Programme Strategy, Governance and Plans
The purpose of programme strategy, programme governance, programme plans and the PDCA cycle for risks and issues.
How to prepare for MSP
Fix the framework vocabulary first, connect themes to management products and roles, then use scenario evidence to judge Practitioner actions and tailoring.
Core concepts
Concept 1
The programme strategy integrates the approaches used to govern and manage the programme.
Exam cue: Use strategy for enduring approaches, governance for decision and control arrangements, and plans for scheduled action.
Concept 2
Programme governance provides the authority, accountability and control system; programme plans translate strategy into coordinated action.
Exam cue: For PDCA, identify whether the scenario is designing, implementing, reviewing or adapting a response.
Concept 3
Plan-Do-Check-Act supports iterative control of risks and issues rather than one-time identification.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating the programme strategy as a schedule of delivery activities.
Guardrail: A plausible local action is not correct if it loses programme purpose, accountability, evidence or value.
Stopping risk and issue work after planning a response.
Guardrail: A plausible local action is not correct if it loses programme purpose, accountability, evidence or value.
Memory anchors
Programme Strategy, Governance and Plans: core
The programme strategy integrates the approaches used to govern and manage the programme.
Programme Strategy, Governance and Plans: exam cue
Use strategy for enduring approaches, governance for decision and control arrangements, and plans for scheduled action.
Programme Strategy, Governance and Plans: avoid
Treating the programme strategy as a schedule of delivery activities.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
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