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I believe one of the most damaging design flaws in the Federal Government is the inability of Agencies / Departments or Programs to retain or return funds at the end of the fiscal without having their budget shrink by that amount in the following year.
For example if I am a Government PM and I have a $5M surplus at the end of the fiscal year and I return this "savings" to the Treasury or Department, etc. My budget will be reduced by $5M the following year. This encourages frantic end of the year spending and the continuation of projects better off killed or delayed.
A common case in point, computer hardware is purchased at the end of the Government's fiscal year that will not be used until the middle of the next year or funds are added to an additional contract year (regardless of contractor performance) to "protect" the Agency, Department or Program's budget.
Posted by John Sikking on May 28, 2008 - 06:19 AM
The Flaw: A personnel system that offers no reward for risk, therby guaranteeing that the answer to every question is "NO". "Yes" could get you in trouble if you don't use good judgement. "No" protects the status quo...it's safe.
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One of the Grand Challenges facing government is that it runs on politics rather than performance ... and the powers-that-be prefer as much, because it serves their interests. However, that is not the primary point I'd like to make, which is that even to the degree that rhetoric is spewed about performance management and "strategic alignment," rarely are such concepts effectively applied. Thus, the grand challenge is to make those concepts "real" rather than merely rhetorical. Hopefully, Strategy Markup Language (StratML) will make a contribution toward that end. For more information on StratML, see http://xml.gov/stratml/index.htm & http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?ID=34121
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