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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

AA

Feb 14, 2022

This has been a good learning experience. I now know the different project management tools available. I have a good understanding of project initiation and how to determine the success of a project.

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.

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By Tanaya

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Jul 7, 2023

The class was very good at introducing the Project Initiation phase. I deducted a star not for the class, but for the peer graded assignment. It needs more oversight to ensure peers are grading peers fairly and correctly.

By Mindy L

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May 1, 2022

I love all the information, but didn't feel quite prepared to create the project charter. I struggled with the Smart goal and being able to dig through all the information to really find the breakdown of "what goes where".

By vaishali b

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Aug 14, 2023

the information and knowledge provide is amazing but I didn't like the trainer's energy and voice. Instead of focusing on what she says I had to pause the video and look at the transcript to read the content on my own.

By Summers C

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Jul 8, 2021

I would have really liked this course, but if you finish early, you have to wait (apparently for weeks?) for someone to review your peer-reviewed assignment. Until that happens, you can't move on to the next course.

By Petrus B S

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May 18, 2023

It is structured in such a way that even a beginner like myself can easily grasp the content provided I put the effort in. I would like to thank google career certificates' and coursera that thank you from Namibia

By Emily M

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Jan 28, 2024

A great course for total beginners starting out in Project Management. If you're experienced, its more a means to an end to ensure the upcoming – and presumably more challenging – follow the same train of thought.

By Shoaib A

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Dec 5, 2024

It was quite a good course on project initiation. Pronunciation and the way the instructor delivered were problems for me, but after achieving my certificate, I tried one more time, and then it seemed good.

By Visweswara R

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Jan 29, 2022

Coursera needs to improve their technical support for these courses.

I have completed this course more than 10 days ago and yet it constantly shows that a 10 minute reading on scope creep as outstanding.

By Elizabeth L

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Apr 28, 2022

Some of the work can be a little challenging and overwhelming at times as it is way to much information seems to increase more each week. I do look foward on continuining and not giving up.

By jorge v

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Mar 16, 2022

I would have liked the course material to be more engaging. It seems a little bland.

Perhaps less formal or more energizing tones. it just seems clear people are reading off prompters.

By Preety I

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Jun 9, 2024

I am facing issue in submitting my graded assessment there is no submit button available due to which I am unable to move further to the next course please fix the same

By Ann C

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Jan 9, 2023

It was a challenging project charter, I could have used more direction, I also did not like the fact that I can't review my project charter grade peer review!

By Dominique H J

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Mar 2, 2023

It was fine until the peer review portion. You have to wait and hope someone decides to review your project and not giving a failing grade with no feedback.

By Jasper l

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Sep 5, 2022

Look, i really love the course, but because of that one peer-graded assignment which cause me not complete the course, i am gonna rate it 3 start...

By Toniko R

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Jun 30, 2022

Peer reviews should not include calculated grades as one of my assignments was graded incorrectly and now that grade has effected my overall score.

By BOUH M

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Jul 4, 2021

Obviously , this course was one of my greatest achievements in the filed of project management as i gained valuable skills and knowledge .

By Caitlin G

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Oct 18, 2022

This was a harder course to stay on track of, and staying determined. I powered through it, and am happy to move on. But i learned alot!

By Suzie S

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Apr 12, 2022

The peer review needs to be updated. It took nearly a month for me to get a grade! Otherwise this course was informative ans helpful.

By Sneha S

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Apr 8, 2022

Though the content of the course was great, I felt that the instructor's voice was very low and so had difficulty with the content.

By Lilian K

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Oct 21, 2023

I really enjoyed and appreciated these course though i felt some aspects were a bit vague and could have been taught more in depth

By Bruce W

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Mar 30, 2023

It would be helpful for the templates to have data pre-filled as opposed to flipping back and forth. Good information overall.

By trang n

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Apr 26, 2023

It'd be great if we could have more exercises, quizzes, and homework for practicing because the information is still limited.

By Ryan P

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Aug 15, 2022

Dry, had to force myself to get through.

Has great information, but the times are not accurate and it wears on your schedule.

By Abhishek A

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Jun 14, 2023

the course is mostly just uninteractive video learning. it would be more interesting if videos were a bit more interactive

By Eric H ( F F A F G

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Apr 9, 2024

This course was great but halfway through I could not access the google docs because of an access denied message.