GIS in Bahrain

Paper Summary:

The thesis focuses on an examination of current project management methodologies and practices that may have utility in the effective management of complex GIS projects. Current practices are examined in order to determine the generic processes and tools that are available and the methodologies that have been recommended as useful. As well, the influence of the GIS project life cycle is examined, and the roles and responsibilities of the GIS project manager are addressed in light of project life cycle. A complex GIS municipal project completed in Bahrain is reviewed in order to determine if the principles set forth in the thesis on project management were applied.

Introduction
Uses of GIS in Bahrain
Objectives of the Thesis
Overview of the Thesis
Project Life Cycle
Development of a Strategic Plan
Assess Phase
Define Phase
Design Phase
Build Phase
Deliver Phase
Maintain Phase
Project Management
Overview of Project Management

From the Paper:

"It is not an exaggeration to say that Geographical Information Systems as a method of information gathering and information processing is probably the most important and influential methodological and technical development to have occurred in geography and in the ways in which human understand the parameters of the physical world around us over in the past two decades. In Bahrain as elsewhere, GIS systems have helped to unify the ways in which we see the physical and human elements of the land, thus enabling people to understand the effect of human habitation far more clearly (and in a far more sophisticated way) than ever before."

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