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- MSP Themes: Blueprint Design and Delivery
- MSP Themes: Risk Management and Issue...
- MSP Themes: Programme Planning and Control
- MSP Themes: Business Case
- MSP Themes: Risks and Issues
- MSP Themes: Quality management
- Identifying a Programme
- Defining a Programme
- Managing the Tranches
- Delivering the Capability
- Realising the Benefits
- Closing a Programme
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Split in to 5 bite-sized parts, this quiz tests your understanding of MSP principles and themes.
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MSP Quiz Part 2: Setting up the Programme
MSP Quiz Part 3: Defining the Programme
MSP Quiz Part 4: Delivering the Projects
How is Programme Management different from Project Management?
Whilst Project Management is about controlling a project, Programme Management is concerned with controlling a group of related projects. (If the projects are not related then this becomes portfolio management)
When a project is too large to manage as a single entity it needs to be split up into smaller more manageable projects, often with multiple project managers.
These smaller projects should all be designed to achieve a single long-term objective or benefit for the organisation. It is the Programme Managers role to make sure all projects run on target and achieve their objectives.
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Introduction
In today’s fast changing world of innovative technology, challenging economic climate and other environmental factors, change within our organizations is common place.
Organizations that are able to respond to change and transform through effective leadership and strategic control are more likely to be successful at adapting to the ever increasing need to change.
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) represents proven programme management good practice in successfully delivering transformational change.
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What is a programme?
MSP defines a programme as a temporary, flexible organization created to co-ordinate, direct and oversee the implementation of a set of related projects and activities in order to deliver outcomes and benefits related to the organizations strategic objectives.
Types of programmes
Programmes may be (in increasing levels of complexity) either :
- Vision Led – Change being delivered has a clear vision which tends to be from a top down approach. It is also likely to focus on innovation or strategic opportunity.
- Emergent – Change evolves from un-coordinated projects that have grown within an organization.
- Compliance – change must be done to comply with legislation.
Some programmes may be very well defined with a clear outcome, while others may be less predictable. The less predictable the outcome, the more useful MSP® will be to ensure you achieve your outcome.
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The key benefits of using MSP are:
- More effective delivery of changes because they can be planned and implemented in an integrated way, ensuring current business operations are not adversely affected
- Keeping activities focused on the business change objectives by providing a structured framework for senior management to direct and manage the change process
- Better management of risk because the wider context is understood and explicitly acknowledged
- Improved control through a framework within which the costs of introducing new infrastructure, standards and quality regimes can be justified, measured and assessed
- More effective management of the business case by building and maintaining a business case that clearly compares current business operations with the more beneficial future business operations
- Smooth transition from current to future business operations through the clear recognition and responsibility for preparing the organization for migration to new ways of working
- Effective response to strategic initiatives by bridging the gap between strategies and projects
- More efficient management of resources by providing a mechanism for project prioritisation and project integration
- Helping to achieve real business benefits through a formal process of benefit identification, management, realisation and measurement
- Clarification of how new business operations will deliver improved performance by defining desired benefits and linking these to the achievement of new working practices
- More efficient co-ordination and control of the often complex range of activities by clearly defining roles and responsibilities for managing the project portfolio and realising the benefits expected from the programme
- Achieving a consistent system of new or amended policies, standards, and working practices through the integrated definition, planning, delivery and assurance of the required changes.
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This diagram explains the structure of MSP -
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MSP® is principles based so it is possible to provide a common framework for understanding for all programmes. The principles are represented in the outer ring in the diagram.
Principles are:
- Universal – they apply to every programme
- Self validating – they have been proven in practice
- Empowering – give practitioners added ability or power to influence and shape the transformational change towards success.
The following seven principles should always be kept in mind when applying MSP to your programme, they 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
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Governance is the functions, processes, responsibilities and procedures that define how a programme is set up, managed and controlled and cover the following areas:
- Programme Organization
- Vision
- Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement
- Benefits Management
- Blueprint Design and Delivery
- Planning and Control
- The Business Case
- Risks and Issue Management
- Quality and assurance Management
The governance themes represent the concepts, strategies and techniques that will be used throughout the programme for support and guidance. The Governance Themes are represented by the second ring in the diagram.
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