Method Description
‘Managing Successful Programmes Manual’ combines rigour and flexibility, helping all organizations – public sector and private, large and small – achieve successful outcomes from their programme management time and time again. With change a pressing reality for all organizations, successful programme management has never been more vital to success.
MSP is accessible by programme teams and organizations as well as by individual practitioners. It will help programme management practitioners improve their decision making at programme level and become better at implementing beneficial change.
Key features
Describes the best practice approach to designing and running programmes to implement business change.
- Identifies the principles behind good programme management and how these are put into practice through the application of themes, such as Benefits Management, that run through a process of transformational flow from identifying a programme through managing stages of delivery to closing it down.
- Illustrated with real life examples and helpful tips for putting best practice into real life situations.
- The guidance has been revised to capture the latest thinking on programme management best practice. The sections on quality, benefits and risk and issue management have been significantly overhauled to give them a better programme focus.
- Includes new guidance covering assurance and integrated assurance.
Features of the 2011 edition include:
- Clearer guidance on how a programme deals with multiples Business Change Managers.
- More about programme Tranches: when they may overlap and the risks in doing so.
- Completely revised chapters for Benefits Management, Quality and Assurance Management and Risk and Issue Management to be programme centric and for consistency with other Best Management Practice guidance.
- New guidance covering integrated assurance has been added to the Quality and Assurance Management chapter.
- The theme chapters now have a section on how the theme interacts with the transformational flow.
- More guidance on Configuration Management particularly in relation to managing issues.
- Consistent use of terminology and concepts for the RACI tables, roles and responsibilities, and the distinction between strategies and plans.
MSP® 2011 Overview
This one-day course provides participants with a broad understanding of the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) programme management methodology, providing the skills needed to consider the use of MSP to manage programmes in line with strategic aims of a business and its day to day running.
By undertaking this learning delegates will show their understanding of the theories behind the running of a programme. By the end of this learning, delegates will understand the skills required to be able to:
- Identify and document the vision of a programme, thus aligning it to the strategic aims of the business
- Coordinate the projects of a programme to ensure the correct application of resources and risk, issue and change management
- Interface the programme with the day to day business to ensure the smooth transition of changes delivered by a programme into business as usual activity
- Ensure that the benefits that the programme was designed to deliver are achieved.
Delivered by fully accredited trainers and industry leading experts with extensive experience of using MSP, the course includes a relevant, modern case study to help delegates to understand how to apply the MSP® way of managing programmes in the real world.
Who is this course for?
Delegates should ideally have experience of managing or working in programmes prior to attending. Knowledge of the PRINCE2® project management method is advantageous but by no means mandatory, but some exposure to a project management method will aid understanding of how the programme works with these projects.
Equally, anyone wishing to attain industry-leading programme management qualifications should attend these courses
What will the course enable you to do?
This course will enable delegates to:
- Identify the principles and structure of MSP
- Understand the benefits of a structured method in a changing environment
- Identify the MSP process model
- Understand the MSP themes
- Define a programme organisation structure
- Understand the importance of engaging with stakeholders at all levels
- Understand the need for a vision and blueprint and their importance to the programme
- Identify possible progress control mechanisms
- Appreciate the principles of programme level quality and risk management
Course pre-reading and preparation
No pre-reading is required for this course.
Accreditations and exams
This course does not include any examinations; PMWEB also offers the Foundation, Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner qualification courses.
Delegates will learn how to
MSP Philosophy and structure
- What is a programme and how it differs to both business as usual and project work
- Relationship between the MSP Principles, Governance Themes and the Transformational Flow.
The 7 MSP Principles
- Remaining aligned with corporate strategy
- Leading change
- Envisioning and communicating a better future
- Focusing on benefits and threats to them
- Adding value
- Designing and delivering a coherent capability
- Learning from experience
The 9 MSP Governance Themes
- Organisation
- Vision
- Leadership and stakeholder engagement
- Benefits realisation management
- Blueprint design and delivery
- Planning and control
- Business case
- Risks and issue management
- Quality and assurance management
The 6 MSP Transformational Flow Processes
- Identifying a Programme
- Defining a programme
- Managing the tranches
- Delivering the capability
- Realising the benefits
- Closing a programme
MSP® is a Registered Trademark of the Cabinet Office