OMB is requiring that each agency take the following actions to drive its PortfolioStat IT review initiative:
Designate a lead for the initiative; complete a high-level IT portfolio survey using the Max collection tool, due by May 31; establish a commodity IT investment baseline; submit a draft plan to consolidate commodity IT to OMB by June 29; hold a first PortfolioStat session by July 31; submit a final plan to consolidate commodity IT by August 31; migrate at least two duplicative commodities IT services; and, document and catalog successes, challenges and lessons learned from this process into a document to be submitted to OMB by February 1.
OMB is looking to the PolifolioStat process as way to inform the budget process and helpagency COOs eliminate waste and duplication within the IT portfolio – with a specific focus falling on reducing duplication within commodity IT by shifting to intra-and inter-agency shared services.
