MSP Practitioner
Course Overview
MSP Practitioner is a 1½-day non-residential course, which will consolidate and add to the knowledge and experience gained in the Programme Management Foundation course to take you to the level required to sit the optional OGC's Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner level exam. The course concentrates on an understanding of the Transformational Flow, the production of key MSP governance theme documents, Resource Management, Benefits Management, Quality Management and Risk Management Strategies plus significant preparation for the Practitioner exam.
The MSP Practitioner exam is a 2½-hour, open book exam taken on day 2 of the course.
This course will be accredited by the APMG who are the examining body for MSP and responsible for all aspects of the provision of exams including setting, marking, feedback and appeals. Scoll Methods, as an accredited training organisation, acts as its agent in providing administrative facilities.
What You Will Learn
Programme Definition
- Developing the Programme Definition from a Programme Brief
- Developing programme Governance Strategies
- Programme Roles - Responsibilities, Skills & Attributes
- Mapping and defining Benefits
Programme Planning
- Roles and responsibilities in planning
- The planning process
- Developing a Resource Management Strategy
- Developing a Monitoring & Control Strategy
Programme - Project Interface
- Handling Issues
- Managing Risks
- Handling Quality problems
- Handling change with a Change Authority
- Benefits realisation and review
- Programme audit
Managing a Successful Programme
- Specific site issues
- Fundamental principles
- Exam preparation
Case Study
- APMG Programme Scenario
- Enhancement or review of sample key MSP documents
- Working in pairs or syndicate groups
Exam Preparation
- Working on APMG sample Objectively Marked Exam papers
- Individual practice
- Exam feedback
Pre-Requisites
The Scoll Methods Programme Management (MSP) Foundation course is a mandatory pre-requisite for attending this course.
A 60% pass mark in the MSP Foundation exam is a pre-requisite for sitting the MSP Practitioner exam.
Pre-Course Preparation
We suggest that you refresh your Foundation course knowledge by reading through your course notes and the MSP 2007 manual – ‘Managing Successful Programmes’.
The detailed case study information pack will be dispatched to you prior to the course with which you will need to familiarise yourself since this is the basis for the Practitioner exam scenario.
Examination Details
MSP Practitioner exam is designed to test your understanding of the basic concepts of MSP. This is a 2½-hour, open-book, Objective Test consisting of 9 equally weighted questions (all of which must be answered) on a given, unseen scenario. You must get 50% of the marks in order to pass. This exam is taken on day 2 of the course. The types of question that you will complete include multiple choice, confirming if statements made about the scenario are correct or not, placing proposed options into the sequence suggested by the MSP method, and stating whether assertions made about the scenario match with reasons provided to explain the assertion.
Related Courses
The 2½-day MSP Foundation course is the pre-requisite to this course. It provides you with sufficient understanding and knowledge in the processes and governance themes of the OGC's Programme Management methodology (MSP 2007) to act as a Programme Manager for a programme with a coherent projects dossier or to act as a member of a Programme Office.
The 5-day MSP Combined course is the MSP Foundation course combined with the MSP Practitioner & Advanced Practitioner course, for delegates who wish to complete the training within a week at a cost effective price.
