Refine project goals: What are we trying to achieve?

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Scoping Study Goals and Outcomes

• Refine project goals What are we trying to
  achieve?
• Design a strategy How are we going to achieve
  it?
• Identify problem areas What do we have to watch
  out for?
• Prioritize tasks What is most important for
  success?
• Adjust scope What set of goals is most
  realistic?
• Recommend alternatives How else could we do
  things?
• Allocate resources How do we support our
  efforts?
• Realign expectations How do we communicate any
  adjustments?
• Define milestones How do we know when we're
  done?

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Scoping Study Products

• Logical Model Products, architecture, scope,
  and prototypes
• Project Plan Tasks, role assignments, schedule,
  and milestones
• Budget Estimate Refined cost breakdown
• Recommendations Ideas, best practices, and
  guidelines
• Warm fuzziness all around

3
Scoping Study Some Next Steps

• Explore WMS approach by testing key scenarios
  (IM, Environ)
• Determine how WMS might need to be extended (IM,
  Environ, CIRA)
• Determine GIS/WMS hosting options and
  configurations (All, Tom)
• Map products and functionality to SIP components
  (ARS, CIRA)
• Plan consolidation and organization of spatial
  data (IM, Environ)
• Plan consolidation and organization of raw data
  (CIRA, EDMS, RMC)
• Determine data storage volumes (All)
• Design core hardware and software infrastructure
  (CIRA)
• Design a representative implementation plan for
  key products (CIRA)
• Identify and consolidate issues and
  recommendations (All)

From here on out, Tom Moore is implicitly
included whenever All is used.
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Preliminary GIS Recommendations

• Spatial Data
• Environ creates, manages, and updates
  presentation-quality GIS layers
• GIS Platform
• Image Matter develops core WMS functionality
• CIRA, ARS, and IM identify any desired
  extensions to core WMS
• Image Matters extends WMS interface to include
  advanced functionality
• GIS Hosting
• Scenario 1 Environ hosts a WMS to serve their
  GIS layers in situ ()
• Scenario 2 Image Matters hosts a WMS to serve
  the Environ GIS layers ()
• Scenario 3 CIRA hosts GIS layers and the WMS
  that serves them

Currently recommended approach