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About the Course

This course combines the essential elements of Project Management and Team Leadership into one course. Through class engagement and reflection, you will acquire further understanding of the responsibilities of leadership and become better prepared to apply this knowledge to the project environment. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Learn about the role of high performance teams and leadership in project management 2. Learn about the tools and techniques for developing and strengthening high performance teams and team members 3. Learn about the stages in project cycle 4. Apply best practices to develop competencies and skills in planning and controlling projects to ensure successful outcomes 5. Learn how to monitor project activities and assess progress 6. Learn to communicate proficiently to report project status and performance to stakeholders and contribute to organizational knowledge base...

Top reviews

JA

Dec 3, 2020

the best starting point to continue your knowledge on the relevant and basic skills required in managing a project. Effective notes and referral videos for further understanding of project management.

AS

May 19, 2020

Thank you to Coursera for such a great platform to improve our skills and literacy.The learning environment offered here is completely a learn at your own pace environment,making it flexible to learn.

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By Nazmul H

Nov 13, 2020

Excellent crash course to learn the Basics of Project Management. However, the reference materials of this course are taken from PMBOK 5th edition and should be modified according to PMBOK 6th edition.

By Michael D

Aug 14, 2015

Well structured and informative. Needs more in depth treatment of each section, additional materials( additional suggested reading would be nice), and more excitement from the professor. Thank

By Victor B G

Oct 30, 2020

I think the course must be updated because it's a little lit boring and the professor sometimes is just reading the ppts, but as very basic for proejct management, it was good.

By Анастасия Т

Mar 11, 2021

Would enjoy more practice, maybe peer-reviewed tasks to make Gantt charts or complicated network diagrams; More real - life examples from companies would work out too.

By davidicus

Nov 12, 2017

solid basics overview. good audio, occasional diagram. no fluff. concrete examples.

somewhat short. no quiz grading, and that really limits learning effectiveness.

By Dustin R

Sep 14, 2015

Information was good, a bit dry at points and the presenter didn't seem that enthused to be presenting. Overall decent course on an important and relevant topic.

By Masud K

Jul 4, 2016

Pretty Simple stuff - but would've been better if there was actually something we worked on in a group, or an actual project to 'plan' or gantt chart to create.

By Cynthia C

Nov 8, 2015

Thank you for the lecturer, Rob, to prepare that great course on coursera platform for us to learn those knowledge in effective way. Thank you very much again.

By Amanda B

Jul 31, 2020

The course is good, meets the expectations of the basics of project management, but I found the course very theoretical, I would like more tips from real life

By Jimmy L

Dec 14, 2020

A very basic overview of project management. The presenter follows the slides very closely but doesn't do much to engage the student in thoughtful exercises.

By maged n

Aug 30, 2017

It was full of so much valuable information but no practice at all that's why I couldn't understand everything of it but thank you really for that effort

By Bruno F

Jan 26, 2016

El contenido no fue lo que esperaba por el precio pagado y la forma de evaluar del curso promueve el memorizar conceptos en lugar de comprenderlos

By Amjad A s

Aug 28, 2020

it was pretty cool thanks so much,

but you should improve it by explaining which is better tools it can help us

and you should focus on a practice

By Melanie M

Dec 12, 2017

I would like to see the content spread more evenly over the 4 modules. The fourth module is as long if not longer than the first 3 modules.

By Simon C

Oct 16, 2015

Course was informative and a useful refresher but could have done with more worked examples in the tracking area specifically around value.

By Iga T

Dec 21, 2016

It is good, very basic course giving the overview of the most important subjects in project management. Good as a starting point.

By Rendani

Nov 27, 2016

I would have like it if they could provide free graded assessment to non-certificate students; and make option for certification

By Priya

Oct 13, 2015

It is very high level course which will just cover bullet points. Details and elaborated explanation would have been excellent.

By Raquel F

Aug 20, 2015

Clear and easy concepts for project management. I missed some practical exercice to put in practice the knowledge acquired.

By Irfan G

Apr 5, 2020

It was a good course but I felt that the teaching was done only by looking at the bullet points and not elaborated.

By Aarthi K

Dec 1, 2016

Informative. Good introduction to basics in Project Management. Might have been helpful to have more case studies.

By Tim B

Jan 12, 2017

Very basic. The structure is odd; the last week contains more material than the rest of the course put together.

By Elena E

Nov 12, 2015

In my opinion a clear guideline is missing. The terms are not always the same and it's sometimes confusing.

By Luana G d C

Jan 21, 2017

The class and the content is very good! But the way that the professor teachs is kind of boring for me.

By CE T S R

May 9, 2020

The videos are too much elongated and boring. They failed to give good information in interactive way.