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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 Nicholas J

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Sep 13, 2021

Solid course. My only criticism is that I'd like to add a criteria on peer reviewed assignments that graded people on how professional the document looked. Some people just copy and paste which makes the document messy and hard to follow, and then they are still awarded all points.

By Cheryl W

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Apr 22, 2023

Insightful, information packed. Well explained since I had no idea so much goes into the Project Initiation phase. I'll definitely have to review the information periodically so I am able to retain it and not get the information mixed up due to the large volume of data presented.

By Mohammad W

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Aug 22, 2022

Information that are provided in the course are so easy and had meaningful use in the life of project manager. Things are very much elaborative even in shorter time. Tasks and assignement that are given very helpful to learn and utilize the learned knowledge in practical use.

By ALBERT A S

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Nov 6, 2021

it was interesting digging into it .work the different aspect of these iniation phase.sometimes boring but testing your stamina to hold to.in real project management work you need to aquire these skills to never quit and stay strong all the way through .thanks to google team

By Farid A

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Mar 29, 2023

Very good course, but I am giving 4 stars because of peer graded assignment, first review was very unfair. As I was completely sure that my task was done correctly, I submitted it again without any change and got 2 positive reviews. Peer graded assignments can be improved.

By Adam R

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Nov 29, 2021

It would be much more educational to have more interactive lessons inside the google sheets tool. A more realistic "hands on" lesson plan would have been very beneficial and would encourage me to use sheets more in the future instead of possibly using another tool instead.

By Varun B C

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Dec 13, 2022

I have been into Project management, but not been a formal one since i has been handling it on my own, this gives me more structured way of working and explains in a very simple manner, i would definitely recommend this to someone looking to move into Project mangement.

By Sarah M

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Sep 14, 2022

Some of the terms are a little confusing to keep straight, I had to refer back quite a bit to make sure I was understanding what a deliverable was v. a goal and how they might differ. Overall though, great examples, the material was comprehensive and robust. Thank you!

By Anthony G

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Jun 14, 2021

The content is sometimes engaging, ive had a real difficult time staying focus, theres alot of talking in the lessons. It would be cool if there were different types of assignments that could keeo me in it as opposed to video,video,video,read this,quiz, big assignments

By thierry l

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Jun 21, 2024

I like this course. I have a very difficult time listening to female voices, which makes the learning experience quite challenging for me. I wish there were an option to choose the gender of the instructor. For this course the instructor had a voice easier to follow.

By Rupmala

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Apr 25, 2022

The course is well documented and easy to apprehend. The examples are relavent. However, i feel that some assiggnment of management tools (open source) such as google spread sheet, templates, charts, pivot tables could be included so that learner becomes onboarding.

By Ana O A

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Jul 7, 2022

Love the course so far, however, I did not like the assignment to have to review and grade other peers assignments (at least 3) and have them to review mine in order to have this course complete. Please keep in mind all students are busy with their own assignment.

By Justin P

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Apr 13, 2023

It's really unsatisfying to finish a course, knowing that I satisfied all of the requirements for the peer-graded assignment, and have to trust someone else to grade it while also not knowing when it will be graded.

Other than that I'm loving all of these courses.

By Sandra S G

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Sep 4, 2023

Amazing course, It's really helpful and full of great information. Great and supportive course professor and efficient ways of teaching was involved. Thanks to Google for presenting this course and Thanks to Coursera for providing this course on its platform.

By Sherry G K

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Jul 17, 2021

The instructors were clear and concise. The reading material was very helpful. I have learned so much about project management through this course. Only negative is the peer assignments. Overall, I think it is a worthwhile course especially for the price.

By Bangaru M

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Jul 9, 2021

Great Course Of course ! The course is detailed and very informational. I would have loved more if there is more of practice exercises (ex: a sample tool ,especially for project management ) and little less of pdf readings. Thank you for the amazing effort !

By Kimberlin R

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May 25, 2021

The material was not clear when conveyed, I was unfamiliar with some of the questions that were asked on the quizzes. I had to review videos more than once to clarify some of the notes I was taking and the charts and material did not coincide like Course 1.

By Margarita P Y

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Dec 13, 2021

The course was great, but I had to come back after months of completition, apparently the course did not take into consideration that I already saw some videos (I know I did since i had notes on them) and the I had to review again work of the classmates...

By GHADEER A A A

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Mar 8, 2023

It is a very informative course with lots of gained information about how to initiate a project and the way of presenting the information is very simple, concise and rich in a very interactive way which will not make you feel lost or not following.

By Simon F

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Jun 22, 2021

This was a lot more challenging to complete than the initial course in the certificate, but I feel like it was due to the projects that were a part of these modules, versus taking quizzes majority

I felt like it was harder to engage with this module

By Divya S

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Feb 2, 2023

I have loved everything about the course except the peer reviewing as it takes a long time for someone to respond and I am unable to complete the certification on time. It would be great if that's not a criteria to obtain a certificate. Thank you

By Renato D S

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Nov 27, 2021

I loved the course and all materials provided, I just you like to give my feedback about the peers grade process, it takes a long time to have a grade and finish the course... and you can see on forums that there are lots of complaints about that

By Thania V

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Jul 27, 2022

The peer to peer grading could be a better system. I have waited oer 6 hours for 1 item to be graded, even though i'ev finished the course. I love the overall learing experience and cant wait to get my completed cert after the last course of PM.

By Lisa M

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Nov 12, 2021

This was a great course. I had to go back a few times to reread or watch the videos as the content was broad. I hope to learn more about actually using some of the tools and getting practice on the bigger project management systems.

thank you!

By Babken H

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Jun 6, 2022

Peer Review tasks are not useful at all. The peers are reviewing the task only if they get something in response and sometimes one doesn't get anyy review at all which blocks one to getting further in the course. That feature is of no help.