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Welcoming the Refresh Project team to the Treasury John Stewart of OGC said, “Producing best practice isn’t something we can do as individuals. It’s about pooling together knowledge and experience from the business community. In producing this latest version of MSP we have all worked together across business sectors and even countries to draw out practices that contribute to organizational success.”

Richard Pharro, managing director of the MSP accreditation body APMG said: “Today’s launch of the new MSP Guide is very exciting because the world is talking about programmes. People see Programme Management as essential to delivering quality, value for money and change.  As we now live in an era of ceaseless change, trying to find a framework that helps us makes sense of it is like a quest for the Holy Grail. Having skimmed the book I don’t think it is the new Da Vinci Code but it is easy to read and more importantly, easy to follow.”

Author Geof Leigh said: “MSP like other OGC products is about best practice. Best practice moves on from time to time as organisations learn how to do things better. MSP is about programme management and transformational change. It’s more in its infancy than other methods like project management, so the amount of learning involved has been quite significant. The MSP Refresh team have really captured and distilled all of this best practice learning and encapsulated it in the new Guide.”

Susan Thompson, Programme Manager, North East NHS said, “The new manual focuses on Stakeholder Engagement and Benefits Realisation and emphasizes the importance of both in successful programme management. Introducing transformation flows rather than processes demonstrates how programme management is not a step by step process, rather an iterative set of activities that need to be combined and coordinated in order to be effective.”

Joceleyn Palmer, Project Manager, Avon IM&T Consortium, said “The (Advanced Practitioner) case study is good – it’s not too long, but it has enough complexity in it to really challenge your thinking.”

Susan Thompson said, “The Practitioner exam is not just about remembering key phrases from the manual, you really do need to apply a wider knowledge and understanding of MSP in order to achieve the required results.”

Del Shorley said, “It was the first three dimensional multiple choice exam I’ve ever done.  I didn’t realise that a multiple choice exam could make your brain ache quite so much!”