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The Bush administration has used its traffic-light system to rate agency management since 2001. Government Executive has evaluated the president's progress in our Dec. 1 magazine piece Running the Light. Now, we're asking users to rate the agenda.

Use the form below to rate each part of the President's Management Agenda.

Category	Government Executive's grade	Your grades
Human capital		Red Yellow Green
Competitive sourcing		Red Yellow Green
Financial performance/ Lines of business		Red Yellow Green
E-gov		Red Yellow Green
Budget/ Performance integration		Red Yellow Green
Cumulative		Red Yellow Green
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COMMENTS

• I am surprised that Financial Management was also not rated green. Just three weeks ago, all 24 CFO Act agencies submitted audited financial statements 45 days after the fiscal year ended; nineteen had clean opinions from the auditors; the 24 agencies had but 39 material internal control weaknesses, which is down 35% since 2001, and 13 agencies had both a clean audit opinion andf zero material weaknesses; the improper payments have been reduced by billions of dollars and additional agencies have started to identify and address the root cause of their improper payments.are now. I wonder what the bar is for Financial Management to be rated green. Anonymous Posted December 7, 2007 8:52 AM
• How many red lights do you need so see before you declare this entire administration a complete failure ? retired air traffic controller Posted December 5, 2007 7:25 PM
• I find it ironic that GovExec gave a green to Budget and Performance Integration. If its reporters had talked with actual federal program managers and program evaluation specialists (who actually received training in the program evaluation field and know what they're talking about), much less career OMB examiners, GovExec would have given a different grade. BPI/PART/PII is a paper exercise focused on "performance" measurement (with selective OMB and administration views on how to define "performance"); painfully lacking in emphasis on, proper use of, and actual use of program evaluation methods (as opposed to performance measurement, which doesn't necessarily reflect the impact of federal activities); based on stylized, budget-driven definitions of "programs" that often do not correspond to actual operations and create vast cynicism within OMB career ranks (not to mention the agencies). Instead, GovExec talks to talking heads with vested interests (Breul and Shea, who both worked at OMB when the PMA and PART were developed). GovExec missed the story. Anonymous GS-15 with academic and professional training Posted December 4, 2007 6:35 PM