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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

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.

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.

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By Arnold B

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Dec 21, 2022

The course was well-taught, and was the information presented kept me engaged. The only issue I had was with the peer-graded assignments. The peers who graded my assignments merely copied & pasted suggested comments rather than give insightful feedback.

By marian

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Apr 8, 2022

This course was HARD, thorough. there is so much i still need to do. i just started a business so using all the tools i learned to help my business. yester i drafted the business charter. now i am developing a spreadsheet of task. thank you so much Google

By Muhammad S M

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Dec 31, 2021

Very informative; highly recommended to beginners, like myself, to get familiarized with the project management role and responsibilities. Specifically, it includes essential information like the OKRs, RACI chart, Stakeholder analysis, and SMART goals etc

By Christian W

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Jan 13, 2024

A practical and complete view of all components of the initiation phase of projects. It was engaging, instructive and entertaining. Content is full of varied materials and videos. Learning this way is a great method to retain knowledge in the long term.

By Madeeha J B

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Jun 15, 2023

It helps in organizing thoughts, understanding project management jargon, and setting the right direction for a project. The course content is concise and avoids unnecessary corporate language, making it easy to follow and apply in real-world scenarios.

By wanjiru h

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Feb 20, 2023

Every bit of information has been applicable in my real life as a project engineer. I did not know there was so much I was doing blindly or from a point of unprofessionalism. Thank you for putting together the course and making it easy to access online.

By Sai A V

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Jan 23, 2023

This course gave a great insight on the resources and elements required to initiate the project. It provided information on how to buy-in your stakeholders, how to choose your team and how to divide the work among your team and update your stakeholders.

By Elena G

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Jun 6, 2022

My option is to learn the aspect of the project and have big inspiration before you proceed the project.Before you start the project you need to plan everything you have a feedback and knowledge about everynting or use tools as to succest your goal.

By Danny C

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Jun 18, 2022

Un curso recomendado, documentación clara, ejemplos practicos y apegados a la realidad, comparhttps://www.coursera.org/?ten formatos de ejemplo y las clases y material es muy comprensivo. En la etapa de inicio de un proyecto este es un excelente curso.

By Angie J V

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Mar 25, 2022

Creo que proporciona todos los fundamentos necesarios para iniciar esta fase en los que estamos interesados en dirigir un proyecto. Los cuestionarios son excelentes, le permiten a uno analizar e identificar las respuestas poniéndose en el rol de un PM.

By Nishan C

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Jul 26, 2021

Great introduction to the fundamentals of project initiation. In this course you’ll learn the importance of defining project goals and scope, how to work effectively with stakeholders, project documentation, and tools you can use to start your project.

By Sooriyaarchchige B S

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Feb 25, 2023

I can Give it 5 stars, everything is perfect, and the syllabus, educational material and content, sample exercises and the way the instructors present it...great!. recommend to anyone who hopes to learn PM, I really appreciate the effort of everybody.

By Elise K

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Apr 12, 2022

Allows you to learn in a variety of different ways- videos, discussion boards, peer-reviewed assignments, quizzes, and pop-up questions. Keeps you super engaged (Speaker talks a little slow for me so I sped up the videos to 1.25). Loved the course :)

By Martin L C

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Jul 18, 2021

Thanks to this course my life will be better. It helps you to organize your every day job. You just need to follow the instructions. I had worked before as a project management but I was no good at organizing so many different tasks and stakeholders.

By Daniela P A S

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Aug 11, 2022

I love this course, concepts are common sense however it goes to a deep dive on how to achieve the important steps of initiation.

It is very clear and substantial, all content is relevant to the responsabilities as PM and accountability for our teams.

By Deborah L

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Jun 8, 2022

Great, easy to follow course. My only criticism is the peer marked project as it appears there are a lot of people who aren't taking the course seriously or don't understand the task, so it doesn't feel fair that they should mark other people's work.

By Patrick B

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Jul 24, 2021

this has been a great eye opening experience for me ive learn how to mange project initiate, plan charter create documents spread sheets tool like mitigating issues scope of things goals ,achiveable and delierables i could go on but you get the jist

By Lauren W

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Oct 13, 2021

Project Initiation: Starting a Successful project provided great examples and tools in a well organized manner. The material was presented in a way that allowed the curriculum to be easily understood and was applicable to many industries and fields.

By Viviane P

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Jun 15, 2023

As someone with disability, it is amazing how the Google team are techy-savvy and make everything seems very simple and not complicated to understand. If I need, I can just review the video, take notes again and everything is clear :) LOVE IT!!!

By Haseeb J

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Apr 29, 2023

It's a fantastic course because it provides so much in-depth details in a simple, easy-to-understand way. Recommended for people going from entry-level project management knowledge toward advanced and pro level in the field of Project Management.

By KARL K

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Jul 5, 2022

The most difficult is loading an assignment. Forward thinking easier document attachment system would work a lot better the attaching URls and, htts to upload a document, or a chart. Getting a better to gasp, and greater understand of project.

By Syed W A K

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Mar 28, 2022

It's a knowledgeable course for me since it's guided me to work on a project systematically and effectively. I would highly recommend it to those who are interested in project management as it will help them get into a project management career.

By Nigina D

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Dec 18, 2021

excellent content, clear and accessible. Peer-rated assignment are my favorite part, its nice to get feedback from your peers and see their work. Reading material is also relevant, as well as templets. Definitely worthy of time, effort and cost.

By Valentin D

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Sep 5, 2021

Best course I have ever taken (out of 20 or so). Filled with practical assignments and good examples. It is definitely a more time consuming course, but you will actually get your hands dirty with a lot of project management documents & skills.

By Felipe C T

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Sep 1, 2021

The entire course has been a surprise, since I have learned that only in one phase of a project's journey cycle, there can be many ways to approach this phase and administer it as we see better depending on the tool that best suits the process.