Committed to a smooth transition of power, the White House Transition Project is a vast resource of information; under the Plum Book link is the following lament:
Every four years and after an election the government publishes a compendium of positions the new President will need to fill. The 2008 Plum Book has arrived on that schedule. WHTP makes it available by download (pdf): download here.
Unfortunately, now is too late. After extensive experience with presidential transitions, the WHTP has consistently recommended that the Plum Books come out prior to the national conventions so that the campaign transition planners can begin developing strategies for how to blend their policy agenda and their personnel agenda.
Interestingly, Barack Obama came under criticism this past summer for moving forward with the same type of planning that previous presidential candidates had embarked upon, and the criticism was not challenged by the media (the links below each video will take you to research by Media Matters on the presidential transitions from Jimmy Carter through George W. Bush):
In addition to change.gov, the Obama transition has a wikipedia entry.
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