Now that all the Year in Review and Year in Pictures articles have concluded, it’s time to move on to the predictions for the coming year. I’m by no means an “official” prognosticator. Yet I see a trend that has been building over the last several months in the federal HR space – a renewed emphasis on performance management in relation to talent management and people management – that leads me to believe that 2015 might be the year of performance management for federal agencies.