Return to Article: GSA takes lead in effort to develop IT performance standards
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I applaud GSA's desire to leverage standards. However, this work does not belong in the competitive world, and appears to be in conflict with current government policy and lessons learned from past efforts to engage commercial integrators who have little motivation to leverage what already exists.
It seems to also undermine the investments made by non-profits who perform these tasks already, while being at odds with OMB A119. It would be useful to explore failures from similar approaches and learn from these. Those who do not learn from history are assured of repeating it.
As there are almost no government best practices in developing infrastructure performance metrics, and given the guidance of Clinger/Cohen, our IT leadership might consider leveraging mechanisms that already exist to exploit commercial industry best practices. Major corporations like GM, FedEx, Citigroup, have successfully solved this problem and are working through a few non-profits like ICHnet.org to share these best practices with government.
Maybe this is part of the plan and it is not visible at this time.
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