What is TAMIS | Why
use TAMIS | Variations
TAMIS, DAI’s Technical and Administrative Management Information
System, is a tool to assist our project managers worldwide to meet complex information
management and monitoring needs.
Most development projects require multi-office interactions, multilayered monitoring
and evaluation and collaborative planning and information sharing among partners.
Without sound and efficient information management, these requirements can easily
become burdensome and take the focus away from critical activities.
TAMIS integrates workplan management, impact and performance monitoring, and
project administration into an easy-to-use information system. In its most common
form, TAMIS focuses on the tasks and activities in a development project’s
annual workplan. In addition to specifying and tracking timing and resource
allocation, TAMIS compiles, sorts, and distributes information pertinent to
each task. In this way, it assists project managers in tracking progress and
coordinating the efforts of their team.
A tremendous advantage of TAMIS for projects operating with teams in multiple
locations is that the tracking and reporting requirements can become a shared
responsibility. Because everyone on the team taps into a central database and
uses it in day-to-day management, as data are entered in one location, they are
automatically aggregated with data from all locations. This reduces what can
be a very heavy burden on management staff. While our project directors have
ultimate responsibility for monitoring the results of a project, with TAMIS
they have a management system at their fingertips to assist them in this effort.
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