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I was really happy with this course.

As a suggestion for improving it, I think that a couple of things could be improved:

1.better clarify, with additional examples and also what each one is not, differences among scope, goals measuring success, benefits, business case. Just as an example (and this appear clear when examing the final test of some students), they (and me also) do not understand if sentences like "90% of Employees trained prior to launch " is to be considered as a SMART project goal, as a benefit, if it is good to state this sentence to clarify a deliverable scope in the deliverable section, or if it is to be written in the measurable success criteria. Maybe this sentence is all of these? In this latter case maybe the proposed methodology (project charter) is redundant and may lead to confusion.

2.I suppose that the proposed commercial or free proposed tools will be better analysed and explained later in the following courses, but if this is not the case, or even if this is the case, I think that this detailed features analysis should be done here, as maybe it is in this project initiation phase that the project manager needs to define the used tool(s) (or at least make an initial choice).

As a general comment, I've bee working as a project manager for several years, so as I need specific and clear information and not only general information to be better understood or completed "later" or "by myself". This is the reason I wrote the two points above.

The course is great, the instructor is easy to understand, for me the course is well-designed for beginner level, I leant a lot from SMART goals, OKRs, project's scope, The triple constraint model, the RACI chart, Project charters, stakeholder analysis and different types of tools that used in project management in day-to day activities. The peer review for some of the assignments is interesting, to review and evaluate your classmate' effort , then compare their answer with yours to find out what you or them miss, feel like you fill the gap you forget, although is a brilliant idea but it needs more modification such as: instead to  wait my assignment to get review by at least 3 of my classmate, it should be automatically reviewed by instructors if I didn't get my assignment reviewed by my classmate after 7 days or something. I am really interesting in  SMART goals, OKRs and project management tools. And I would like to thank Coursera and Google to give me a chance to participate and joint this course, and I am really looking forward to learn much more on the next course. Good luck to everyone and hope success to all.

- The course was great, i could finish it in 17 days. - Many different contents and exercises than the first course. I felt you could develop more the part of cost x benefit (ROI) to help us understand when there´s a financial viability or not, the math expression itself is helpful but not enough to go deep further into this subject. - I also think we needed more details on how to use / calculate time for each phase: how many meetings with stakeholders do we need to develop the Project Charter? How long is too much to develop a budget? Are there any references to know if we are taking too long or too little in each phase? - Budgeting prior to Project Charter, that´s a key point that i think could be improved and with more details. - The amount of data given is huge, i suggest the development of a PDF document with all texts and key points to elaborate a BOOKLET to be used as a reference besides our personal notes. - I also miss the amount of hours defined for each course in the certificate. Please elaborate a more detailed certificate with Coursera. Thanks!

I found this second course very engaging and interesting as we practiced a lot in addition to the theoretical knowledge we've gained. I found the exercises on building SMART goals and create project charters challenging and useful. I am particularly interesting in learning more about all the PM tools out there, starting with Asana and Jira.

One important negative aspect is the quality of some peer-reviewed submissions. The peer-reviewed assignments themselves make sense and are relevant, but many of the submissions from other people I have reviewed were of extremely poor quality (missing answers, one-word answers, instructions not followed). It unfortunately makes me feel that a portion of learners are likely running through the class as fast as possible to reach the final certificate and get access to employers. This might reflect poorly on the class and on all of the dedicated learners who are spending a lot of time and effort to learn new skills and build solid PM knowledge and experience.

I recently completed the Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project course certification offered by Google on Coursera, and I found it to be a valuable and informative experience. The course is well-structured and easy to follow, with engaging videos and interactive quizzes to reinforce the material.

One of the things I appreciated about this course was its focus on practical skills and techniques that can be applied to real-world project management scenarios. The instructors did an excellent job of breaking down complex concepts into simple, easy-to-understand terms and providing practical examples and case studies to illustrate their points.

Overall, I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning more about project management, especially those who are just starting out in their careers or looking to transition into a project management role.