Managing Successful Programmes
About this book
The official MSP manual, describing how to run a programme as coordinated projects and change activity aimed at an outcome rather than a deliverable. The fifth edition is organised into principles, themes and processes, with themes covering how a programme is designed, justified, structured and assured, and processes describing the lifecycle from identifying a programme through to closing it. It gives particular attention to the target operating model, to benefits management, and to the gap between an output a project hands over and a benefit the organisation actually realises. The material on programme organisation is useful even outside MSP, because it is precise about who decides what. Read it if your organisation runs a programme office, or if you are preparing for the MSP examinations.
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Related concepts
- Benefits realisationThe discipline of obtaining the improvement for which the money was approved, which is a different thing from delivering the output, and which mostly happens after the project has closed.
- The project management officeA standing function that supports, controls or directs project work, and the question of which of those three it is, since that settles almost every argument about whether it is useful.