Optimisation

Legal Aid Criminal & Family Law Structural lifecycle improvements — simulated, advisory, not additive.
Resources

What to do

Best simulated structural change recovers 3d: Parallelise Epic Walk-Through with Draft Epics.

Benefits are per recommendation and are not additive.

Recommended structural changes

Simulated against the live schedule · 40 candidates evaluated · 3 retained

Do this first parallelisation Parallelise Epic Walk-Through with Draft Epics Recover 3d risk low high

Why? Epic Walk-Through is Finish-to-Start after Draft Epics in the same epic; Start-to-Start may recover critical-path time.

If applied: Recover 3 business days; peak util 337% → 337%; idle (proxy) -160.9h

Apply in DEL-3371 · Dependencies · Epics · Resources
parallelisation Parallelise Draft Epics with Source Policy Recover 2d risk low high

Why? Draft Epics is Finish-to-Start after Source Policy in the same epic; Start-to-Start may recover critical-path time.

If applied: Recover 2 business days; peak util 337% → 295%; idle (proxy) +73.8h

Apply in DEL-3371 · Dependencies · Epics · Resources
parallelisation Parallelise Review + Validate Epics with Epic Walk-Through Recover 2d risk low high

Why? Review + Validate Epics is Finish-to-Start after Epic Walk-Through in the same epic; Start-to-Start may recover critical-path time.

If applied: Recover 2 business days; peak util 337% → 337%; idle (proxy) +194.1h

Apply in DEL-3377 · Dependencies · Epics · Resources
Evidence — capacity signals
Peak utilisation
337%
From plan allocation (not timesheets)
Overallocated resources
5
Weeks above 100% utilisation
Idle capacity (proxy)
2556.6h
Available − allocated in valleys — proxy
Active epics
18
Scheduling structure horizon