MSP® Practitioner Course 5th Edition

In the first module, you will be introduced to the documents required throughout the course, the format of the course and the format and question styles of the MSP® Practitioner exam.

The second session reviews the seven principles that underpin MSP®, including the programme strategy, the programme plans and the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle.

The seven MSP® principles covered are:

• Lead with purpose
• Collaborate across boundaries
• Deal with ambiguity
• Align with priorities
• Deploy diverse skills
• Realise measurable benefits
• Bring pace and value.

The MSP® principles are universal, meaning they apply to every programme. They are also self-validating – demonstrated by practical use – and empowering, meaning they enable practitioners to reinforce the most critical factors for programme success

This module will review the MSP® themes and look in more detail at the organisation theme. You will look at the key documents and how they support the organisation theme, the focus of the key roles, the organisation structure and the individual roles.

In this module, you will look at the design theme. During the session you will build on the Foundation knowledge and look in more detail at:

• The focus of the roles
• Benefits and the types of benefits
• Benefits profiles and benefits maps
• Risk and risk prioritisation
• The target operating model
• The current and future state, and gap analysis.

In this module, you will review the justification theme. Here, you will look at how the key documents support the justification theme and go on to review the focus of the roles, investment appraisals, financial contingency, and business case validation.

Module six covers the structure theme. You will first review the key documents that support the structure theme and then move on to look at:

• The focus of the roles
• Establishing the appropriate pace
• Delivery planning
• Multimodal delivery
• Dependencies
• Benefits realisation planning
• Resourcing approaches.

In this module you will cover the knowledge theme, including the knowledge and learning approach, and the information approach in the programme strategy.

You will then move on to review: the focus of the roles, key concepts, and information management.

Module eight looks at the assurance theme. You will be familiarised with the key supporting documents for this theme, such as:

• The assurance approach in the programme strategy
• The assurance plan
• The focus of the roles
• The three lines of defence
• Assurance planning
• Success factors
• Assurance steps

This module will review the knowledge theme. Firstly, you will look at the key documents that support this theme, which are:

• The decision-making approach
• The issue resolution approach
• The risk response approach in the programme strategy
• The decisions register
• The issue register.

For the next step you will then go on to look at the focus of the roles, decision points, issue resolution, risk management and responses, and data gathering and reporting.

In the final session you will review the seven processes defined in MSP®, which are:

• Identify the programme
• Design the outcomes
• Plan progressive delivery
• Deliver the capabilities
• Embed the outcomes
• Evaluate new information
• Close the programme

The module ends with a process Sudoku, exercises and a summary.