Return to Article: GAO: Defense Department management weaknesses persist
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" entities given the responsibility for establishing the department's enterprise architecture, stating that one met only four times in four years and another did not include the military services in its deliberations. " This is typical DoD method of operation. It is not just BMMP but in everything DoD does. Even if they include the services in the deliberations, they ignore the input and go ahead with their desires anyway. Meeting with the services just allows them to say everyone had a chance for input now do it our way! BMMP meetings are worthless and the DoD managers running them do not know enough about the subject they are working to develop the proper methodology. They cannot even evaluate the input from those most qualified to provide it! Even when they recognize a problems they ignore it and charge ahead. When facing a situation they cannot explain to their desired outcome they simply say whatever and table the discussion for a later meeting that never takes place. GAO has discovered incompetent managers in the DoD structure-boy what a surprise! And these are the people that are going to run pay for performance!
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Oh, good grief. If the body is plagued by a cancer, how can one arm be cured? The management problem is the result of years of favoritism and empire building by an entrenched good ole boy system.
Instead of placing qualified and competent personnel in management positions, OPM just ignored the agencies and let them pick whomever they preferred. That was usually the good buddies in house.
Instead of recruiting qualified, well educated managers from outside of the government, OPM would post the positions as if they had intent and then fill them from inside, often with very unqualified personnel. Then, instead of measuring the performance of management against a reasonable standard, they let the different offices write their own requirements. How often has any manager been removed from their position for failing to perform? Instead of demanding performance, the different DOD agencies just kept lowering the bar.
The Pentagon has no right to play ignorant. They know exactly what the problem is. They are the cause of it. They have done nothing about it for decades. So now, just like in an incestuous family, the deformities have become hideous and impossible to hide.
Where do the firings have to start to bring real improvement?
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