Working on GIS Projects Learning Objectives Learn project management methods for GIS Learn how to structure GIS projects Study a solved project Introduction To prepare you for independent project work, this document begins by surveying the basics of project management in the context of GIS. You will learn about project life cycles and project components. After you've learned basic project structure and management, you will review a simple and short, but complete, project. Project Management Projects are challenging. You must define the problem, decide which factors to ignore and which are important, deal with uncertainties (including whether the project outcome will be valuable or not), and carry out the work. Fortunately, the field of project management brings structure to GIS project work. There are entire textbooks and courses devoted to project management, but the few concepts we introduce here will give you a good start on managing GIS projects