The false statement here is that the SRO acts as the Project Executive on all the Project Boards. The MSP Practitioner explicitly clarifies that the SRO does not take on this project-level responsibility. Instead, the SRO’s role is to provide overall accountability for the programme and to ensure the programme delivers its intended outcomes and benefits.
The SRO holds a senior position with enough authority to make decisions and secure resources and is typically a peer of the Sponsoring Group to ensure alignment with corporate strategy. The Sponsoring Group appoints the SRO to oversee the programme’s governance and delivery effectively.
Project Executives, in contrast, represent individual projects within the programme and report to the SRO via the programme governance structure. They focus on delivering specific project outputs, while the SRO’s responsibility is to coordinate these efforts to achieve strategic benefits.
This distinction is vital to MSP’s governance architecture: it prevents the SRO from being burdened with operational project detail, allowing focus on strategic oversight, stakeholder engagement, and benefit realization.
The MSP Practitioner states: “SRO doesn’t act as a project representative,” underscoring the clear division between programme and project governance to maintain effective control and leadership throughout the programme lifecycle.
