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What is MSP  & how it works?

 MSP® offers best practice  guidance to help all organisations, public and private sector to achieve successful outcomes from their programme management time and time again. All programmes exit in their own  unique context that makes it impossible to implement quick-fix  solutions. However, it is possible to create a framework for programme  implementation and management provided it is based on the right  principles. Info Spec's MSP® training covers  the MSP® guidance & approach that can bring numerous for-reaching  benefits to your organisations:

It ensures that:

• Programmes and projects are planned effectively so they deliver the outcomes & benefits on time and on budget.
• Keep a clear focus on outcomes.
• Respond to ongoing changes inside and outside the organisation
• Define responsibilities and lines of communication.
• Provide a framework for engaging and involving stakeholders.
• Analyse and manage risks effectively
• Audit and manage quality

MSP® Benefits: Managing Successful Programemes  is definitive guidance in managing inter-related projects as a  coordinated programme of business change in order to manage risks and  benefits more effectively. Managing Successful Programmes is widely adopted in the public and private sectors, and developed by a  consortium of over 100 organisations including from within services  industries.

MSP Programme Management:
Programme Management, like project management, is a management approach for  bringing together people, activities and information to achieve a  significant business change.
Programme Management? is a framework for setting up and running a programme or portfolio of projects.

What is a programme?
A programme is made up of a specific set of related projects identified by an organisation that together will deliver some defined objective, or set of objectives, for the organisation. The objectives, or goals, of  the programme are typically at a strategic level so that the  organisation can achieve benefits and improvements in its business  operation. There is a close link between Programme Management and  project management because the programme is made up of projects and is  only successful if the projects within it succeed. The concept of a programme is that it should deliver more than the 'sum of its parts'. In other words, without Programme Management, the projects would probably  still be able to deliver their particular outcomes but these would not  be co-ordinated or integrated into the achievement of a strategic  business goal.

The Principles in Managing Successful Programmes advise how to:

• Organise people to ensure responsibilities and lines of communication are clear
• Plan the work in a way which achieves results
• Ensure that the organisation benefits from undertaking the programme
• Ensure that all interested parties (the stakeholders) are involved
• Resolve issues which arise
• Identify and manage risks
• Ensure quality
• Keep up to date information which tracks the continually changing environment
• Audit a programme to ensure standards are being followed

The Processes in Managing Successful Programmes describe how to:

• Identify the aim of the programme and envisaged benefits to the organisation
• Define the programme, and specify how the organisation will be different afterwards
• Establish the programme
• Monitor and co-ordinate the projects within a programme to a successful conclusion
• Manage the transition between the 'old' and 'new' ways of working, ensuring benefit
• Close the programme and ensure the 'end goal' has been achieved

Course Schedule 2012