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Core Cabinet Office Material

The title listed below is the core publication for MSP. For a more detailed synopsis of the publication, please click on the image or title to view the listing on the Best Management Practice's Publications Library. This title is available in various formats.

Managing Successful Programmes - 2011 EditionManaging Successful Programmes - 2011 Edition

The 2011 version of the guide combines rigour and flexibility, helping all organizations - public sector and private, large and small - achieve successful outcomes from their programme management time and time again. With change a pressing reality for all organizations, successful programme management has never been more vital to success.



MSP is accessible by programme teams and organizations as well as by individual practitioners. It will help programme management practitioners improve their decision making at programme level and become better at implementing beneficial change.

Features of the 2011 edition include:

  • Clearer guidance on how a programme deals with multiple Business Change Managers
  • More about programme Tranches: when they may overlap and the risks in doing so
  • Completely revised chapters for Benefits Management, Quality and Assurance Management and Risk and Issue Management to be programme centric and for consistency with other Best Management Practice guidance
  • New guidance covering integrated assurance has been added to the Quality and Assurance Management chapter
  • The theme chapters now have a section on how the theme interacts with the transformational flow
  • More guidance on Configuration Management particularly in relation to managing issues
  • Consistent use of terminology and concepts for the RACI tables, roles and responsibilities, and the distinction between strategies and plans.


Managing Successful ProgrammesManaging Successful Programmes - 2007 Edition

Combining rigour and flexibility, MSP helps all organisations - public sector and private, large and small - achieve successful outcomes from their programme management time and time again. With change a pressing reality for all organisations, successful programme management has never been more vital to success.


Key features:

  • Extensively updated and revised, MSP manual reflects the latest changes and developments in best practice along with practical advice
  • Simplified structure and new layout highlighting the guidance's key themes
  • Key changes cover: clearer distinction between programmes and projects; programmes in the context of the overall portfolio of business change; benefits realisation; governance; transformation of the business and transition to operations; stakeholders; leadership; competencies and behaviours.

View the P3M3 maturity model.

View the relevant Glossary and Acronyms for MSP at the Best Management Practice website.

OGC (former owner of Best Management Practice) and its functions have moved into the Cabinet Office part of HM Government - www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

Material produced since the move has revised copyright and trademark statements reflecting Cabinet Office ownership.

Best Management Practice guidance that existed at the time of the move will continue to reference OGC until it is updated. Over time all Best Management Practice guidance will be updated and will then fully reflect Cabinet Office ownership and use the updated statements and references where applicable.