Lowell Ballard, Author at GIS Lounge

Lowell Ballard

About the Author

Lowell Ballard is the Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, a leading provider of geospatial solutions and strategic planning services through their GIS RoadMap process. He consults to public and private clients in strategic planning, enterprise architecture, and solutions development. He does this across almost all market sectors including emergency management, utilities and infrastructure, transportation and natural resources and the environment. He can be reached at lowell.ballard@timmons.com.

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GIS Software

Your Mobile GIS Ecosystem

November 30, 2015By Lowell BallardGIS Software

Lowell Ballard discusses the concept of branding your mobile “portfolio” to better create that sense of a unified ecosystem to ensure that clients know that they are using one of your applications.

Your Mobile Portfolio: Make it Your Own

September 24, 2015By Lowell BallardGIS Software

Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, discusses the importance of making users feel like a part of your company’s ecosystem by developing a mobile portfolio.

The Timmons Group developed this fall foliage mobile GIS application for the Missouri Department of Conservation. The application allows users to discover and submit pictures of changing foliage enhancing tourism opportunities, outreach, and education to all residents and visitors.

David or Goliath: Establishing Your Mobile GIS Portfolio

August 24, 2015By Lowell BallardGIS Learning

Lowell Ballard, the Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, discusses the David versus Goliath approach in developing robust and full-featured versus smaller more focused mobile GIS applications.

Waterfall versus project management. Figure from LTER.

Defining Waterfall and Agile GIS Project Management Styles

April 22, 2015By Lowell BallardGIS Industry

Lowell Ballard, the Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, takes a look at effectively engaging clients for GIS projects. In this article, he examines “waterfall” and “agile” in the context of client engagement. All projects need successful communication in order to develop properly and meet clients’ expectations. Keeping clients […]

Focusing GIS Apps on the User’s Needs

December 2, 2014By Lowell BallardGIS Software

Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Technology for Timmons Group, discusses why preventing scope creep is important for creating GIS apps that are focused, easy to use, and easy to understand. The toughest part of building a great application is knowing what to exclude. I spend a lot of time presenting ideas […]

Best Practices for Successful GIS Data Management

October 3, 2014By Lowell BallardGIS Data

Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions for Timmons Group, shares some of his experience on managing GIS data and growing a GIS program. In my twelve years at Timmons Group, an interesting observation in many organizations that we have worked with is how GIS is managed and governed as an asset. Often, organizations […]