We then selected five examples of agencies' workforce planning
activities (one example corresponding to each of the five workforce
planning principles) to present in the report. We met with human
capital and program officials and analyzed documents related to these
examples to more fully understand the specific workforce planning
issues associated with the examples and how the agencies addressed
these issues.

We selected the examples that in our judgment collectively illustrated
these principles across a diverse set of federal programs. Because our
review objectives did not include evaluating the effectiveness of
agencies' workforce planning processes, we did not evaluate these
processes nor did we require the presence of evaluations or other
evidence demonstrating planning effectiveness as a criterion for
selecting examples. We did exclude from consideration, however,
processes that agencies were just beginning or that were not complete
enough for agencies to be willing to present them as successful
planning efforts.