Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) includes universal principles, in that they apply to every programme. They are self-validating as they have been proven in practice, and they are empowering, because they give practitioners of this framework added ability to influence and shape transformational change towards success. The principles are: – Remaining aligned with corporate strategy – Leading change – Envisioning and communicating a better future – Focusing on the benefits and threats to them – Adding value – Designing and delivering a coherent capability – Learning from experience.
Officially launched in 1999, “Managing Successful Programmes” (MSP®) is a guide that provides and maintains a strategic view over the set of projects, aligning and co-ordinating them within a programme of business change in support of specific business strategies.
Benefits Of MSP®
The benefits of using this method include:
Can be used in harmony with other Best Management Practice guidance, such as PRINCE2® and M_o_R® and any international or internal organizational standards
Highly suitable for business transformation and political/societal change
Accommodates high levels of complexity, ambiguity and risk
MSP Principles can be applied to any change, whatever level of its focus, or nature of outcomes
Programmes are always planned and managed with an end in mind.
Course Objectives
The key objectives of this course are to enable delegates to understand:
Provide Delegates with an understanding of the benefits and principles underlying a structured approach to programme management
Apply the principles of MSP® to a programme within a work environment
Operate effectively with colleagues and managers within a structured programme and project management environment
Enable delegates to understand the MSP® framework to be prepared to sit the APM Group MSP® Foundation exam
Course Approach
This is the 3 day Foundation course and is a mixture of input and practical sessions teaching to the APM Group ‘Foundation-level’ syllabus, delivered by an APMG approved trainer with practical experience of project and programme management. The course incorporates the APM Group MSP® Foundation exam, but includes additional focus on the application of the method using application-level tasks in order to add value and help delegates better understand how to apply MSP to a programme, as well as be better prepared if they ever choose to go on to take the Practitioner-level exam in the future.
The Foundation exam is taken near the end of the last day, after all of the MSP® elements have been sufficiently covered.
The pre-course material includes SPOCE’s highly acclaimed event preparation materials and the MSP® Manual. Delegates should spend approximately 10 hours studying this pre-course material in order to be well prepared for the course.
Approach & Exams
MSP® Foundation Exam: 1 hour, closed book, 75 multiple-choice questions.
CPD/PDUs will be 20.
