Programme Management Courses
MSP is an acronym of Managing Successful Programmes. MSP provides a set of principles, governance themes and transformational flow processes for use when establishing and managing a programme. It is founded on best practice although it is not prescriptive. It is very flexible and designed to be adapted to meet the needs of local circumstances.
Benefits for Individuals
- Understand the human side of change and know how to help people deal more effectively with change, maintaining their commitment and bringing them successfully through the change process;
- Understand the various types of change that affect organizations, and know how to draw on a range of professional approaches to support the effective delivery of the organization’s desired outcomes from each change initiative;
- Know how to identify and work with the stakeholders in a change initiative, and how to plan, execute and measure the effective communications required to build and maintain their engagement;
- Know how to assess the impacts of change, to develop effective change teams and to recognize and address resistance to change;
- Understand the process of sustaining change and know how to embed a change initiative as the new ‘business as usual’.
Benefits for Organisations
- Ensure your organisation's Project Managers are trained to meet your organisations goals and objectives by ensuring projects are delivered on schedule, on time and in budget.
- Formal global benchmark certification (AgilePM®) will ensure that a structured and consistent repeatable methodology is embedded within the organisation to ensure projects are successfully delivered
- Reduction in training costs and increased employee productivity as training would be done by employees on their own time and convenience thereby avoiding loss of employee “work time” due to traditional classroom based methods
- Training that will be perceived by employees as a real benefit in their jobs to achieve business outcomes and provide career pathways to senior management especially during the global COVID-19 pandemic
- Complement existing employee retention and benefit strategies and policies
- Our courseware designers are certified and accredited professionals with 100+ years of industry experience. They are supported by instructional designers, content designers and technology staff to ensure that the training courseware made available are of the highest global standard and meet educational and certification benchmarks.
- Our Trainers & Consultants are working professionals at the top of their games, and highly respected in their fields with strong business, academic and teaching credentials. These professionals bring a blend of practical global industry experience and training skills gained by training thousands of aspiring individuals over the years.
- Cost effectiveness and availability through online training, courseware, reference materials and notes can be saved on your hard drive or “in the cloud” for easy access anytime anywhere and can be viewed multiple times without limit. The cost of purchasing hardcopy and/or printing is greatly reduced. Online courses are extremely cost-effective and can be utilized efficiently.
- If you are an organisation with offices and staff in multiple locations, access to online training is a real benefit.
Course Audience
Our Change Management courses are designed for those leading, managing and supporting organisational change initiatives including:
- Senior Managers: Executives, Directors;
- Programme, Project and Business Managers;
- Change Leaders and Managers;
- Business Change Managers and Change Agents;
- Business Analysts;
- Development and Planning Managers;
- HR and Organizational Development Practitioners;
- Consultants and Facilitators;
- Individuals aspiring to become Change Managers;
- Those seeking certification in organisational change management.
MSP ® Foundation
This course provides participants with a solid Foundation in MSP concepts.
Who Should Enroll?
People who must identify, define, govern, manage or act in a programme management framework, including senior executive sponsors, programme managers, programme office staff, business architects, change managers, and operational managers responsible for transition and benefits realisation.
Pre-requisites
There are no prerequisites for the course, however some exposure to project management would be useful.
Course Content
The Foundation Course covers MSP’s:
- Principles, or good practices underpinning every programme;
- Governance Themes, or guidance on critical aspects of programme management, including:
- Programme Organisation;
- Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement;
- Benefits Engagement;
- Business Case;
- Risk and Issue Management;
- Planning and Control;
- Vision;
- Blueprint Design and Delivery;
- Quality and Assurance Management
as well as guidance on integrating programme and project controls
- Transformational Flow, MSP’s programme lifecycle, which includes:
- Identifying a Programme;
- Defining a Programme;
- Managing the Tranches;
- Delivering Capability;
- Realising the Benefits;
- Closing a Programme
- Programme Office roles and services;
- Programme documentation and information flow;
- Guidance on adoption of MSP;
- Guidance on how to use the tranche and workstream concepts to structure more complex programmes;
- Hands on activities, discussions, role plays, quizzes and mind maps in every session to ensure you have absorbed MSP;
- Guidance on how to prepare for the Foundation Exam, with lots of practice
Certification Exam
The Foundation Exam is a 1 hour closed book exam. There are 75 multiple choice questions. The candidate must correctly answer 50% or more of the questions to pass the exam.
We conduct these exams on behalf of the relevant Examination Institute, subject to their terms and conditions.
Your course fee includes a “one time” examination cost.
Professional Development
Successful completion of this course may entitle you to credits in various professional development programmes:
- For AIPM CPD points, check here;
- For PMI PDUs, click here
Follow-on Courses
We recommend that those who have completed the Foundation course should move on to the MSP Practitioner course as soon as possible, while their knowledge of MSP remains fresh.
The most economical way to take both Foundation and Practitioner courses is our MSP Combined Foundation and Practitioner course.
We also recommend our Agile project management course.
AgilePM ® Practitioner
This course covers the certification developed by APMG and the Agile Business Consortium to provide an agile approach to project management.
The course is equally divided between the theory of the new wave of agile project management and the practical experience of the techniques and disciplines involved.
This seminar advances participants to a Practitioner understanding of how to apply AgilePM guidance in practice.
The Practitioner Seminar will enable students to demonstrate their ability to:
- Apply the underpinning philosophy and principles of AgilePM in a project situation;
- Appropriately configure the lifecycle of an Agile project to a given scenario;
- Produce and evaluate the content of Agile products produced during an Agile project in a given scenario;
- Apply the following Agile techniques in a project situation: Facilitated Workshops; MoSCoW prioritisation; Iterative Development; Modelling; Timeboxing;
- Identify the Agile techniques to be used for a given situation within a scenario;
- Understand the roles and responsibilities within an Agile project and correctly determine the appropriate personnel to fulfil these roles within a given scenario;
- Understand the mechanisms for control of an Agile Project which are specific to an Agile project;
- Understand in outline how to test, estimate and measure progress in an Agile project;
- Describe the agile approach to managing requirements and identify action to rectify problems with requirements within an Agile project from a given scenario.
