MSP® Foundation & Practitioner
Course Overview
This MSP® Foundation and Practitioner Certification course provides an understanding of the principles, governance themes, and transformational flows defined in the MSP framework. The course advances your ability to engage with and meet the business requirements of your organization, preparing you for the MSP® Foundation and Practitioners exam.
Course Objectives
- Program management principles
- Program management processes
- Risk mitigation
- Governance Themes and Transformation Flows
- Issue management
- Quality control
- Stakeholder management
Course Prequisites
- There are no prerequisites for the MSP certification but candidates must pass the MSP Foundation-level exam to be eligible to take the MSP Practitioner exam
Target Audience
This MSP course is ideal for professionals employed in a program management role, senior project managers, program managers, operations managers, and quality assurance professionals.
Course Outline
Section 01: Introduction to Managing Successful Programs
Lesson 01: MSP Course Introduction
1 Course Introduction
2 Course Objectives
3 MSP-Introduction
4 About APMG and AXELOS
5 Value of MSP to Professionals
6 Value of MSP to Organisations
7 Updates in 2011 Edition of MSP
8 Requirements for Certification
9 MSP Examination
10 MSP Exam Pattern
11 About This Tutorial
12 Mapping of Lessons
13 Advanced Practitioner Exam (MSP®)
14 MSP Advanced Practitioner
15 MSP Advanced Practitioner (contd.)
16 Conclusion
Lesson 02: Introduction to MSP
Lesson 03: Using MSP
Lesson 04 – Programme Management Principles
Lesson 05 – Governance Themes Overview
Lesson 6 – Governance Themes and Transformation Flows
Lesson 07 – Transformational Flow Overview
Section 02: Governance Themes
Lesson 01: Program Organization
Lesson 02 – The Programme Board
Lesson 03 – Programme Organisation within the Transformational Flow
Lesson 04 – Vision
Lesson 05 – Vision and Transformational Flow
Lesson 06 – MSP Overview of Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement
Lesson 07 – Stakeholder Engagement Process
Lesson 08 – Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement within the Transformational Flow
Lesson 09 – Benefits Management and Categorisation
Lesson 10 – Benefits Management Cycle
Lesson 11 – Benefits Management and Transformational Flow
Lesson 12 – An Overview of Blueprint Design and Delivery
Lesson 13 – Designing the Blueprint Delivery
Lesson 14 – Blueprint Design and Delivery within the Transformational Flow
Lesson 15 – Overview of Planning and Control
Lesson 16 – Planning and Control Activities
Lesson 17 – Planning and Control within the Transformational Flow
Lesson 18 – Information Documents Used in Planning and Control
Lesson 19 – Introduction to Business Case
Lesson 20 – Business Case Review and Roles
Section 03: Governance Theme Contd.
Lesson 01 – Overview of Risk and Issue Management
Lesson 2 – Introduction to Risk Management
Lesson 3 – Introduction to Issue Management
Lesson 4 – Risk and Issue Management within the Transformational Flow
Lesson 5 – Quality and Assurance Management
Lesson 06 – Scope of Programme Quality
Lesson 07 – Overview of Assurance Management
Lesson 08 – Quality and Assurance Management within the Transformational Flow
Section 04: Transformational flow
Lesson 01 – Identifying a Programme
Lesson 2 – Identifying a Programme-Roles and Documents Used
Lesson 3 – Defining a Programme-Steps 1 to 4
Lesson 04 – Defining a Programme-Steps 5 to 12
Lesson 05 – Defining a Programme-Steps 13 to 17
Lesson 06 – Managing the Tranches-Steps 1 to 7
Lesson 07 – Managing the Tranches-Steps 8 to 13
Lesson 08 – Overview of Delivering the Capability
Lesson 09 – Roles Involved in Delivering the Capability
Lesson 10 – Realising the Benefits Step1
Lesson 11 – Realising the Benefits Step 2
Lesson 11 – Realising the Benefits Step 3
Lesson 12 – Closing a Programme
Lesson 13 – Steps in Closing a Programme
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