Description

This four-day course will provide you with a thorough understanding of the internationally recognised and best practice programme management methodology Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), providing the skills you need to confidently use MSP to manage programmes in line with strategic aims of a business and its day to day running.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills to be able to identify and document the vision of a programme, thus aligning it to the strategic aims of the business. You will also be able to coordinate the projects of a programme to ensure the correct application of resources and risk, issue and change management. You will also be able to interface with the day to day business to ensure the smooth transition of changes delivered by a programme into business as usual activity and ensure that the benefits that the programme is designed to deliver are achieved.

Learning Objectives

Prepare to achieve your MSP® (Managing Successful Programmes) Foundation and Practitioner certifications with this training course. As a certified MSP Practitioner, you demonstrate your knowledge of the Managing Successful Programmes framework, and understand how to apply proven concepts and best practices for successfully delivering transformational change.

• You Will Learn How To
  • Prepare for and take the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Foundation and Practitioner Exams.
  • Leverage the MSP process model to provide a roadmap for successful organization outcomes.
  • Identify and define programmes that support your organisation’s strategic objectives.
  • After-course instructor coaching benefit.
  • MSP Foundation and Practitioner exam vouchers included.

Prerequisites

You 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.

Pre-Course Reading

The reading materials are provided to you prior to your training course. We recommend you read the book prior to your course and 2 hours of home study each evening are required.

Course Outline

Introduction to MSP

• Adhering to MSP Principles
• Defining the processes and themes

Transformational Flow Processes

• Identifying a programme
  • Appointing the Sponsoring Group and Programme Board
  • Developing a Programme Brief
  • Creating a Programme Preparation Plan

• Defining a programme
  • Refining the Vision Statement and Blueprint
  • Modelling the benefits
  • Establishing a Programme Plan
  • Designing governance arrangements
  • Confirming the Business Case
  • Bringing together the Programme Definition Document

• Managing the tranche
  • Implementing defined governance for the programme
  • Undertaking audit and assurance reviews
  • Maintaining alignment between programme blueprint and business strategy objectives
  • Managing risks and issues

• Delivering the capability
  • Starting projects
  • Engaging stakeholders
  • Controlling project delivery
  • Closing projects

• Realising the benefits
  • Preparing for transition
  • Undergoing transition
  • Measuring the benefits

• Closing a Programme
  • Confirming programme closure
  • Reviewing the programme
  • Disbanding the programme organisation

Leading the Programme

• Programme organisation
  • Designing a programme organisational structure
  • Identifying responsibilities of everyone involved

• Ensuring stakeholder engagement
  • Analysing and identifying stakeholders
  • Profiling and mapping stakeholder interests and issues
  • Developing a Communications Plan
  • Measuring communication effectiveness

Aligning the Vision, Blueprint and Business Case

• Creating the Vision and Blueprint
  • Designing a model of the future organisation
  • Modelling processes, organisation, information

• The Business Case
  • Creating and evolving the Business Case
  • Validating against the Vision and Blueprint
  • Testing the ongoing viability of the programme

Governing the Programme

• Planning and controlling the programme
  • Deciding on the structure of the tranches
  • Defining the contents of a Programme Plan
  • Resourcing the programme
  • Identifying how the programme will be controlled with associated responsibilities

• Benefits management
  • Mapping, profiling and categorising benefits
  • Employing the benefits management cycle

• Managing risks and issues
  • Controlling the aggregated risk profile
  • Responding to threats and opportunities
  • Resolving issues

• Quality and assurance management
  • Designing a Quality and Assurance Management Strategy for a programme
  • Achieving the right level of quality
  • Applying the principles of assurance management

Foundation and Practitioner Exams

• Preparing for the exams
  • Gaining insight into the exam process
  • Practising with sample exam questions