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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....

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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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Oct 11, 2022

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.