The Office of Management and Budget has issued a memo for
chief information officers containing additional guidance
on what it looks for to assess agencies’ performance on
the e-government portion of the president’s management
agenda.
To get a green rating on OMB’s traffic light-style score
card, agency performance cannot vary from cost, schedule
and performance goals by more than ten percent. To get a
yellow rating, overruns and shortfalls on all major IT
projects cannot exceed 30 percent of stated goals.
OMB said it would be looking for additional evidence for
the use of “earned value management” in major IT investments,
such as a documented agency policy, established cost,
schedule and performance baselines for affected projects,
and examples of how the agency uses data analysis to make
project management and IT portfolio management decisions.
It also said it would look for evidence that earned value
data and analysis related to the above meet EVMS
guidelines in ANSA/EIA-STD-748, from the electronic
industries alliance.
That evidence should include “contract language or a
project charter — for in-house projects — requiring the
use of EVMS that meets the ANSI/EIA-STD . . . or
independent validation that the EVMS system is ANSI/EIA-STD
compliant,” according to the memo, which can be found at:
