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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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GK

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This is a good course offered by Google via Coursera. More examples based on real life secanrio and day to day activties need to be included for better understanding of people from all industries.

JH

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Very informative. This course allows you to view how a project charter is created then gives you the opportunity to do it yourself. It also introduces an array of tools to help manage a project.

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By Oluwapelumi O

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Jul 30, 2023

The course gave me more insight into what the project initiation phase of a project looks like. It exposed me to the basics and made me more informed on the roles performed by a project manager in the project initiation phase.

By Ye H K

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Jul 12, 2021

It's awesome to have to know that all the essential detailed requirements to craft a great project charter with the practical examples. It's worth spending time for those want to be a great project manager or program manager.

By Sue D

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Jun 9, 2021

I am having no problem staying motivated to work through the six courses of this Google Project Management: Professional CertificateOpens in a new tab. It's a high quality course, and I am excited about starting the next course of the series.

By De H

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Jan 2, 2023

Great class! The Project Charter Exercise was an excellent example to complete. The Project Charter is a key document for PMs and this sample was very basic but robust enough to capture the learning content in this module.

By KD M

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Aug 20, 2022

Great synallbus with hands-on experience narratives guiding the course, and the content is engaging and relative to the corporate and start-up work environment with transferrable knowledge to use in the day-to-day PM role.

By Jonathan L

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Jan 13, 2022

Some issues getting attention to peer-reviewed assignments, but the content itself is getting better (also difficult, but in a good way) as we progress through the module. Feels like I'm learning and the structure is great!

By Opeoluwa F

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Mar 6, 2023

I enjoyed every bit of this course. The Instructor was quite easy to understand and was able to pass the message eloquently. The material got me inquisitive and went on to read most of the links for extended reading. Kudos

By Arnold B

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Feb 20, 2023

This specialization is a must for anyone who wants to go into Project Management and this particular course will give you everything you need to know, plus the community, to be able to understand how to initiate a project.

By Angela N

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Nov 13, 2022

Excellent e-learning! I got so much out of the variety of the learning modalities: video, reading quizzes, discussion forum as well as the homework. Looking forward to putting the rigor of project planning into practice.

By Christiane A S

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Jun 20, 2022

This course was extremely interesting! I enjoyed it very much. I have learned a number of important information and tools. I feel more and more involved in this program. Thank you so much for our wonderful instructor.

By Daniel M d S

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Jan 29, 2022

Very good course, well explained by the trainers and in fluent language that anyone, regardless of nationality, can understand. Good tools to work with. It really helps the real examples in each course. Thank you so much

By Frank I (

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Sep 12, 2021

My Project Initiation course is an eye opener for me. So much I didn't know about project management initiation until now. Excellent presentation and organization of the course. I loved every bit of it.

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By Himanshi J

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May 14, 2021

It is great course for all beginners who want to start their career in project management. it covers all the topics and guides you through all details and knowledge required in the field of project management. Thank you.

By Ayanna S

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Oct 26, 2022

This was a very exceptional detailed module on Project Initiation. I have learned a lot and the information is relevant and adaptable to the work environment. I enjoyed the course and look forward to the other courses.

By Wendy P

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Aug 27, 2022

This course provided a lot of useful material, the instructor was great and I am really learning a lot of valuable information that can be applied both to project management and outside of project manangement as well!

By Davinder S

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May 22, 2022

Awesome to learn importance of successful initiating a project to ensure successful delivery to customer. Course 2 of 6 completed on the journey to learn more about Project Management to apply easily to my current role.

By Aflouat A W

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Aug 28, 2021

You will learn how to run smoothly the initiation phase of a project, stakeholder analysis, RACI chart and project charter and différencies between work management tools , straight forward tools and collaboration tools

By Janice V

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Jul 2, 2022

I enjoyed reading the materials for they're not only meaty but practical. I appreciates the activities for it not only help me recall the past lessons but it made me experience what it is like to be in management team.

By Sonia E E

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Nov 1, 2021

Loved the courses and new skills I learned. I was very happy to learn new things about using a spreadsheet. Had a love-hate relationship with the Peer-review but it pushed me out of my comfort zone and I'm glad for it.

By Raphael G

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Sep 16, 2021

This course is well structured. The content is more challenging than the one in the previous course, and "weeks" tend to take longer time (2 to 3 hours) . This was my first experience with peer-reviewed assignments :)

By Muhammad M A

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May 20, 2023

Its a great course, I am trying to gain my skills and knowledge through this course, i want to take benifet from this course,as much as i can . and also, i am thinking that, Why i have not taken this course earlier.

By Siddhartha N

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Apr 5, 2023

Excellent course and learnings from Google Coursera. Well defined and cared training with engaging hands-on experiences. Many useful templates and insightful knowledge links are added advantages. Highly recommended.

By عبدالله ا

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Oct 8, 2021

This course taught me many basics and tools to start projects and how to work and communicate with the work team and clinic owners. This course also helped me learn about tools that help facilitate project management

By Eugene W

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Dec 31, 2023

Overall, it's easy, but because project initiation is a foreign concept for most of us, it is a bit tedious, until we become fluent in the procedure. I think that the course does a great job at introducing us to it.

By Veera J

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Oct 6, 2022

Extensive course with several templates to help in succeeding in project management. I'll move on to continue with the other parts of the certification, encouraged by the quality of content on these first courses.