MSP®: Achieving Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training

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.

MSP®: Achieving Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training Delivery Methods

• In-Person

• Online

MSP®: Achieving Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training Course Benefits

• Prepare for 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

MSP Certification Training Outline

Important Course and Certification Information

Recommended Experience

• The reading materials (Learning Tree Pre-Course Study Guide and Managing Successful Programmes 5th Edition eBook ) are provided to you prior to your training course.
• We recommend you read the book prior to your course
• 2 hours of home study each evening are required

Certification Information

Wouldn’t you like to sit your exam knowing that you could have another shot if the outcome is not what you expected? With Learning Tree, now you can! This Learning Tree training course features the Take2 re-sit exam option. In the case of an unsuccessful result, you can retake the exam within six months of your first try.

Module 1: Introduction to MSP

• Adhering to MSP Principles
• Defining the processes and themes

Module 2: 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

Module 3: 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

Module 4: 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

Module 5: 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

Module 6: Preparing for the Foundation and Practitioner Exams

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