Despite the principle of Legal Project Management receiving a lot of attention within the profession, lawyers with project management skills are still rare and therefore highly marketable.
This masterclass, delivered live online and providing 6 hours verified CPD, takes you through each stage of the project management cycle and includes the following detailed learning outcomes:
Section 1 - Project Basics and Business Cases
At the end of this component delegates will be able to:
- discuss the benefits of project management
- define the pre-requisites for project management
- describe the different phases of a project lifecycle
- identify the main features of a business case (including project definition and project analysis)
- discuss optimism bias and planning fallacy and describe how they impact on successful project management
- describe how reference class forecasting can help with accurate scoping
- discuss the concept of Return on Investment
- describe the methodology used to choose and rank projects
- describe the concept of opportunity cost
- identify reputation issues associated with projects
Section 2 - Project Scopes, Risk and Compliance
At the end of this component delegates will be able to:
- discuss the process of drafting scopes of work
- describe the ways in which scopes can be controlled
- describe Gantt charts and how to use them effectively
- identify appropriate milestones for projects
- describe the concept of risk
- discuss how to identify and assess risk
- identify measures to manage and control risk
- describe how to manage risk at a project or programme level
- describe Etzioni's classic compliance theory
Section 3 - Project Communication and the Multi Project Environment
At the end of this component delegates will be able to
- discuss the importance of project communication
- describe the techniques used to create an effective project communication plan
- identify how and when project status reports should be employed
- identify the key concepts of a multi-project environment (functional, project based and matrix)
- describe the difference between portfolios and programmes
- identify key problems that can cause overload
- discuss the concept of over-resourcing
- describe the theory underpinning teamwork
- describe the flattened management concept
- identify who would be best suited to join a particular project team
Section 4 - Project Performance, Handover and Abandonment
At the end of this component delegates will be able to:
- describe and explain how Key Performance Indicators can measure the outcomes of a project
- describe and explain Earned Value Management
- discuss the process of project handover and close-out
- identify the barriers to abandoning unsuccessful projects