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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Project Management Foundations, Initiation, and Planning by SkillUp EdTech

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About the Course

To navigate today’s complex and rapidly changing work environments, many organizations divide work into projects. Project management provides a structured approach to plan and manage projects in order to achieve on-time, within-budget, and scope as planned delivery. Compare and contrast predictive and adaptive project management models. Learn to avoid common causes of project failure. Investigate how to lead effective meetings and how motivating your team can lead to project success. Create essential documents required during the project initiation phase like the business case, project charter, project brief, stakeholder register, and stakeholder engagement plan. Prepare other project documents to help you scope a project and plan accurate project schedules and budgets. You will gain practical experience with hands-on labs. Upon completion, you will have a portfolio of widely used project initiation and planning assets to demonstrate your skills to potential employers. This course is set up to help you succeed as a project manager. It is well-suited for those looking to step up their careers or new graduates seeking to establish their project management careers. This course is part of series of courses intended to help you prepare for CAPM and PMP certification exam. RECOMMENDED: It is good for everyone gearing toward a career in Project Management to have basic to intermediate skills in an Office Productivity Suite, such as Microsoft Office 365. We highly recommend enrolling in the SkillUp EdTech Office Productivity Software Specialization, which covers Word Processing, Spreadsheets, PowerPoint, Messaging, and Email....

Top reviews

AM

Jul 9, 2023

Excellent course. The instructors are very motivating and knowledgeable. I really appreciate their professional, hands-on perspective on the topics covered, which they share throughout the sessions.

VG

Oct 28, 2024

It's a lot of information, and for me, as a newbie, some topics were difficult to understand. The course itself is well structured, with good information shared.

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By Bobby A

Sep 29, 2024

It is very informative. However, it is quite dry and monotonous, unengaging and repetitive. it is essentially one long power point broken down into shorter videos presentations with intermittent video recording of professionals talking about their experience. The latter being fairly useful. The voice behind the power-point-like videos sounds so consistently monotonous that it is likely AI generated. Another issue I have with this course is the inconsistency of the example materials used in the teaching videos. For instance, instead of walking you through the phases of a particular project in order to demonstrate how the various pieces of documentation are developed throughout the planning phase, they use a different project to illustrate each type of document. Then you get to the final project where you have to generate a RBS and the template provided is not even the same as the one used in the teaching video. Overall, it's not terrible but it's far from great, and there's certainly room for improvement.

By Jane W

Nov 19, 2024

The course content was okay, although not as engaging or thorough as some other courses I have taken. I was really not impressed with the peer-grading for the assignment, though. There is no guarantee that a peer reviewer will have the expertise or will put in the effort to properly grade the assignment. I submitted an assignment (which had content for all sections) and received a grade of 50% because that reviewer said I hadn't submitted content for two sections. I then submitted the exact same assignment, absolutely no changes, and received a grade of 100%. So the assignment grades are meaningless. I much prefer the automated grading for the course I did through DeepLearning.AI.

By Jules C

Mar 2, 2024

Some materials are buggy but over all good.

By Didzis V

Oct 31, 2024

There is jab, hook and uppercut in boxing. OK, enough talking. Rocky, now you have to figure out how to win World title. That's how this course felt. Typos, long, empty videos. Rushed on important parts, lengthened on unimportant part. Something is mentioned, in the test you have to be able to use it. Most of the course I had to study outside the Coursera - Youtube, google. If this course was meant as a index for things you should learn, then just provide list and I can find it myself. Final task was weird. You are given project that can be interpreted as you wish and then other people who are just as stupid as you are grading it not even diving in the numbers and other stuff. If the document has version number and project title - you are ok. Passed. :D

By Alin M

Sep 6, 2023

-a lot of the videos are read by some AI robot, it just sounds weird and it's kinda hard to follow

-mistakes and inconsistencies in the material make it hard to learn new information

-some of the audio recordings of presented videos are very poor in quality

By Mateo H

May 29, 2024

peer editing is so annoying. don't make my completion dependant on that..

By Jefe B

May 7, 2024

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