Students will be fully prepared for the Practitioner exam.
Who Should Enroll?
The course is aimed at Project Managers who are either adding to their knowledge of traditional approaches such as PRINCE2 or who are operating in an agile environment and need to be able to run projects in more complex and scalable situations.
Pre-requisites
There are no prerequisites for the course, however some exposure to project management would be useful.
Candidates for the Practitioner exam must have previously passed the Foundation exam.
Course Content
The Practitioner Seminar is a scenario based training course focusing on the application of MSP under different programme environments and scenarios. Review and revision sessions of all MSP elements are included throughout the training.
Exclusive to Inspiring Projects, we have developed a full set of Practitioner-style exam questions based on a realistic scenario, to provide even more opportunity to apply and learn MSP.
Certification Exam
The Practitioner Exam is a 2½ hour, open manual, scenario based multiple choice exam. The candidate must provide responses to questions presented in the following styles:
- Classical multiple choice
- Yes/No
- Multiple response
- Matching
- Sequencing
- Assertion/Reason
There are 80 question lines worth 1 mark each, so the maximum score for the exam is 80 marks. The candidate must score 40 (50%) or more marks to pass the exam.
Candidates for the Practitioner Exam must have passed the Foundation Exam
We conduct these exams on behalf of the relevant Examination Institute, subject to their terms and conditions.
Your course fee includes a “one time” examination cost.
Professional Development
Candidates who pass the Practitioner exam are entitled to style themselves as a “Registered MSP Practitioner” on CVs and business cards.
Successful completion of this course may entitle you to credits in various professional development programmes:
- For AIPM CPD points, check here;
- For PMI PDUs, click here
Follow-on Courses
We recommend that delegates who complete this course should proceed with one of our Agile courses.
MSP ® Combined
The Combined course blends our Foundation course and Practitioner seminar. Each participant is first provided with a solid Foundation in MSP concepts, and is then advanced to a Practitioner understanding of how to apply MSP in realistic project scenarios and adapt MSP to different programme environments.
By the end of the Foundation Course students will:
- Understand MSP’s integrated elements and their relationships, building on delegates’ own experience and knowledge of large-scale change;
- Understand the benefits thread through MSP that ensures that the entire programme is predicated and focussed on realisation of benefits;
- Understand how MSP could be applied in real life situations and undertake practical work in a supportive training environment;
- Have received careful and detailed preparation for the Foundation Exam.
By the end of the Practitioner Seminar students 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;
- Have received careful and detailed preparation for the Practitioner Exam.
Who Should Enroll?
People who must identify, define, govern, manage or act in a programme management framework, including senior executive sponsors, programme managers, programme office staff, business architects, change managers, and operational managers responsible for transition and benefits realisation.
Pre-requisites
There are no prerequisites for the course, however some exposure to project management would be useful.
Candidates for the Practitioner exam must have previously passed the Foundation exam.
Course Content
The Foundation Course covers MSP’s:
- Principles, or good practices underpinning every programme;
- Governance Themes, or guidance on critical aspects of programme management, including:
- Programme Organisation;
- Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement;
- Benefits Engagement;
- Business Case;
- Risk and Issue Management;
- Planning and Control;
- Vision;
- Blueprint Design and Delivery;
- Quality and Assurance Management
as well as guidance on integrating programme and project controls
- Transformational Flow, MSP’s programme lifecycle, which includes:
- Identifying a Programme;
- Defining a Programme;
- Managing the Tranches;
- Delivering Capability;
- Realising the Benefits;
- Closing a Programme
- Programme Office roles and services;
- Programme documentation and information flow;
- Guidance on adoption of MSP;
- Guidance on how to use the tranche and workstream concepts to structure more complex programmes;
- Hands on activities, discussions, role plays, quizzes and mind maps in every session to ensure you have absorbed MSP;
- Guidance on how to prepare for the Foundation Exam, with lots of practice
The Practitioner Seminar is a scenario based training course focusing on the application of MSP under different programme environments and scenarios. Review and revision sessions of all MSP elements are included throughout the training.
Exclusive to Inspiring Projects, we have developed a full set of Practitioner-style exam questions based on a realistic scenario, to provide even more opportunity to apply and learn MSP.
Certification Exam
The Foundation Exam is a 1 hour closed book exam. There are 75 multiple choice questions. The candidate must correctly answer 50% or more of the questions to pass the exam.
The Practitioner Exam is a 2½ hour, open manual, scenario based multiple choice exam. The candidate must provide responses to questions presented in the following styles:
- Classical multiple choice
- Yes/No
- Multiple response
- Matching
- Sequencing
- Assertion/Reason
There are 80 question lines worth 1 mark each, so the maximum score for the exam is 80 marks. The candidate must score 40 (50%) or more marks to pass the exam.
Candidates for the Practitioner Exam must have passed the Foundation Exam.
We conduct these exams on behalf of the relevant Examination Institute, subject to their terms and conditions.
Your course fee includes a “one time” examination cost for both exams.
Professional Development
Candidates who pass the Practitioner exam are entitled to style themselves as a “Registered MSP Practitioner” on CVs and business cards.
Successful completion of this course may entitle you to credits in various professional development programmes:
- For AIPM CPD points, check here;
- For PMI PDUs, click here
Follow-on Courses
We recommend that delegates who complete this course should proceed with one of our Agile courses.