GPRA's "Year 2000" Problem: Performance Reporting.(Government Performance and Results Act)(Brief Article)

To those who have labored in the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) vineyard, who assumed that times would be better after strategic and annual performance goals were defined, and who cling to the hope that the "beginning of the end" is upon us with the advent of performance reporting--"get serious." The real fun is only now about to start.

Notwithstanding the progress that has been made--progress that reflects deeper and broader penetration than we probably had any basis to hope for and certainly more substantive development than previous governmentwide initiatives--we are very likely to encounter our own "Year 2000" problem. Performance reports, or more …