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About the Course

This is the third course in the Google Project Management Certificate program. This course will explore how to map out a project in the second phase of the project life cycle: the project planning phase. You will examine the key components of a project plan, how to make accurate time estimates, and how to set milestones. Next, you will learn how to build and manage a budget and how the procurement processes work. Then, you will discover tools that can help you identify and manage different types of risk and how to use a risk management plan to communicate and resolve risks. Finally, you will explore how to draft and manage a communication plan and how to organize project documentation. 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: - Describe the components of the project planning phase and their significance. - Explain why milestones are important and how to set them. - Make accurate time estimates and describe techniques for acquiring them from team members. - Identify tools and best practices to build a project plan and risk management plan. - Describe how to estimate, track, and maintain a budget. - Explain the procurement process and identify key procurement documentation. - Draft a communication plan and explain how to manage it. - Explain why milestones are important and how to set them. - Explain why a project plan is necessary and what components it contains. - Make accurate time estimates and describe techniques for acquiring them from team members....

Top reviews

GD

Oct 30, 2022

I am greatful for this Course in particular. Very well structured and easy to understang . Special Thanks to the Instructor, Rowena and those who shared their experiences during this course. Thank You

AO

Jan 18, 2022

This is a perfectly prepared course. the videos and activities were simply perfect. I learnt a great deal from this.

i would recommend it to anyone wanting in-depth knowledge of Project management.

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By Koros D K

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Aug 26, 2022

insightful

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Jun 5, 2022

Great info

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May 15, 2022

Very good.

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Apr 23, 2023

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Oct 31, 2022

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Sep 4, 2022

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Nov 29, 2021

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Jul 24, 2023

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Dec 20, 2023

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By Colton F

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May 19, 2023

The speaker is clear and articulate. I appreciate this. The content is too long for this course. The peer graded evaluations are a joke, and the worst parts. It's how they circumnavigate paying someone to grade and provide professional feedback to your queries. I learn nothing from peers, and feel pressured to mark theirs correct even though it's questionably wrong. I learn far more from the exemplars, those are the keys here. Also, the "reading" sections are the ultimate takeaway from this course, save those. The resume portion is great if you've never had a job and/or never created a resume. The tips are generic and Google will ABSOLUTELY not look at you if your resume looks anything like the one they list as an example. I am living proof. I've done A/B testing, controls, variations, read books, tried it all. The content could be more concise and less all over the place. They would benefit from repetition of where the main points fit in the overall process (all 6 courses) because it's so much specific detail that you get lost when you don't do this daily. They need to tie it all together (to the larger picture) weekly, not by course. I learned some, and it was valuable info. Yet, I had to focus to take away the impactful information. I appreciate the blank documents to use or adapt to my own standards, or to simply use as a reference. Those are great. I do feel that we're getting some generic, half-baked idea of what Google actually does. The "real world" clips of workers throughout the first 3 courses seem mostly unprofessional, and really just stress one key point you read about prior. I don't get the influence of a mentor or someone I ACTUALLY want to learn from. I don't feel as if I know what they actually do. I took this course over the PMI because I wanted an idea of MODERN approaches and day to days. However, I don't think Google will actually share what they do, and I now understand that everything from this course will in no way allow me to capture that unicorn of a job at Google. I didn't have anyone pay for my school, so I couldn't afford the Ivy Leagues and their placement programs, lol. Maybe I can pivot after the 6th course and somehow get a phone call back from the years of Google applications I fill out. That being said, you can learn something from this, but don't expect much in the ways of real world job applicability, especially the resume/digital profile.

By Kelsey M

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Apr 10, 2022

I was excited for peer reviewed assignments, but many aspects of these are dissapointing.

I have recieved one instance of peer feedback where the grader provided their WhatsApp number and told me I should get in touch with them, which I don't feel is appropriate.

I have recieved a peer review where the reviewer took points off and said I was missing part (listing milestones) despite the assignment being complete (and having the milestones clearly listed).

I have reviewed multiple assignments for the escalation email assignment where other students have copy+pasted elements from the example email in the reading. This is particularly troublesome for the grading where I have to decide whether to give credit for having these elements or not give points because the portions of the email they copied aren't relevant to the situation presented in the assignment.

By Maheswaran k

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Aug 26, 2024

Course content is too long & less engaging even for an experienced professional. Course instructor is highly knowledgeable, language is clear but looking serious (Hardly smiles) most of the time & its not helpful to engage & focus in a static video lecture environment. [ I do have similar characteristics as an engineering professional & that's out of trend in current timeline! ] I Understand we have a general topic for project plants pal, easy to understand for all group of people. But, using the same for all examples & case studies is not interesting on repetitively used in all chapters & modules. [ Yes. I understand one common theme explained for all 6 chapters makes learning easier & give a whole picture, but its neither engaging nor interesting ]

By Bathsheba S N

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Nov 14, 2022

The course reading material was well put together, but the videos could be better. The instructor was knowledgeable and covered crucial points, however throughout the course it felt rushed and there was no mapping - Eg Instructor would start with "Here are 5 reasons" and the video should continue to what are those 5 reasons or key points of a plan and describe those, but the instructor was not following any order, they were starting with Reason 1, and then 2, and instead of 3 would go into another topic related to reason 2, and from there jump to totally irrelevant topic to these 5 reasons we started to learn. This structure of information created information overload, and could not map in the brain to be used later.