The article describes the technology of performance management as a special type of management, which is based on comparison between the achieved and planned indicators. The authors prove the necessity to implement this method into the practice of government agencies and their officials’ activities managing. In Russia, this method is used in stuff management, i.e. at enterprises, but not in government. There is no practice of public obligations of agencies’ heads for their annual work. The term “performance management” is not used in Russian science, it is replaced by "management by results," which has absolutely other meaning. It seems that the Russian state leaders see a low level of quality management in the country. There were calls for improved planning and separate measures have been proposed at least in the presidential decrees. The authors of the article reveal some improvements, but consider them absolutely inadequate. For the argumentation of this conclusion, the accounts of the Ministry of Economic Development - the profile structure in the Government responsible for carrying out economic and administrative reforms - considered. The result of our calculations: the report does not comply with the principles of the PM, of the planned indicators the report contained only 11%.