MSP®: Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner - Online

Length: 365 Day(s)     Cost:$1350 + GST

This online package includes:

  • Online courseware (12 month license)
  • Online proctored exam

The purpose of the Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner 5th Edition certification is to confirm whether you understand the MSP guidance well enough to apply it to your own work and are able to act as an informed member of a programme management team. You should also be capable of applying the MSP guidance in a relatively uncomplicated programme within an environment that uses MSP.

With change a pressing reality for all organisations, successful programme management has never been more vital to success. The MSP Guide comprises a set of principles and a set of processes for use when managing a programme. combining rigour and flexibility.

Online learning is a great way to study and our e-learning courses are interactive and engaging:

  • Learning is completely flexible to suit your busy schedule
  • The interactive online course consists of voice-over and animation to keep you engaged throughout the learning
  • You can access it anywhere in the world and take your exam online at a time that suits you best
  • The Practitioner e-learning will take around 15 hours to complete and includes a mock exam simulator with hundreds of past questions so you can really test yourself before going for the real exam
  • Our pass rates are well in excess of the national average (nearly 100%!), there is really no reason you should fail!

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  • Newly appointed programme managers
  • Project managers
  • Department managers
  • Business change managers
  • Senior responsible owners
  • Change implementers/enablers (e.g. portfolio, programme & project managers)
  • Experts and advisers working within a programme office
  • Specialist/governance roles involved in supporting programmes following the MSP guidance

Completion of the MSP Foundation course and exam.


Benefits for your organisation

  • Align corporate strategy, delivery mechanisms for change and the business-as-usual environment.
  • Continually monitor progress, assess performance and realise benefits.
  • Apply a common framework of understanding for all programmes.
  • Add value by focusing on benefits.
  • Encourage feedback in order to refine future strategies based on evidence from programmes.
Benefits for you
  • Utilise best practice in programme management to successfully deliver transformational change.
  • Carry out the coordinated organisation, direction and implementation of a dossier of projects and transformation activities to achieve outcomes and realise benefits of strategic importance to the business.
  • Manage the transition of the solutions developed and delivered by projects into the organisation’s operations, whilst maintaining performance and effectiveness.
  • Encourage realistic expectations of the organisational capacity and ability to change.
  • Lead business transformation accommodating high levels of complexity, ambiguity and risk.

Candidates will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Managing Successful Programmes and techniques. Key areas are:

  • Introduction to MSP®
  • Organisation & Programme Office
  • Vision
  • Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Benefits Management
  • Blueprint Design and Delivery
  • Planning & Control
  • The Business Case
  • Risk & Issue Management
  • Quality & Assurance Management
  • Transformational Flow
  • Examination Approaches