Posted: September 13th, 2017

Risk and Value Management

Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

The Scottish Courts Service (SCS) wish to embark on a programme of refurbishment across the whole of the Scottish Court Estate to address IT issues in the modernising of court information handling, for example, video evidence being seen by all attending court, remote child evidence, etc. The refurbishment also to take account of those issues arising from the sustainability agenda. The Scottish Court Estate comprises 49 Sheriff Courts and 4 High Courts of which 43 are listed buildings. The intention is to undertake a trial project at Curriemuir Sheriff Court. The programme for the whole estate is not fully developed and a strategic outline business case has not yet been prepared for Curriemuir Sheriff Court.

As a consultant project manager offering value management services and at the invitation of the SCS Senior Property Officer write a report which:
1. Explains value management
2. Outlines the opportunities for value management in the development of the programme and the project
3. Outlines a systematic approach to making explicit the SCS value system
4. Explains the relevance of value management activity to the strategic outline business case

Assignment 1

The Scottish Courts Service (SCS) wish to embark on a programme of refurbishment across the whole of the Scottish Court Estate to address IT issues in the modernising of court information handling, for example, video evidence being seen by all attending court, remote child evidence, etc. The refurbishment also to take account of those issues arising from the sustainability agenda. The Scottish Court Estate comprises 49 Sheriff Courts and 4 High Courts of which 43 are listed buildings. The intention is to undertake a trial project at Curriemuir Sheriff Court. The programme for the whole estate is not fully developed and a strategic outline business case has not yet been prepared for Curriemuir Sheriff Court.

As a consultant project manager offering value management services and at the invitation of the SCS Senior Property Officer write a report which:

1. Explains value management
2. Outlines the opportunities for value management in the development of the programme and the project
3. Outlines a systematic approach to making explicit the SCS value system
4. Explains the relevance of value management activity to the strategic outline business case

Word limit 2000 words

Marking Scheme

Explanation of value management                                                        30 marks

Opportunities for value management                                   25 marks

Systematic approach to the SCS value system                      15 marks

Relevance of VM to the strategic outline business case       10 marks

Introduction, recommendations & report structure                              20 marks

Report Writing

1. The report should NOT be an assembly of referenced material from which the reader may infer an answer.       Referenced material should be used to reinforce or substantiate a point being made in the report. The explanations given should be explicit and focused on the case study problem. Material should be synthesised in the context of the case study and recommendations given.
2. Use bullet lists carefully. Do not end a section within the report or even the report itself with a bulleted list. Lists must always be rounded off with a sentence or paragraph summarising the final point of that section.
3. Every report should have a conclusion and every report of this nature should have recommendations. The Senior Property Officer will be seeking assistance from the expert, the project manager, on the route to take with regard to this project.
4. Read over the report before submission.
5. Check your reports for no page numbers, obvious spelling mistakes and font changes (a classic sign of block copying).

1. Make sure you include your name, especially if one is submitting via email.
2. If appendices have been included then they should be referred to in the text. It is not for the reader to discover them and wonder at their relevance.
3. Do not list references that have not been referred to in the text. Do not give references in the text which are not referenced in the References.
4. All sections should be attempted