President's Management Agenda
 The
Announcement
In August 2001, President Bush's Office of Management and Budget announced
the President's Management Agenda. This agenda included five government-wide
management reforms that the Administration has made a high priority:
1. Strategic Management of Human Capital
2. Competitive Sourcing
3. Improved Financial Performance
4. Expanded Electronic Government
5. Budget and Performance Integration
As described by OMB, this agenda "is an aggressive strategy for
improving the management of the federal government. It focuses on five
areas of management weakness across the government where improvements
and the most progress can be made."
The OMB document explaining the President's Management Agenda(PMA) has
a chapter on each reform describing the problem that presently exists,
the specifics of the reform initiative that is being undertaken, and the
expected results of the management reform.
The Scorecard
On October 30, 2001, the Director of OMB issued a memorandum to the heads
of all executive departments and agencies that made clear the seriousness
with which the Administration is approaching implementation of the President's
Management Agenda. He explained that an Executive Branch Management Scorecard
had been developed, which would be used by OMB to evaluate where each
department and agency stood on September 30, 2001, with respect to compliance
with the Standards for Success contained in the scorecard.
That scorecard contains several core criteria for each of the five reforms,
with a rating of "green" given if an agency meets all of the
criteria for a reform, and a rating of "yellow" for partial
success. For each reform there are also several negative situations listed,
called Conditions. If any one of these conditions exists, then the agency
automatically receives a rating of "red"
on that initiative.
Rating Plans and Progress
OMB also includes a second part to the Scorecard, rating each department
and agency's progress in moving toward full compliance with each reform
on the President's Management Agenda. While an agency might have a score
of "red" for its “Current Status” on a reform, it
could get a "green" for its “Progress in Implementation”
of plans to improve.
The Key Reform
The Budget and Performance Integration initiative is seen by OMB as being
the key, overarching reform of the five items on the President's Management
Agenda. Because of the special importance of this particular item on the
President's Management Agenda, this web site addresses the Budget
and Performance Integration reform more specifically, particularly
by providing detailed information on Performance Budgeting.
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