The Transformational Flow
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The Transformational Flow: example questions & answers
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A CEO issues a brief mandate to digitise customer services without further detail. A team is now translating this into initial scope, outline benefits, and a recommendation on whether to proceed to detailed design. Which MSP process is being carried out?
- AIdentify the programme - translating a mandate into a programme brief and confirming sufficient justification to proceed✓
- BDeliver the capabilities - coordinating the projects that build the outputs the programme has already approved and funded
- CClose the programme - confirming the outcomes have been achieved and formally disbanding the programme organisation and its board
- DDesign the outcomes - specifying the future state the programme is intended to create
Answer: 'Identify the programme' translates an initial mandate into a programme brief and confirms there is enough justification to invest in detailed design, exactly the activity described.
A programme brief has been approved and initial justification confirmed, but a board member insists the SRO should already have produced the full target operating model before the brief was even signed off. Why is this request inconsistent with the MSP lifecycle's sequencing?
- AThe board member is right; the target operating model is an input to the programme brief
- BThe target operating model is a product of design the outcomes, which follows identify the programme once sufficient justification exists to invest in detailed design✓
- CThe target operating model is produced in plan progressive delivery, once the delivery plan and tranches are agreed
- DIdentify the programme and design the outcomes happen in parallel with no defined order
Answer: The MSP lifecycle sequences 'identify the programme' (establishing the mandate and initial justification) before 'design the outcomes' (which produces the detailed target operating model); demanding the full model before the brief is approved reverses this sequence. ('Transformational flow' was the 4th-edition name for the lifecycle.)
A programme mandate arrives from the board with only a one-page description of the desired change and no detail on scope, benefits or governance. What is the immediate next step according to the MSP lifecycle?
- AClose the programme, since the mandate is insufficiently detailed
- BEmbed the outcomes straight away, based purely on the mandate's high-level description alone
- CIdentify the programme - develop the mandate into a programme brief with enough detail to confirm justification for further investment✓
- DDeliver the capabilities immediately using the mandate as the specification
Answer: A brief, high-level mandate is the normal starting point for 'identify the programme', which develops it into a programme brief providing enough definition and justification to proceed.
A programme's initial governance arrangements, high-level timescale, and outline business case are being established for the first time, based on the approved mandate, before any detailed future-state design work begins. Which MSP process does this describe?
- APlan progressive delivery
- BDesign the outcomes
- CEvaluate new information
- DIdentify the programme✓
Answer: Establishing initial governance, outline business case and confirming sufficient justification from the mandate, ahead of detailed design, is the defining activity of 'identify the programme'.