Online Webinar – Recorded March 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Most projects involve contracts with external providers or suppliers of good and services. Those taking on the role of project managers therefore need to know and understand the basics of contract law in order to be effective and avoid risks being ‘gotchas’!

Most projects involve buying something from an external provider. This can range from ‘off the shelf’ widgets to complex contracts for multi-million packages.

Regardless, if you don’t know the basics of contract law, both in the procurement and ‘in-contract’ management phase, you can inadvertently put your organisation at significant commercial risk. On the other hand, if both parties clearly articulate and understand their legal and contractual obligations, then the project is far more likely to be a success.

What does this mean? Having a basic knowledge of contract law is an essential pre-requisite for an effective project manager!

This is the second webinar in this series:
Click Here to view the first session

It covered the components of a contract; ‘boiler plate’ & negotiated clauses; risk allocation; who should be involved and project managing a contract’s development.

The slides have been listed on Slideshare and the webinar recording on YouTube are available in our APM resources and also below for reference.

Presenter: Sarah Schütte (LinkedIn profile) is a UK-qualified solicitor-advocate for Schutte Consulting Limited. With 16+ years’ experience, with a wide variety of industry clients to support their projects, disputes, corporate and project risk management and insurance strategies and training programmes, both in the UK and abroad. Sarah has developed a niche practice in planning, programing and project management (PPM and P3M), project controls and the law. She advocates confident and competent contract and commercial management, and focuses on putting law into practice so that project management practitioners develop essential knowledge and skills.

Click To View On YouTube:
Basic Contract Law For Project Managers Part 2:
Building A Contract

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