIS projects.

Topics:

  • Data mining
  • Manual data collection
  • Mobile ground and aerial based imaging

Week 12: Establishing Performance Measurements for GIS Asset Management Programs

Learning Outcomes:

  • Create GIS asset management programs that can be reviewed by using at least six data performance measures.
  • Describe in one short paragraph at least two of the six performance measures used to evaluate GIS asset management programs.
  • Ensure the application of data quality performance measures by using at least three best industry practices.

Topics:

  • Using performance measures as data quality tools
  • The six performance measures used in GIS asset management programs
  • Implementing performance measures within agency business practices

This course outline is subject to change.

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