MSP® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited
ILX Group’s accredited MSP® Foundation and Practitioner Online learning contains all the training and materials you need to attain both the Foundation and Practitioner qualifications in MSP®– without attending a classroom! The course combines interactive multimedia training, practical exercises, mock exam simulators and paper based exercises.
This course will provide you with the knowledge and understanding of the scope, content and structure of the MSP® method required to fully prepare you for the MSP® Foundation and Practitioner examinations.
Benefits
The MSP® guidance benefits the organisation and the individual alike.
- Upon completion of the course, you will be a more effective member of a programme team, understanding how your role fits into the wider picture, and how you can help contribute more effectively to the realisation of strategically aligned benefits.
- By helping to correctly manage a programme your organisation can reduce the level of risk involved and protect your investment in change. The MSP® guidance provides you with the framework to effectively manage transformational change, ensuring it’s governance themes and processes are applied appropriately to suit your organisation’s circumstances.
- The MSP® Foundation and Practitioner Online learning has been accredited and fully prepares you for the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) Foundation and Practitioner examinations.
Accreditation
Foundation
- Multiple choice
- 75 questions per paper with one mark available per question
- Five questions to be trial and not counted in scores
- 35 marks required to pass (out of 70 available) – 50%
- 60 minutes duration
- Closed-book
Practitioner
- Objective testing
- Eight questions per paper,80 marks available in total
- 40 marks required to pass – 50%
- Two-and-a-half hours duration
- Open-book (only the MSP® guide is allowed)
Target Audience
- Newly appointed Programme Managers who may have a background in managing project but have not previously operated in a transformational change environment
- Senior Managers who will ‘sponsor’ the change, or perhaps be held accountable for its success
- Operational Managers charged with embedding the change in their area
- Operational staff undertaking a role in the programme or related projects
- Programme office staff (PMO) wishing to build upon their project management knowledge
- Experienced Project Managers
- Those seeking a professional qualification in programme management
What’s included?
- 12 months online access to the accredited MSP® Foundation and Practitioner course
- Full tutor support plus many additional materials to help put MSP® into practice
- MSP® Foundation and Practitioner mock exam revision tool
- MSP® Process map
Optional extras
- Official “Managing Successful Programmes” manual
- MSP® Foundation and Practitioner exams – Valid for 12 months from purchase date. Exam can be taken online or at a location from our extensive schedule
Learning Synopsis
COURSE INTROD UCTION
- Course objectives
- What is MSP?
- The MSP examination requirements
INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT
- Changing vs Running the business
- Difference between programme & projects
- The programme environment
- Drivers for change
- Types of programme
- When to use a programme approach
PROCESSES & PROGRAMME INFORMATION
- Sequence of processes in the programme lifecycle(‘transformational flow’)
- Key inputs and outputs of each process
- Purpose of each process
- Key activities associated with each process
PROGRAMME ORGANISATION
- Differences between leadership and management
- Typical programme organisation structures
- Key responsibilities and attributes of the key programme roles
- Functions of a programme office
LEADERSHIP & STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
- Stakeholder management vs Engagement
- Stakeholder analysis - Interests and influence
- Stakeholder engagement strategy
- Programme communications plan
PLANNING & CONTROL
- Development of a programme plan and projects dossier
- Tranches vs Workstreams
- Dependency types and priorities
- Controlling projects and transitionResource management
- Monitoring and control strategy
THE BUSINESS CASE
- Programme mandate and the outline business case
- Business case in the transformational flow
- Elements of the business case
- Areas of focus of the key MSP roles
BENEFITS MANAGEMENT
- Importance to programme management
- The benefits management cycle
- Benefits identification and categorisation
- Benefit mapping and profiling
- Benefits management strategy and realisation plan
- Areas of focus
VISION
- Vision statement developmen
- Characteristics of a good vision statement
- Areas of focus
BLUEPRINT DESIGN & DELIVERY
- The POTI model
- Intermediate and final future states
- Areas of focus
RISK & ISSUE MANAGEMENT
- Purpose of risk management strategy and issue management strategy
- Risk management cycle
- Programme and project level risk escalation
- Issue management cycle
- Configuration management
- Change controlAreas of focus
QUALITY & ASSURANCE MANAGEMENT
- Quality versus assuranceScope of programme quality
- Integrated assurance principles
- Assurance management techniques
MOCK EXAM SIMULATOR
- Randomised MSP Foundation level exam questions
MSP PRACTITIONER STREAM 1
- Introduction to MSP Practitioner
- MSP process model walkthrough
- Governance & principles
- MSP programme scenario
- Programme organisation simulation
- Business case simulation
- Risk management simulation
- Benefits mapping simulation
- Creating a blueprint simulation
- Quality management simulation
- Planning and control simulation
- Exercises
STREAM 2
- Exam technique
- Marking up the MSP manual
- Practitioner exam simulator
- Practice exam papers
Also includes...
- Comprehensive course notes
- Training guide
- Guide to the exam
- Full technical support
All MSP®Foundation Online, MSP®Practitioner Online courses on this page are offered by ILX Group an ATO of AXELOS Limited
MSP® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.
