Managing Successful Programmes – MSP Overview 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.

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.

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

Prerequisites

• 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.

Delegates will learn how to

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.

Course Outline.

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

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