Out of necessity, we've been maintaining a hybrid workspace for the last few years, where we use both ArcMap and Pro as appropriate. Right now, we've still got our core data in the Geometric Network, which can only be edited in ArcMap. We'll be moving to 100% Pro as soon as we're done moving from the Geometric Network to the Utility Network. Our core editing workflows have stayed the same for now, so the users were able to get most of the day-to-day editing done in a familiar environment. However, I've been making sure that we do any editing of one-off datasets and non-network datasets in Pro, as well as doing 90% of our publishing and static map production from Pro. This makes it so our users don't need to be 100% up to speed before they start using Pro, but can instead take their time getting comfortable. For some of our users, we did start them off with Esri's learning plan, which definitely shortened the learning curve. Also, giving users a dev dataset to edit will give them more freedom to make mistakes without screwing up your core data. Long story short, most of our users are ready to go once it's time to make the switch, even though we're still doing most of our editing work in ArcMap. Starting from the beginning with someone who isn't familiar with Pro, I think you could have them quite comfortable with Pro and ready to leave ArcMap behind in a few weeks to a few months, depending on their individual personalities and how fast you want to push it.

The other thing to note (and you may have already started digging into this) is that you'll need to update any Python scripts to work with Pro. There are a lot of little things (print("text") instead of print "text", float division by default, bankers rounding) and big things (new build geocoder tools, arcpy.mp instead of arcpy.mapping) that can do anything from crash your scripts to change the expected output. This takes a lot more time than learning the interface, IMO.

Jay

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Enjoy the ride! Depending on how afraid of change they are, switching from Map to Pro can actually be fairly easy. I embrace change and look forward to trying new things so, after watching the intro courses on my esri training I was able to be up and running (wobbly but running J) in about a week or two. The hardest part is learning some of the new terminology (i.e.: panes vs views, atlas vs data driven, etc…). If you use in-house training from ESRI that time may be shortened a bit. My users in RPS are not quite as gung-ho as I am but with an in-person training session from ESRI they are able to wobble around in there, although they are still getting used to it. It’s slow though. Could be because their training had more to do with parcel fabric then arcpro usage though. I assigned them the intro training for ArcGIS Pro but short staff needs didn’t allow them to tackle it beforehand.

My best suggestion, make sure to do the transition during a slower period for your end users. Because of circumstance we were forced into a time crunch to get it done before taxable status season and it’s been a bit harder for all of us because of it.

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Hi all,

We need to train our technicians and convert from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro, and I’m wondering how much time to budget. If you have gone through this process, how much time did you spend on training between introduction and “flipping the switch”?

Our techs are skilled ArcMap users but generally have not had exposure to Pro (I have been using it for a while.) I’m thinking we will be using a combination of online tutorials from Esri and in-house, in-person training.

Thanks for any insight,

Andy

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