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

Explanation of value management
Opportunities for value management

30 marks
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