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Select Agencies Are Working on Technology Business Management Playbook

NextGov: Several federal agencies are working together on a set of best practices for implementing the Technology Business Management framework, a set of rules and procedures for categorizing IT investments that prioritize mission outcomes, though it is unclear if and when that “playbook” will see a public release.

Walter McDonald, director of the Education Department’s IT Program Services office, said during a Digital Government Institute event Tuesday that his department was working with the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget on a TBM Playbook to help other agencies make the move. Agencies received a mandate to use TBM for tracking IT projects in the President’s Management Agenda, which includes a cross-agency priority goal to fully implement the framework by 2022.

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