Assess whether performance measures are honest or vanity (8de91e)

SITUATION Performance-management analyst in a reorganization that moves programs across bureaus has one working extract — performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems — after an IG draft that will go public Thursday. If performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems cannot support performance measures are honest, the only defensible Government output is hold.

DECISION Performance-management analyst in a reorganization that moves programs across bureaus must choose Performance measures are honest / Vanity using performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems after an IG draft that will go public Thursday.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. An IG draft that will go public Thursday is noise around an already-controlled Policy and Grants process in a reorganization that moves programs across bureaus, given performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems. 2. An IG draft that will go public Thursday is the event in performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems that forces Performance measures are honest for performance-management analyst under Government. 3. Performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems shows a one-file miss after an IG draft that will go public Thursday, not a Policy and Grants program failure. 4. Performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems cannot decide performance measures are honest yet after an IG draft that will go public Thursday; hold is the only Government close a reorganization that moves programs across bureaus can defend.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Check notice and appeal timing around an IG draft that will go public Thursday. 2. Trace the audit trail performance-management analyst would produce for oversight. 3. Map eligibility, appropriation, and program rules in performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems after an IG draft that will go public Thursday. 4. For this Government Policy and Grants file, read performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems against an IG draft that will go public Thursday and write the one fact that would move performance measures are honest for performance-management analyst.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Performance measures are honest / Vanity on this Government / Policy and Grants packet (performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems after an IG draft that will go public Thursday). The follow-on Policy and Grants action is what performance-management analyst does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government option on performance measures are honest, then the evidence in performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems, then the action for performance-management analyst - Hypothesis scorecard against performance-measure set that cannot be produced from systems: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes performance measures are honest if an IG draft that will go public Thursday is later withdrawn - Named option among Performance measures are honest, Vanity and the fact that kills the others