Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) is a best-practice framework for delivering complex programmes in accordance with long term strategies. MSP was developed for and is owned by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), an Agency of the Government of the United Kingdom.
MSP was first released in 1999 in recognition of the need for greater links between an organization’s longer-term strategy, objectives and goals and the projects being undertaken by that organization.
The current, third, version of MSP was released in 2007 and demonstrated a significant advance in the maturity of programme management by expanding on the original concepts and introducing new tools and techniques.
MSP defines Programme Management as "...the action of carrying out the coordinated organization, direction and implementation of a dossier and transformation activities to achieve outcomes and realize benefits of strategic importance to the business".