Lesson Overview
In this module, you be developing methods to evaluate your GIS system through heuristic examinations, focus groups, card sorting, and tabletop exercises. Additionally, you will develop specific heuristic examination methodology based on methods that best suits your geospatial design.
You will also be developing a cost-benefit analysis that outlines the specific monetary costs of developing, implementing, and maintaining your geospatial system. This will require researching the costs of your system as well as understanding the monetary benefits that your proposed geospatial design will provide over the current system in use.
Finally, you will develop a Gantt chart to visualize the timeline for development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance. Usually, a GIS design will require a minimum of 6 months, but depending on the complexity of your system, it may take much more.
Overall, evaluation, cost/benefit, and maintenance are very important components of your project since the stakeholders will be most interested in knowing how much they are requested to fund as well as how long it will take for the final project to be beta tested.
Objectives
At the successful completion of this lesson, students should be able to:
- Develop and describe the heuristic evaluation methods that will be implemented for usability testing
- Develop a table outlining the monetary costs and benefits the geospatial design
- Describe and justify the costs, including why they are necessary for the final geospatial output
- Create a Gantt chart showing the timeline for all the tasks within the development, implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of the geospatial design.
Step | Activity | Direction |
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1 | Work through Module 7 | You are in the Lesson 7 online content right now. Be sure to carefully read through the online lesson material. |
2 | Assignment |
Complete the Assignment:
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3 | Technology Discussion | Complete the ESRI Academy Deep Learning Training |