5 Project Management Tools: Choosing the Best Fit for Your Team
February 22, 2025
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(2,130 reviews)
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Beginner level
No prerequisites. Familiarity with Word Documents and Asana is helpful, but not required.
(2,130 reviews)
Recommended experience
Beginner level
No prerequisites. Familiarity with Word Documents and Asana is helpful, but not required.
Create essential project management tools like Scope Statements and RACI Charts
Build Work Schedule and Timeline in Asana
Compare the difference in different project views in Asana.com
Add to your LinkedIn profile
Only available on desktop
This course is designed to give you the fundamentals of Project Management. You will learn the basic principles of Project Management by managing a fundraising event for your local farmers market. You will designate responsible team members to help you, build a timeline and see the different ways that you can manage the project. Together, we will walk through not only the documentation, but also the theories and reasoning behind each task. You will learn how to look at a large project and break it down into manageable pieces and then how to build an action plan so that you hit your deadlines with your team.
By the end of the course, you will have created a Project Scope document, Stakeholder Responsibility Matrix, sequenced a task list, added task owners, and a explored several popular project views using Project Management software. You will be ready to tackle a project on your own or will be equipped to take a higher-level course in Project Management. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Complete a project scope statement
Develop a stakeholder Responsibility Matrix Assessment
Sequence project task list in Asana.com
Add task deadlines and Owners in Asana.com
Explore different views of your project in Asana.com
No prerequisites. Familiarity with Word Documents and Asana is helpful, but not required.
We asked all learners to give feedback on our instructors based on the quality of their teaching style.
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Reviewed on Jun 8, 2020
Overall everything is good and have great experience about online project. I am very thankful to Coursera.org learning platform where I am learning new skills and enhance of existing skills.
Reviewed on Jan 27, 2021
Was a lot of technical problems, short time for session. After time, cannot open again. Still useful, to know how to create basic PM project in Asana. Could just look in youtube.. :D
Reviewed on Jun 18, 2020
Thanks a lot for a brief and short course. This was amazing. I learned by doing a practice, this is effects immediately and deep to course!
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