What is MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)?
MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) is a framework for programme management that provides best practices and guidance for organisations to successfully deliver complex and transformational initiatives. It offers a structured approach to managing multiple projects and activities within a program to achieve strategic goals and benefits realization.
Key Components of MSP include the following:
- Principles: MSP outlines several guiding principles, such as focusing on benefits realization, defining a clear program vision, and actively engaging stakeholders.
- Governance themes: It emphasizes the importance of governance themes like leadership and accountability, program organisation, and risk and issue management.
- Transformational flow: MSP defines a set of processes and activities organized into a transformational flow, which includes identifying a program, defining it, delivering the outcomes, and realizing benefits.
- Roles and responsibilities: MSP defines roles and responsibilities for program management, including the program manager, business change manager, and senior responsible owner (SRO).
- Benefits realization: A central aspect of MSP is ensuring that programs deliver the intended benefits and align with the organisation's strategic objectives.
MSP is widely recognized and used by organisations worldwide to improve their program management practices, enhance project alignment with strategic goals, and increase the likelihood of successful program outcomes. It is not a methodology but a framework that can be tailored to suit an organisation's specific needs and context.
Last edited on: 10 Jun 2025
