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Lowell Ballard

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.

Your Mobile GIS Ecosystem

December 18, 2016November 30, 2015by Lowell Ballard

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.

Categories GIS SoftwareTags mobile, mobile gis, Timmons Group

Your Mobile Portfolio: Make it Your Own

December 18, 2016September 24, 2015by Lowell Ballard

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.

Categories GIS SoftwareTags mobile gis, Timmons Group
The Timmons Group developed this fall foliage mobile GIS application for the Missouri Department of Conservation.

David or Goliath: Establishing Your Mobile GIS Portfolio

December 18, 2016August 24, 2015by Lowell Ballard

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.

Categories GIS Learning
Waterfall versus project management. Figure from LTER.

Defining Waterfall and Agile GIS Project Management Styles

December 18, 2016April 22, 2015by Lowell Ballard

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” … Read more

Categories GIS IndustryTags agile, project managementw, waterfall

Focusing GIS Apps on the User’s Needs

August 27, 2020December 2, 2014by Lowell Ballard

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, … Read more

Categories GIS SoftwareTags property mapping

Best Practices for Successful GIS Data Management

October 3, 2014by Lowell Ballard

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 … Read more

Categories GIS DataTags GIS data management
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