Federal Manager's Daily Report Friday, September 10, 2004 Published by FEDweek, the federal government's largest information resource with now over one million weekly readers to its electronic newsletters.
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OPM Calls for Government-wide IT Training Framework Based on Clinger-Cohen Competencies The Office of Personnel Management has announced its intention to link existing government-wide IT training programs into a consolidated framework largely based on the Clinger-Cohen core competencies developed in 1997 to help agencies establish knowledge and skill requirements, and recommended increased use of the IT exchange program. OPM conducted a study in 2000 of the federal IT workforce and identified competencies for the IT management occupational series and parenthetical specialty titles, that together with the Clinger-Cohen competency information represent the critical competencies for the federal IT workforce and are the evaluative basis for the report in determining the adequacy of the existing IT programs, said OPM. It said such a framework would "raise the bar for federal IT training and education, and called for improvements to existing training opportunities. The Government Accountability Office said in a recent report that federal agencies often did not follow best practices in IT training, and survey respondents cited budget and time constraints as reasons for not devoting more time to IT training. The Clinger-Cohen competencies identified by OPM are: policy and organizational leadership; process and change management; information resources strategy and planning; performance assessment: models and methods; project and program management; capital planning and investment assessment; acquisition; e-government, electronic business and e-commerce; IT security and information; and, desktop technology tools. 2. GAO Issues FFMIA Checklist The Government Accountability Office has issued a core financial systems requirements checklist designed to help reviews of agency core systems to determine if they comply with the federal financial management improvement act as well as assist in annual reporting. It is geared to federal program managers, systems analysts and developers, accountants and others who design, develop, implement, operate or maintain financial management systems. Agencies should assess the results of the completed checklist based on the core financial system requirements as a whole in determining FFMIA compliance, said GAO. The checklist columns correspond to a question, answer and explanation, with a "yes" answer indicating that an agency's core financial system provides for the capability described in the question. GAO said cost-benefit studies and supporting documentation should be referenced in explanations. The checklist is available at: www.gao/new.items/d04763g.pdf 3. Guidance Issued on Excused Absences The Army has issued guidance to supervisors on the use of excused absence, saying that while supervisors may grant such leave at their discretion, the authority "should be used sparingly." "There are no specific statutory provisions or Office of Personnel Management (OPM) regulations covering excused absence. The Department of Defense (DoD) provides agency guidance on excused absence in the Civilian Personnel Manual, DoD 1400.25-M. The U.S. General Accounting Office's (GAO) Civilian Personnel Law Manual, Title II-Leave, Chapter 5, may also be used as a general reference for excused absence," the guidance says, noting that Comptroller General decisions on use of the authority limit the discretion to "situations involving brief absences." It said common situations for granting excused absence include: employees returning from active military duty; voting; and when the employee is unavoidable absent or tardy; such as, tardy resulted from a traffic delay due to road closure. Published by FEDweek LLC 11551 Nuckols Rd. 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