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The Aspire Europe MSP 2007 material is the first pass the  accreditation by the APM Group. With the manual now having twice as many words as the 2003 version, training organisations have had a major task to over haul their material and bring up to the new standards.

The APM Group impose tough standards for accreditation, and even though we were at the forefront of the development of the new Managing Successful Programme manual, it still took us a couple of goes to pass the accreditation. The major issue that all of us have faced is the pedantic approach the OGC take to having their copyright preserved - our material mentions their copyright around 100 times - very interesting for the training audience !

Robert Cole has become the 3rd OGC and APM Group Registered Consultant for Aspire Europe. He underwent a grueling 2 hour accreditation process involved the APM Group and the Institute of Business Consultants today.

Robert have been accredited to provide advice and guidance in the areas of MSP, Programme and Project Management and Change Management.

Robert has worked with Aspire for over 3 years and is currently on assignment to the Vehicle and Operator Standards Agency in Bristol, which he is supporting the implementation of Business Change Management to support MSP and PRINCE2

Robert joins Alan Summerfield and Rod Sowden on our list of accredited experts in these fields.

 

Rod Sowden’s White Paper outlining the main details of MSP has now been published by The Stationary Office. There are also useful papers covering the other OGC Best Practice tools, namely PRINCE2, ITIL and MoR

http://www.best-management-practice.com/Knowledge-Centre/White-Papers/

Andy, on passing a his MSP resit.

That’s great news, and a great relief! Thanks for your help and encouragement (both times). I really enjoyed the course, even though the full “Foundation to Practitioner” is very intense. In fact, if I hadn’t enjoyed the course, and your style and method of presentation, I probably wouldn’t have bothered with re-sitting the Practitioners exam again so soon!

Steve - equally happy

This is a great surprise! Many thanks for all your support and patience without which I am confident the result would have been very different.

We received the following interesting question from Chris Churchouse of BPUG, the answer to which may be of interest to others.

One of our speakers at our November conference is going to talk about governance. I was wondering if this is mentioned within MSP at all and, if so, where (or simply how often)? I’d search through an electronic copy of the text if I had one, which I don’t, but I thought you might be able to do this as co-author. 

 

It might be one of those things that is so big that you didn’t notice it – we called the Themes the Governance Themes to deal with it, we saw Governance as the framework that surrounds the Flow/lifecycle. At one stage, Organisation was called Governance but our view that this chapter was still the same as the old Organisation and that it was a much broader topic – hence Governance Themes. 

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Aspire Europe Ltd have run the first MSP07 course as an in-house event for one of their major clients, and are very happy to report that we maintained our 100% pass rate - just.

Our experiences are that the new Foundation questions are much tougher than the old ones, with some particularly obtuse questions being asked, however with everyone passing we must assume the Chief Examiner has done a good job, our average pass mark was well down on the MSP03 Foundation marks, but that is probably a good thing.