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Business Analysis and
Requirements Gathering Within
An Enterprise
Christianna Kretschmann
Pinellas County, Florida
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Outline
• Pinellas County, Florida Background
• Enterprise GIS Within Pinellas County
• eGIS Goals and Timeline
• eGIS Steering Committee vs. eGISWorking Group
• Project Prioritization
• Requirements Gathering
• Challenges and Successes
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Pinellas County Snapshot• Population just under 1M
• Part of the Tampa Bay region
• Peninsula bordered on three
sides by water!
• 24 Municipalities
Most densely populated
county based on people
per square mile
Pinellas: 3,347 person per
square mile/929,048 total
population
Miami-Dade: 1,315 person
per square mile/2,617,176
total population (US Census 2013 estimates)
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Purpose of an Enterprise GIS for
Pinellas County
• Large GIS user community
• Layoffs compromised key GIS positions and expertise
• Urgent replacement of unsupported legacy GIS system
• Make Pinellas County more efficient by eliminating redundancy supporting 2 GIS systems
• Move to Esri GIS platform and stay current
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Goals
• Enable Transformation – migrate from
legacy system to entirely Esri based
platform
• Follow COTS philosophy to create new
apps quickly
Current State
Transition State
Document Legacy
Applications & Processes
Migrate Data, Training,
Establish New Processes
COTS Philosophy to Create Apps Quickly on Esri Based Platform
Future State
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Timeline of eGIS Formation
• eGIS Steering Committee inaugural
meeting July 29, 2010
• April 2011 – 2 GIS developers hired
• July 2011 – eGIS Bureau formed with 5
analysts
• April 2012 – $1.8M Esri Enterprise License
Agreement approved
• October 2012 – eGIS Working Group
formed
– Release process established
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eGIS Working Group•Every Day Experts and users of GIS from across the
County and Eligible Agencies•Makes recommendations to Steering Committee
eGIS Steering Committee
• Director level management
• Empowered to make decisions
eGIS Team•GIS Analysts and Developers
•Suggests release options for Working Group to choose from
•Estimates effort for each option
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Project Prioritization
• eGIS Working Group determines priority of
new and existing projects
• Each project is discussed and estimated
within the eGIS Team based on availability
• After estimates are completed, a list of
possible projects is compiled and
presented for approval by the eGIS
Steering Committee
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Gathering Enterprise Requirements
• Stakeholder meetings to document legacy
applications
– Internal eGIS requirements gathering team
– eGIS Team determined which legacy applications
continue to be utilized within Pinellas County
– eGIS Team solicited input from impacted
departments
– Documented business processes, workflows,
other related data, tools and procedures, basic
application functionality
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Evolution of Requirements Process
• Initial approach included large format stakeholder meetings approving SDLC steps – Design, Build, Test
• Iterative process now includes several meetings with individual stakeholder groups to discuss evolving requirements
• As Design step unfolds, bring stakeholders into the testing process to discover changes or improvements
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Challenges
• Stakeholder engagement and responseo Application functionality may not be known or
conveyed appropriately
• Dependency confusiono Large number of unknown background scripts,
applications, etc.
• Internal department disorganizationo Key staff departures
o Internal reorganization
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Successes
• Increased stakeholder confidence and
support
• Executive Leadership support
• COTS approach enabled quick turnaround
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Pinellas County Case Study