During the transformational flow step ‘Defining the programme’, the programme team creates the suite of agreed-to management strategies and controls that form the Governance Baseline. The mandate and preparation plan are produced earlier (‘Identifying the programme’) and benefit measures are detailed later within the benefits management strategy once the programme vision and blueprint are confirmed.

A. Programme Mandate – input to, not output from, Defining; produced in Identifying the programme.

C. Programme preparation plan – also generated in Identifying the programme to resource the definition work.

D. Benefits measures – derived after governance is set, within the benefits management strategy; not listed as a standalone output of Defining.

1. Axelos. “Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)

5th ed.” TSO

2020

Section 5.3 ‘Defining the programme’

Table 5.3 Outputs – lists “Governance baseline”.

2. Axelos. “Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)

2011 ed.” TSO

2011

Ch. 11 ‘Defining the Programme’

Table 11.1 Products created – includes “Governance baseline” and excludes mandate

preparation plan

benefit measures.