Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®)

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of the Foundation course, you will:

• Understand MSP’s integrated elements of Principles, Themes and Processes along with their relationships, building on your own experience and knowledge of change.
• Understand the benefits thread through MSP that ensures that the entire programme is predicated and focused on the realisation of benefits.
• Understand how MSP could be applied in real-life situations and test this out in a supportive training environment.
• Understand the Principles, or good practices underpinning every programme.
• Understand the Themes, or guidance on critical aspects of programme management, including Organisation, Design, Justification, Structure, Knowledge, Assurance and Decisions.
• Understand the Processes (MSP’s programme lifecycle), which includes identifying a programme, designing the outcomes, plan progressive delivery, deliver the capabilities, embed the outcomes, evaluate new information and close the programme.
• Be well prepared for the Foundation Exam.

Participants who continue with the Practitioner course will:

• Be able to describe and apply all facets of programme management, in accordance with the MSP method,
• Know how to set up and manage complex programmes, tailoring MSP while ensuring effective integration of projects,
• Monitor the objectives of a programme and make the essential adjustments needed to respond to changes in the environment.
• Be well prepared for the Practitioner Exam.

Learning Approach

Our training is run with the purposes of learning the theory, preparing you for the exam and applying in the real world. The sessions are a mixture of theory and discussion and practical group-based learning involving Post It notes, markers, flip chart paper. No laptops are required, all learning resources are supplied.

Our trainers use many practical examples from their decades of experience as hands-on programme managers and adjust the course delivery to meet the needs of the attendees.