Details a practical method for planning a GIS that has been proven successful time and again during many years of use in real public- and private-sector organization. It is a scalable approach, the methodology can be adapted to any size GIS, from a modest project to an enterprise-wide system, and one that can be reiterated as a GIS project grows over time. -- From the introduction.

Accompanying disc includes examples & templates, exercises, web links to GIS dictionary, and tests ; and video of the "Planning and managing GIS" seminar from the 2012 Esri International User Conference.