When the Outcome Isn’t a Deliverable: Planning Beyond the Fiscal Year

Title: When the Outcome Isn’t a Deliverable: Planning Beyond the Fiscal Year
Abstract: Every year, as March rolls in, the same pattern shows up in the federal service. Budgets wrap up. Projects speed up. Teams rush to progress. The deadlines are real, and the cycle is predictable enough to feel almost routine. That rhythm works when you are producing something clear and countable, like a report, a tool, or a dataset. Waterfall planning sequences deliverables: Phase 1 in Q2 and Phase 2 by fiscal year-end.

Housing is different. Its impact unfolds over years, not quarters. Policy changes, new practices, and new construction methods take time to show up in people’s lives, and those timelines rarely match fiscal ones.
Contributor: Elisabeth Girgis-McEwen
Format: PDF
Type: text
Extent: 2 pages
Language: en-CA
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License
Is Part Of: Capacity and Constraint, Timeframes and Tolerances; Cross-cutting system threads
Description: text
Identifier: 027
Source: BPiBS Website at UVic

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