The 2011 Edition of MSP 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.It is accessible by programme teams and organisations as well as by individual practitioners. And will help programme management practitioners improve their decision making at programme level and become better at implementing beneficial change. Key Features of MSP include: • Describes the best practice approach to designing and running programmes to implement business change. • Identifies the principles behind good programme management and how these are put into practice through the application of themes, such as Benefits Management, that run through a process of transformational flow from identifying a programme through managing stages of delivery to closing it down. • Illustrated with real life examples and helpful tips for putting best practice into real life situations. • The guidance has been revised to capture the latest thinking on programme management best practice. • The sections on quality, benefits and risk and issue management have been significantly overhauled to give them a better programme focus. • Includes new guidance covering assurance and integrated assurance