MSP: Achieving Practitioner Certification
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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
- Apply the MSP Principles and Governance Themes
- Identify and define programmes that support your organisation’s strategic objectives
- Manage the programme to attain measurable benefits
Important Course Information
Course Preparation
- The reading materials (Learning Tree Precourse Study Guide and Managing Successful Programmes 2011 Edition) are shipped to you prior to your training course.
- 20 hours of precourse reading 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
Foundation Exam: Day 4
- Taking the exam
- Obtaining results
Practitioner Exam: Day 5
- Taking the exam
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Tuition Fee
Course Tuition Fee Includes:
Training Hours
Days 1 - 4 class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Two 15-minute breaks
60-minute lunch
Day 4, Foundation Exam*
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Day 5 class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
60-minute lunch
Day 5, Practitioner Exam*
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
2 hours overnight reading and homework required
*All AnyWare remote attendees will need to contact our Learning Tree Customer Service department prior to their course start date in order to make arrangements for taking the necessary exams.
AFTERNOON START class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest
9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
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