The project manager must take steps to ensure that the project is completed within the budget and without using any more resources than necessary. However, this is not always in their control as unexpected events like financial crises and natural disasters can increase the project costs and required resources. In such a situation, steps must be taken to remedy the situation. Moreover, time is another valuable resource that must be carefully expended. Tracking the time spent on the project will provide crucial data to the project manager, allowing them to ensure that the project is completed within the deadline. This course is the second in a series of four courses on intermediate project management and it will help you learn these skills. Additionally, you will also learn about the situations when it is best to terminate the project to prevent further losses. Learning objectives: – Learn two fallacies that prevent you from making the right decision about whether or not to continue a project – Learn the five main situations when it makes sense to kill your project – Understand the meaning of resource planning – Learn six best practices for resource planning – Learn the three-step process for creating a resource plan – Learn the four main causes of a resource deficit – Learn two main ways of handling a resource deficit – Learn five techniques for improving your time tracking – Learn the six-step process for controlling the costs of your project when it is over budget – Learn the five scheduling best practices to take into account multiple projects
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
- Year-round access to well-motivated, qualified employees.
- Access to potential full-time staff in a controlled environment, reducing your costs and risks.
- Access to a cost-effective source of temporary employees for peak periods or special projects.
- A say in what students learn by working with the university.
- Promotion of your organization as one that believes in developing the potential of young people.
- Access to a great pool of French-speaking, English-speaking and bilingual students.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
