Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) provides a structured framework to improve practices and services for organizations. The benefits of program management include: alignment between strategy and projects; management support to focus on business objectives; and more efficient resource management through project prioritization and integration. It also allows for better risk, benefit, and change management.
1. Benefits of Program Management
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) creates a structured framework for organizations
of all sizes and from all sectors to improve practices, offer better services and more
effectively prepare for the future.The Managing Successful Programs guide lists the benefits
of program management as shown below.
01
Alignment between strategy and project levels
Effective response to strategic initiatives by filling the gap
between strategies and projects
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02
Management support
Keeping activities focused on the business change bjectives
by providing a framework for senior management to direct
and manage the change process
03
Resource management
More efficient management of resources by providing a
mechanism for project prioritization and project integration
04
Risk management
Better management of risk because the wider context is
understood and explicitly acknowledged
05
Benefit realization
Help to achieve real business benefits through a formal
process of benefit identification, management, realization
and measurement
06
Management control
Improved control through a framework within which the
costs of introducing new infrastructure, standards and
quality regimes can be justified, measured and assessed
07
Management control
Improved control through a framework within which the
costs of introducing new infrastructure, standards and
quality regimes can be justified, measured and assessed
08
Business operations
Clarification of how new business operations will deliver
improved performance by defining the desired benefits and
linking these to the achievement of new working practices
08
Business operations
Clarification of how new business operations will deliver
improved performance by defining the desired benefits and
linking these to the achievement of new working practices
09
Management of Business Case
More effective management of the Business Case by
building and maintaining a Business Case that clearly
compares current business operations with the more
beneficial future business operations
10
Co-ordination and control
More efficient co-ordination and control of the often complex
range of activities by clearly defining roles and
responsibilities for managing the Project Portfolio and
realizing the benefits delivered by the program
11
Transition management
Smooth transition from current to future business operations
through the clear recognition and responsibility for preparing
the organization for migration to new ways of working
12
Consistency
Achieving a consistent system of new or amended policies,
standards, and work practices through the integrated
definition, planning, delivery and assurance of the required
changes