Posted on June 26, 2009

Programme Management Explained

Alan Harpham, Chairman of the APM Group, defines Programme Management as: "A set of related projects with a common strategic goal or aim." This is not to confuse Programme Management with Portfolio Management, which describes the management of...

Posted on June 7, 2009

What are your Job Prospects with MSP?

I have never yet encountered a student of Managing Successful Programmes who was on the course for fun. Everybody who trains in MSP wants a programme management career, and pretty much everybody who takes the MSP examinations is determined enough to...

Posted on June 7, 2009

Governance Themes in MSP

One key element of the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) methodology is the concept of Governance Themes. These nine themes constitute a governance or control framework for programme management. The MSP manual presents guidance for handling each...