Jason M. Hanley :: Custom Software Developer

School has entered a bit of a “calm before the storm” state. Last week we did some interesting integrated classes about Risk Management, and this week we finished up a series of lectures on Supply Chain Management. In the meantime, we’ve been ramping up for the Company Project, and final Integrated Case Exams.

The Company Project is due at the end of next week, after a series of lectures on Globalization. We will be submitting a report, and presenting a “trade show booth” about the company at an exhibit next Saturday.

After that, our final week of classes for this term are all about Ethics and Responsibility. Funny how they leave that until the very end Then we have our individual integrated exam. Finally, the next week concludes the term with a group integrated case presentation.

We’ve started into the final phase of the first semester, the integrated component. This is where we start taking bits and pieces from all of the separate classes and putting them together to solve bigger, real-life problems. This week has been about Risk Management. We’ve touched topics like accounting and fraud, company reputation, foreign exchange, and tomorrow we’re going to look at new product development.

All of our individual class exams are done, but that only covers about 30% of our total mark. The remainder is an integrated case exam and group work. In this last month, we still have 60% of our marks remaining. Currently our group is focusing on a large project called simply the “Company Project”. We pick a public company, and have to write a lengthy report supporting either a Buy, Hold or Sell position on their stock, similar to a stock analyst’s report.

So things will remain busy as the countdown to the end of term approaches.

Only have time for a quick entry tonight. Had my Finance exam this morning and it went fairly well. It wasn’t as hard as it could’ve been, but certainly took a good part of the 3 hours allocated for it. I’m currently working on a take-home Operations exam that is due tomorrow at 4:00pm. I plan on working on it long into the night, until my eyes start closing Looking forward to tomorrow when all this is behind me…