Despite the Office of Management and Budget’s efforts for more than five years to increase the number of federal project managers and improve their skills, most of this effort has gone for naught, according to a new assessment.

A CIO Council Information Technology Workforce Capability Assessment issued today on the organization’s Web site found that the number of respondents who said they are project managers decreased by 3.4 percent since 2004, and their proficiency in the skills necessary has remained largely unchanged.

“While there are no large gaps for personnel performing [information technology] project management functions extensively, specific competencies within the ITPM specialty area remain of concern, such as in capital planning and investment and in project management,” the survey stated. “The largest gaps for those performing ITPM extensively and moderately are in project management software, federal enterprise architecture and earned value management.”

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