Book description
Programme management is the coordinated organisation and implementation of a portfolio of projects and activities that help your business achieve its strategic objectives. Good programme management is the key to managing transformational change and, in today's business environment, the organisations that can transform themselves are more likely to succeed.
Managing Successful Programmes For Dummies is your plain-English guide to implementing and using the proven MSP method. It provides a structured framework that helps you coordinate your projects and achieve your goals. The book takes you through every step of programme management and inside you'll find:
What's involved in a programme - and how it differs from a project!
An overview of the structure of MSP
Full explanations of MSP principles, governance themes and transformational flow
Planning and making a business case for your programme
The key roles and responsibilities in programme management
The lifecycle of a programme - from conception to delivery
Quality and risk management in your programme
Working with stakeholders
All about the MSP Qualifications
Table of contents
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- Introduction
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Part I: Getting Started with Managing Successful Programmes
- Chapter 1: Introducing Programme Management: Projects, Programmes and MSP
- Chapter 2: Understanding What's Involved in a Programme
- Chapter 3: Identifying a Programme
- Chapter 4: Focusing on the Principles of Programme Management
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Part II: Moving Forward with Managing Your Programme
- Chapter 5: Creating Your Programme's Vision
- Chapter 6: Building Up a Blueprint
- Chapter 7: Details, Details: Honing Your Programme
- Chapter 8: Documenting the Business Case for Your Programme
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Part III: Managing Multiple Projects
- Chapter 9: Organizing a Programme: Who does What
- Chapter 10: Planning and Controlling Your Programme
- Chapter 11: Managing Risk in Your Programme
- Chapter 12: Resolving Issues and Keeping Track of Detail
- Chapter 13: Achieving Quality in Your Programme
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Part IV: Out in Business as Usual: Exploiting Projects’ Capabilities
- Chapter 14: Keeping ’em Sweet: Engaging Your Stakeholders
- Chapter 15: Getting Started with Benefits Management: Modelling the Benefits
- Chapter 16: Reaping the Benefits: Measuring Your Outcomes
- Chapter 17: Leading People Through Change as the Programme Delivers
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Part V: Step by Step in Your Programme
- Chapter 18: Managing a Tranche
- Chapter 19: Managing Projects within a Programme: Delivering Capability
- Chapter 20: All Change: Realizing the Benefits through Transition
- Chapter 21: Closing a Programme
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Part VI: The Part of Tens
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Chapter 22: Ten Reasons Why Change Initiatives Go Wrong
- Failing to Clarify whether a Change Initiative is a Programme or a Project
- Gaining Insufficient Board-Level Support
- Suffering from Weak Leadership
- Forming Unrealistic Expectations of Organizational Capacity and Capability
- Focusing Insufficiently on Benefits
- Working Without a Real Picture of Future Capability
- Muddling through with a Poor Vision
- Neglecting to Change the Culture
- Allowing Stakeholders to be Unengaged
- Drowning in Data
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Chapter 23: Ten Reasons to Run an Initiative as a Programme
- Co-ordinating Complex Activities
- Organizing Scarce Resources
- Harmonising Design Interfaces Among Projects
- Dealing with Economies of Scale Among Projects
- Creating a Framework in an Uncertain Environment
- Handling High Risk across Multi-Projects
- Coping with a Contracting Universe
- Ordering Change in Business as Usual
- Managing Multiple Stakeholder Groups
- Funding a Busy Business Case
- Chapter 24: Ten Great Ways to Manage Benefits
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Chapter 22: Ten Reasons Why Change Initiatives Go Wrong
- Part VII: Appendixes
- About the Author
- Cheat Sheet
- More Dummies Products
Product information
- Title: MSP For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781118746400
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