Capital Plannng & Investment Cotrol | OMB OFCIO 2019 Guidance

How OMB OFCIO is Modifying Guidance

FY 2019

Forwarded Email from Kelly C. Morrison; EOP/OMB OMB OFCIO is modifying the guidance in the following ways:

Incremental rollout of TBM IT cost pools and IT towers, continuing FY18 momentum through 2020 and beyond. The intent is to use TBM taxonomy as the cornerstone over time to provide increased granularity of total investment costs and help us all shift from an investment-centric portfolio view. TBM’s multi-level view with increased granularity and line of sight to mission enablement will take time to transition towards; this approach is meant to allow the transition to occur over time.
Added a FY19 “Introduction” section (see attached draft) to clarify this multi-year, phased implementation strategy.
Begin TBM reporting through optional fields. In the FY19 budget guidance will ask agencies to begin unwinding their investment costs into both cost pools and IT towers; however, there will not be IT dashboard validations during the FY 2019 cycle that require these fields to be populated. OMB understands that agencies are at varying degrees of ability to report cost and budget data in this way. Gathering and organizing this data is meant to provide value to CIOs and their management teams towards enhancing their ability to conduct oversight rather than create burdensome, compliance-centric requirements.
Not publicly viewable. The investments’ cost pool and IT tower data will not be publically viewable on the IT Dashboard in FY 2019.

FY19 IT Budget – Capital Planning Guidance will still include significant structural changes, yet agencies won’t be expected to report all TBM cost pool and IT tower related data immediately, and OMB understands the data will not be perfect at this time. Instead, agencies will populate and improve data quality over a multi-year, phased approach in collaboration with OMB. Our intent is that by sharing the longer-term vision, agencies can understand the proposed changes, internalize them, and establish processes and procedures to advance IT budgeting into the 21st century.

Please know that OMB sees this as a collaborative partnership with each agency and that your feedback is important. Together, we can ensure the success of the FY19 guidance as a roadmap for long-term implementation. To make the changes to the IT Budget Guidance described above, as well as to ensure that all of the comments and feedback we received is given the proper care and attention, we are going to push the release of the FY 2019 IT Budget – Capital Planning Guidance 95% solution to next Friday, May 12th. As committed to previously, every comment received will be addressed and a master comment file will be posted on our MAX Community page when the guidance is released. It is our intention to be transparent and open in our partnership with agency practitioners at every step and address your concerns wherever possible.

Upcoming CPIC CoP Meeting and Training:

Tuesday, May 16th from 2-3:30pm at GSA: CPIC CoP meeting

Friday, May 19th from 1-4pm at GSA: Training for the Capital Planning Community related to the FY 2019 IT Budget – Capital Planning Guidance. We have space for 3 people per agency to attend in person, and we will have a dial in as well. Please be on the lookout more information on how to sign up for physical attendance to the all agency training as well as how to sign up for Agency 1:1 trainings.

Please continue to reach out with any questions and feedback that you have. Thank you for your partnership, openness, and understanding as we work through this transition process together.

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