MSP®: Achieving Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training

• Adhering to MSP Principles
• Defining the processes and themes

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

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

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

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

• Gaining insight into the exam process
• Practising with sample exam questions