Posted by Kevin Brady on Sun 29th June 2008 at 08:59 PM, Filed in
MSP stands for Managing Successful Programmes and is the Office of Government & Commerce’s own portfolio of policies and standards setting out what “good” looks like with respect to programme management. Together with the APMG (Association of Project Management Group) these good /best practices have been encapsulated into a framework and published by the TSO in a book entitled “Managing Successful Programmes”. This book is now the basis for a series of APMG qualifications pitched at different levels – Foundation (knowledge test), Practitioner (ability to apply MSP to real world situations, Advanced (ability to design and execute an MSP Programme).
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Click – Onshore /Offshore Process Map – to download Zipped PowerPoint File.
Looking at some of the rankings on Google of some of my old posts it would appear over the last year that I have become one of the main critics of Scrum /Agile:-
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Mon 7th April 2008 at 12:49 PM, Filed in
Its rare for me to go off message please see blog objectives but I am currently very unhappy with our current London Mayor (Ken Livingston) and hearing about money being wasted and corruption in his administration I am posting this campaign promotion for Boris Johnson who I hope will be elected Mayor in London during May of this year.
Fingers crossed 
So what does Boris stand for and what is his back ground which would make him a great choice for London ?
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Click -Communications Plan Template - to download Word document
A communications plan, after the establishment of risk and issue processes and procedures, is the next most important set of processes and procedures to get established if you want to give your project the best chance of success.
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Tue 1st April 2008 at 09:02 AM, Filed in Templates
Click – Project Expectations Statement Template – to download Word document.
If you’re having difficulties getting your PID (make this a link to the PID template) (Project Initiation Document) fleshed out because the client does not have a clear business case or idea of exactly what they want you to deliver then perhaps the attached PES document might come in useful.
