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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 Killian D

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Oct 28, 2021

Was really loving this course until the peer-review stuff came up, now I understand all the critique I've heard from it. It doesn't fit an online format well at all and people don't take it seriously and give bad marks for the sake of it. I finished the first course and would give that a 5 but with peer-review being so flawed I'm going to have to stop taking this course here.

By Ianina O

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Oct 9, 2023

Dear Coursera, I faced troubles with SMART project goals test. Unfortunately, access fro template and google docs template is denied, and I have no chance to finish this test or to move forward. I've sent request concerning this issue through application and email, but unfortunately I didn't get any answer yet. Kindly ask you and looking for your help.

By Priya A

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Feb 1, 2024

I am in module 3, and as I have already wrote my issue in Help center. I would also like to share here, since I have pushed the end date, and it was on Jan 28 to submit the assignment, and it is feb 2 now, still I cannot post my assignment please I request the team to fix this problem. I am getting no response, I am only asking for help to fix my issue.

By Ishit P

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Oct 12, 2023

Too basic and boring. I did 4 courses thinking I would learn something eventually. I think PM act as mediator with no expertise at all and just act as someone who manages the project and has authority. To be honest, any one can do it and has no value. Don't waste your time and do something meaningful. - Just my perspective and being honest.

By brs g

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Jul 12, 2023

The instructor's teaching style is very monotonous

The instructor's voice was very low, I had difficulty hearing, and compared to the fundamentals of project management training, it was very boring. I'm sorry, but I didn't get enough productivity from the training, and I lost motivation.

By patrick G

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Jul 4, 2022

I will NOT and NEVER have my assignments "verified" by other course participants. Neither will I verify other course participants. Not everyone speaks English equally well, maybe I misunderstand him or he misunderstands me, this makes your course completely subjective and therefore USELESS!

By Natalie P

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Apr 7, 2023

Excellent course except for the peer reviewed assignment component, which is mandatory. If it was optional and/or reviewed by instructors it would be much more useful. Specially for people who already have done project management and/or project coordination in the past.

By jeremiah b

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Sep 29, 2021

I am continually prompted to redo lesions from past courses, so it feel like I will never finish.

Customer service for Coursera is non-existent. I would never recommend this program to anyone, and would quit if I hadn't already devoted so much time to this bullshit.

By Katarzyna

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Aug 30, 2022

5 stars for the content, 1 star for the coursea strusture and user orientation on in the platform. I was constantly lost, keep closing the windows to go back to the main menu, no numbering of the chapter titles.

By Adrian T

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Dec 4, 2022

Waiting to get a peer review is not efficient but we are required to review 3 before moving forward.

the information is great. and very useful.

this course is well thought out minus the wait time.

By Michelle V

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Apr 13, 2023

Cannot get past peer assisgnment. The peer assignments and grading are beyond ridiculous to navigate and have no value. I cannot progress to the next course and I'm stuck. No Help available.

By Fanni K

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Jul 10, 2022

Because of the Assignment review procedure. It is very stressful, time-consuming and not user-friendly at all, especially for those who have to complete the course within a strict timeline.

By Aung Z Y

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Oct 15, 2022

Peer reviews is not realistic and it shouldn't be a graded assignment. Even when someone complete the all 4 weeks and learners begging one another to review one another is a waste of time.

By Jacob S

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Feb 17, 2023

The week 4 assignment completion is broken. There are more than 17,000 discussion threads with people trying to get the assignment completed for the course certificate.

PLEASE FIX THIS!

By Sajan D

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Nov 20, 2022

very tough kinds of weekly quiz are designed , many many of topic content are repetative in every course that should be unique . Repetative wording create puzzling in minds ..

By Gersonn H R M

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May 19, 2021

La pagina rebota mucho al momento de enviar las tareas . No obtengo la ayuda necesaria sobre eso y aun no revisan mi tarea de revisión a pesar que ya lo revisé y reenvié.

By Rich K

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May 8, 2023

Content was great, but cannot earn more than one star due to mobile hostile format. In 2023, this is simply unacceptable. A study on Blockbuster should be considered.

By Grayson G

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Feb 28, 2023

I have completed everything in this course and it won't give me full completion credit because no one has graded my peer review work... this is a faulty requirement.

By Chris R

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Jan 12, 2024

The word "success" and "successful" comes up about a million times in this course. Yet, the instructor they chose for the course cannot pronounce it "successfully".

By Krupali Z

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Jul 21, 2022

No one is helping in reviewing the peer assignment. If it is not done then we won't get the course completion certificate. Peer assignment is poorly executed.

By Reda K

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Jun 18, 2022

this course is not good because i depend on other to get my grade and on the Top of that instead of going forward i'm waiting for someone to give me a grade

By Heidi E

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Aug 30, 2024

I don't like peer graded assignments. Its hit or miss weather or not they get graded and the templates they are using are difficult to navigate.

By Ritesh Z

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Jul 21, 2022

Peer assignment is very stressful. As no one helps in reviewing the assignment, we won't be able to get the course completion certificate.

By Anna M

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Sep 15, 2021

Because I had to reset my deadlines I lost all my grades and all my progress.

Really disappointed with this issue all this time wasted.

By Inna L

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Jan 6, 2023

Hello lovely Coursera team, Could you please unblock this course? I will redo my homework to complete the course. Kind regards, Inna