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About the Course

This is the second course in the Google Project Management Certificate program. This course will show you how to set a project up for success in the first phase of the project life cycle: the project initiation phase. In exploring the key components of this phase, you’ll learn how to define and manage project goals, deliverables, scope, and success criteria. You’ll discover how to use tools and templates like stakeholder analysis grids and project charters to help you set project expectations and communicate roles and responsibilities. Current Google project managers will continue to instruct and provide you with hands-on approaches for accomplishing these tasks while showing you the best project management tools and resources for the job at hand. Learners who complete this program should be equipped to apply for introductory-level jobs as project managers. No previous experience is necessary. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Understand the significance of the project initiation phase of the project life cycle. - Describe the key components of the project initiation phase. - Determine a project’s benefits and costs. - Define and create measurable project goals and deliverables. - Define project scope and differentiate among tasks that are in-scope and out-of-scope. - Understand how to manage scope creep to avoid impacting project goals. - Define and measure a project’s success criteria. - Complete a stakeholder analysis and explain its significance. - Utilize RACI charts to define and communicate project team member responsibilities. - Understand the key components of project charters and develop a project charter for project initiation. - Evaluate various project management tools to meet project needs....

Top reviews

MG

Feb 7, 2022

everything is excellent. but i am facing the problem that says 'upgrade to submit' when i traied to submit the peer graded assignment. and it is been 3 weeks i stucked on this module. please help me.

SP

Jan 23, 2024

Although I took this course first before the foundation of project management I found I have known many terms in my real life so eager to start to learn more in-depth qualities of project management.

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By esther g

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Feb 14, 2023

The lecturer was clear and precise. The course offers deeper elaboration of content giving links and files to download for further studies. This course also gave personal involvement and step by step guidance to practice and complete tasks on my own promoting learning.

By Fernando L G

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Oct 25, 2022

Deep dive into the initiation of a project. They are emphatic on how important it is to set objectives, define scope, establish success criterias and proper documentation. They also give you an insight on how to do it by providing templates and examples. Great course!

By Natalia I O S

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Oct 14, 2022

I loved this course! I learned a lot about the diffeent documents a PM must know about and manage. I also got an insight on the many project managment tools available. I am beyond exited to keep learning about Project Management. The instructors are truly exceptional.

By Dawn S

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Sep 6, 2022

Very good examples with the inclusion of templates. I like how they recap the main points of the video with the reading assignments right after. The charter project assignment felt like a true assessment for getting started and understanding the essential components.

By Yash D

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Dec 3, 2021

I am really grateful to join this course. the way all of the instructors teach and explain things is very easy to understand and grasp the maximum knowledge. entire course is based on industrial standards and that is what makes it so interesting.

THANK YOU GOOGLE !!!!

By Farzaneh T

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Jul 6, 2023

The course itself is great. Having more downloadable material specially in Reading sections would have helped some people like me with ADHD, far more. I need to concentrate and review a printed version as well. Plus, it doesn't hurt to have some resources to review.

By Simeon A

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Jan 23, 2022

This course gives the would-be project manager a solid background in such a manner that after you're done with this course, you also get a new level of confidence regarding handling project initiation. I kept wondering is there was more needed on the specialization.

By Jose L M

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Mar 9, 2023

Mediante este curso, que es de gran importanacia, pude obtener habilidades y las herramientas útiles para ejercer la carrera de la gestión de proyectos, lo que será de suma importancia para mi desarrollo en el ámbito, personal, académico, laboral y profesional.

By Wenji L

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Oct 18, 2021

This course give you an overview on the project initiation and introduce multiple tools that could be used during the process. A good start for beginner to have some basic idea but definitely need practice and participation to be familiar with how to use the tools.

By Camila B M N

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Aug 16, 2022

It was amazing to understand a lot about tools and how can they help in any project. This course opens my mind to start a new chapter in my professional life because I can add a lot of skills that I have been getting during my experience in this possible new area.

By Viter A

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Jan 17, 2023

This course helps bring order to the processes and systemize everything. Some things were already familiar, but there was chaos in my head. Now I will try to put everything in order. And useful lessons about tools. These are my favorite points in all the courses.

By Rajat P

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Oct 6, 2022

This Course was nice as it offered various insights into succesffull intiation of a Project. Google team has give in-depth guidance via this easy learning platform. Thanks to the various Project manager trainers who led & taught the course in an interesting way.

By Eduardo R A

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Jul 21, 2022

I found it is an excellent certification. The education method with readings, videos, quizzes, practices, and tools is very well planned to facilitate learning for the user.

Many thanks for this course, and congratulations to all Googlers involved.

Regards,

Eduardo

By Roisin O

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Apr 3, 2022

Could not recommend this course more! It is getting increasingly more informative as I go. I enjoy that it slowly starts to give you more and more information and it doesn't jump straight in with mountains of information. This course is definitely student focused

By Mohit S

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Sep 14, 2023

nicely explained concepts through videos , graded quizzes , assignments and activities

the flexibility to learn at your own pace is really great

enough extra resources are provided in terms of links to deep dive in the concepts

great value for money at this price !

By Abdulwasiu J

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Feb 15, 2022

The course is informative a shocking for me, as I worked in project management for more than 5 years but still learned new things, I hope I learnt it before I started my first job, I could avoid a lot of mistake and worked easily. thanks for this amazing course.

By Antonio S

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Aug 16, 2022

Very good training that offers a structured approach to the initial phase of projects. It provides work approaches in this phase such as the inclusion of all participants (team), how to gain visibility, secure the necessary resources and avoid costly obstacles.

By Chloe A T

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Oct 5, 2023

An outstanding course in Project Initiation with a highly knowledgeable instructor; practical content, engaging examples with software links, sample templates, quizzes and clear teaching style make it a must for anyone aspiring to excel in project management.

By Alfredo F

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Jun 1, 2022

One of my favorite things about this course is that I get to work at my own pace. This gave me the chance to step away and think about assignments or the next section I had pending. It helped me approach the course content with a fresh perspective everytime.

By Sathyamoorthy B

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Dec 22, 2021

My Name is Sathyamoorthy, Let me express gratitude for developing a detailed and Informative course on Project Initiation, Course content is highly proffessinal, evaluation process makes us equiped for industry standards.Personally thankful for Instructors.

By David R

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Jan 21, 2024

This course proved to be remarkably intriguing as it introduced me to a diverse array of communication tools and techniques. I gained valuable insights into various methods of communication and acquired a comprehensive understanding of the tools available.

By Jayne M

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Sep 20, 2022

The course is well laid out and simple to follow. As someone who is completely new to project management I was a little intimidated but the content and delivery methods put me at ease and I was able to breeze through with little challenges.

On to Course 3

By Hector A

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Jun 25, 2022

Great classes! They really help develop an understanding on everything needed to kickoff your project, from stakeholder analysis, writing a project charter, setting clear SMART goals and OKRs, to using the right tools for work management and collaboration.

By ken k

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May 26, 2021

I was apprehensive of ever trying to switch from retail management to something else. This course makes me realize how much useful knowledge I have related to Project Management after 13 years of retail management. The course is extremely easy to complete.

By João E

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Aug 11, 2024

This course has good material to read and listen to, in-depth knowledge ,in all the topics and challenging enough questions in the quizes to assess the learning quality. Also pratical use of some of the materials are really good to materialize the theory.