
Registered Office: ILX Group, 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE. To take a look at our current selection of MSP® courses, click here Close the programme and ensure the 'end goal' has been achieved.Manage the transition between the 'old' and 'new' ways of working, ensuring benefit.Monitor and co-ordinate the projects within a programme to a successful conclusion.Define the programme, and specify how the organisation will be different afterwards.Identify the aim of the programme and envisaged benefits to the organisation.Audit a programme to ensure standards are being followed.Keep up to date information which tracks the continually changing environment.Ensure that all interested parties (the stakeholders) are involved.Ensure that the organisation benefits from undertaking the programme.Plan the work in a way which achieves results.Organise people to ensure responsibilities and lines of communication are clear.In other words, without Programme Management, the projects might still be able to deliver their particular outcomes but these would not be co-ordinated or integrated into the achievement of a strategic business goal.ĪXELOS Ltd owns the best practice guide on Programme Management called Managing Successful Programmes.

The concept of a programme is that it should deliver more than the 'sum of its parts'.


There is a close link between Programme Management and project management because the programme is made up of projects and is only successful if the projects within it succeed. The objectives, or goals, of the programme are typically at a strategic level so that the organisation can achieve benefits and improvements in its business operation. Programme Management and Project ManagementĪ programme is made up of a specific set of related projects identified by an organisation that together will deliver some defined objective, or set of objectives, for the organisation. A programme is made up of a specific set of projects identified by an organisation that together will deliver some defined objective, or set of objectives, for the organisation. Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) is a methodology that comprises a set of principles and processes for use when managing a programme. LEARN ABOUT MSP® IN 60 SECONDS! VIEW OUR 60 SECOND VIDEO TO SEE HOW YOU CAN BENEFIT! APMG-International Better Business Cases™ĪPMG International Project Planning & Control™ (PPC)ĪPMG-International Finance for Non Financial Managers™Ĭertified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®Ĭertified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®)
