Richard Butler
Solicitor, Honorary Professor, Nottingham Law School
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Time | - | Activity | Type of activity |
0915 - 0930 | 1 | Registration | - |
0930 - 1000 | 2 | Introduction to Project Management: Basic concepts and introduction to applicability in the legal environment; What is Project Management?; What does the Client Want?; The Time, Cost, Quality Triangle. | Tutor led session |
1000 - 1030 | 3 | Time, Cost, Quality: Can we escape from the inevitability of the TCQ triangle? | Group Work session |
1030 - 1115 | 4 | Scoping the Project: The stages of a Project. Scoping the Project Professional conduct considerations. Deliverables Benefits of clear deliverables. A structured approach to deliverables. What is the overall objective of the job? What are the deliverables? Are you working to implement a specific solution, or to solve a problem? How is the customer going to measure success at the end of the job? What, from the customer's viewpoint, can flex? Are there any other constraints on the job? How does your client want to work with you? Are there any implicit requirements, assumptions or needs that the client has that are not defined in the scope or requirements documents? Conclusion. | Tutor led session |
1115 - 1130 | 5 | Coffee | - |
1130 - 1200 | 6 | Scoping exercise: Professional conduct; risks; making a profit; drafting caveats | Group Work session |
1200 - 1245 | 7 | Techniques of Project Management: Product Breakdown Structures. Work Breakdown Structures. Precedence. Bar charts ("Gantt Charts"). PERT Diagrams. Critical Path. Relevance to Legal Case Management | Tutor led session |
1245 - 1345 | 8 | Lunch | - |
1345 - 1500 | 9 | Network analysis: Delegates will prepare PERT diagrams and perform network analysis on the expected litigation using tutor as consultant. | Group Work session |
1500 - 1515 | 10 | Tea | - |
1545 - 1615 | 11 | Cost budgeting: Project Costs. Introduction. Cost monitoring. Cost planning. The cashflow curve. The cashflow envelope. Resource smoothing. | Tutor led session |
1615 - 1700 | 12 | Cost budgeting: Delegates will budget expected cost using tutor as consultant | Group Work session |
1700 - 1715 | 13 | MS Project: The tutor will outline the way in which standard software can be used to do the donkey work. | Tutor led session |
1715 - 1730 | 14 | Reflection: Which parts of this are of use to us and what needs to be done to take advantage of techniques and products available? | Tutor led session |
1730 | 15 | END OF COURSE | - |