Discusses the need to analyze and develop concepts of effective data handling when new systems projects are in their initial stages of development. For one such project -- TIES -- the author examines several of these concepts within the framework of the technical capability available and the need of the user. The developmental processes and the…

PMIS is a computer-based planning and management information system for local school districts. This report centers on the PMIS data bases that contain school system data by reviewing the major phases involved in their creation, explaining the factors that caused the unique orientation of the data bases, reviewing the two tasks that comprise the…