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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 Ande M

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Apr 19, 2022

Course content is great, the biggest drawback is the issue of peer reviews or rather being reviewed by someone who hasn't got a clue what's going on. Currently, there is no way to dispute this, one is at the mercy of their "peers".

By Lauryn M

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Jun 9, 2022

I enjoyed learning about everything in this course, I think for me the instructor was a bit difficult to keep my attention at times so I missed some points and had to re-review information. Overall, good information and exercises.

By HINES, K M

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Feb 10, 2023

I learned a lot, but some of the information was repeated when it didn't need to be. And honestly, the presenter was sort of fake and annoying and constantly mispronounced "success". Really annoying to hear over and over again.

By Heather T

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May 13, 2021

This course presented a lot of information and was very helpful. The quizzes were sometimes worded in a strange way and also included so many questions with "select all that apply", maybe rework them before using them again.

By K S

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Mar 20, 2024

Course breakdowns, especially on videos, are not properly done compared to course 1. The whole course's exams tackle questions that are not discussed in the lecture. I thought this course would be easy, but no, it's not.

By Andrea M

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Oct 24, 2022

The peer graded tasks don't make sense. the course overall is very good but the peer grades are just a lazy concept, why would I know enough to grade someone else who is learning at the same level as me?? LAZY concept.

By Andrea M

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May 2, 2021

I like this course and how practical it is. I would like to get better feedback for the assignments. it could be sharing some examples of good and bad responses. it might be possible include in a thread in the forum.

By Nivedita R

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Oct 4, 2023

I loved the courses and the introduction to different topics under the modules . I do, however think that , there can be more time and assignments dedicated to different softwares , thier use and their application.

By Eze I

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Mar 31, 2023

Project Initiation was quite interesting. But I would suggest more hands on or assignment on creating project charters , RACI etc to build knowledge and skills on how to create or document these project documents.

By Edgar H

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Jul 11, 2022

The intensity increases; this course proved to be more challenging and in-depth than the introduction. Google does an efficient job in creating a learning tool that entices visual and reading style learners alike.

By Raiza V

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Sep 12, 2022

The videos, readings, and quizzes are top notch. However, reer reviewed projects is a failure at this level of learning. It truly depends on someone's Engligh comprehension whether they will pass you or not.

By Mayank S

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Feb 9, 2022

Nicely done! Learned a lot of stuff in this course what all things we need to keep in mind while initiating a project. All kinds of tools and the best part was about the Stakeholder Analysis that was done.

By Junia D

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Aug 21, 2021

I liked the project and learning new material. Some of the material were a lot harder, I wish some of the assignments would have helped me grasps the content a lot better. Overall, I enjoyed this course.

By Lorena G

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Feb 25, 2024

The level is on the lower level of the beginner range. Most of us have already used some tools to manage at least tasks if not projects, so too much was spent on tools we would already be familiar with.

By Renata G

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Jul 2, 2023

It's still a bit tricky to flex between work management and project management tools, they seem quite versatile & if you haven't use them before, sometimes hard to remember, what are the possibilities.

By Sandra T

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May 23, 2022

Contents are perfect, but I don´t understand why do I have to wait 1 month for my peers to grade my assignment, I can´t dowload my certificate becuase of that and I think that shouldn´t be happening.

By Aakash K

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Jun 20, 2023

Everything was good except the getting marked by other people. I dont think its the best way to practice and the course should design some way to get more practice in for RACI and Project charter.

By George M K

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Jul 13, 2022

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.

By Mahmoud T

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Jul 19, 2023

I would prefer that there be translation available for all languages, but in fact the course and its content are of great importance for those who want to start in the field of project management

By Tahir R

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Jan 10, 2023

Great course, lots of information! Just wish there were more practice problems in regards to the tools we learned about, as well as a section focusing on how to prepare for interview questions.

By Carlos M D

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Jun 22, 2021

A bit confusing at the beginning and this is weird because a good foundation is supposed to guarantee a good project. Also, I needed to see how the management tools and RACI charts can connect.

By Alson C

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Sep 24, 2022

I understand the appropriateness of the peer review activities, but I'm not a fan of them. I graded several assignments for others but initially had difficulty getting anyone to reciprocate.

By TERI B

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Nov 2, 2022

I learned so much from this course however painful it was at times. I just wish there was someone I could reach out to when I'm stuck. More than the chat screen which didn't help me at all.

By Prabha R

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Mar 26, 2022

The course was simple and easy to learn.

It would have been nice if it included a little more video session about the one of the popular Project Management software like Jira or Basemecamp.

By Binita T

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Feb 18, 2022

It was very educational but some of the topics were just glossed over and the assignments became confusing but the anser sheet solved problems differently then how i intercepted the problem