3.2.2: Link the PRM to the PART Framework
The President’s Management Agenda focuses on five government-wide initiatives, one of which is budget and performance integration.
Three main objectives of the budget and performance integration strategy include: Identify high-quality, outcome-focused performance
measures; Monitor performance accurately; and Integrate performance levels with associated costs. In support of the President’s
Management Agenda, OMB implemented several performance assessment activities including the Program Assessment Rating Tool
(PART) program. A PART review identifies program strengths and weaknesses to assist the program in making more effective funding
and management decisions. OMB also published the Performance Reference Model (PRM) volumes I and II as part of the FEA, to
assist agencies with developing performance measures at the investment level. The PRM helps agencies to: Enhance IT performance
plans and measures to improve strategic decisionmaking; Improve the alignment between IT and business outputs/outcomes, thereby
creating a clear “line of sight” to desired results (i.e., goals and objectives); Identify performance improvement opportunities
crossing traditional organizational structures and boundaries; and Measure the value and benefits achieved when major IT investments
are implemented. The FEA PMO will conduct a gap analysis to examine the level of alignment between the PART and PRM and make
recommendations to improve the effectiveness of both the tool and the framework to ensure consistency of performance measurement
across the government. Increasing alignment of the PRM and the PART will: Ensure a common measurement framework is used to
measure IT investment contribution to program performance; Bring IT into the context of strategic program decision-making;
and Establish a link between IT investment and mission (through programs) to demonstrate results.
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