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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 Silvia I

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Feb 1, 2022

Very helpful, still so much to learn. I really do well with the hands on approach. I am not able to see the comments made on my projects. Do I just go back in the course and backspace?

By Kemoya S

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Nov 16, 2021

I appreciate the information presented in course and the way it's presented. I'm however disappointed that my final peer review lost a mark because a reviewer deviated from the rubric.

By Ogunleye M

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May 10, 2023

This course is packed with so much information. I wish there were a way we could use one of the tools discussed in the course. Overall I enjoyed every bit of the information shared.

By Zoe L

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Jul 30, 2023

I'd love to learn more about SMART Goals, OKRs, RACI charts, stakeholder analysis and the project charter but overall, I really loved the course structure and examples and exercises.

By Stephanie M H

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Sep 3, 2021

This course is a bit more difficult than the first course in the Project Management Google Program. With determination, and a little extra time, I was able to complete this course.

By Patrick D

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Sep 30, 2023

It is a great course, but I wish when you got answers incorrect that they would show you the right answer or give you an explanation instead of sending you back to the full video.

By RAVI T T

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Jun 7, 2021

Course is well detailed but could not sync with the tutor's slang for some words like "Success". Very easy to learn and the pattern of the learning is quick to absorb the content.

By Ekarit A

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Feb 23, 2022

Good course for those who don't have any experience and also for an experienced Project manager to. You'll find some best-practice that we are using in project management field.

By Pohumka D D

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Sep 9, 2022

This course has been very impactfull and inspiring. Thank you to the instructor and the entire team for putting together this course. Thank you cousera for the financial aid.

By Natasha S

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Aug 24, 2021

Very well done, lots of useful information, but what I was missing is a high-level step-by-step practical guide, maybe one-two lessons. Other than that I am very satisfied!

By Aaron

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Dec 4, 2022

Great content but the peer review system needs to be taking out. Some users will fail you even though you've clearly me the all the criteria and leave you with no feedback.

By Ramanan K

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Nov 2, 2021

Great course lot of useful tips and real world examples. Wish they also provided more course notes / materials to keep and follow with. I'd highly recommend this to anyone.

By Frank A

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Apr 15, 2024

I learned a lot, but I think what you create questions to should derive from the main points, I felt like a couple were blindsided questions. Overall, i learned a lot!!!

By Welly L

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Sep 27, 2021

i think personally problem will be on when piers rate your submission. its quite diff to know whether they rate it rightly or just cos want u to rate theirs afterwards

By Alkema T J

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Mar 24, 2023

Great! The only thing I don't love is waiting for a peer grade. It can sometimes take a while, but I send out messages in the discussion groups, and that helps alot.

By Tarryn W

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Apr 17, 2021

Great course materials - sync between devices isn't great. Often I complete a a section on my ipad and it doesn't update / mark as complete when I am on desktop.

By Alison B

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Jul 31, 2022

This course was comprehensive and filled with great information and tools that I will be able to use going forward as I embark on my project management carreer!

By Salah A

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Dec 28, 2022

i was wealthy, full information, detailed.

thank you coursera for you effort, also thanks to google and lecturer for sharing their experiences and knowledge.

By Amit S

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Mar 27, 2022

It could have been 5 star if the course had an ratio of 70% interactive/Visual/In-Person & 30% reading material. But though the course is worth taking :)

By Lauren P

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Sep 8, 2021

I learned a lot...incredible amount of material!!! However, I preferred the instructor from the Foundations course. Totally personal opinion, of course.

By Leonardo V

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Dec 11, 2022

A great way to learn how to learn and start initiating a project with the right tools, documentation,key roles , strategies plus a lot more. I really

By Katarzyna Z

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May 22, 2022

Great course foe everyone from entry level to advances positions. Always nice to have something like this to refresh knowledge. Great instructors, too!

By Melina A

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Feb 7, 2023

Some of the learning material provides conflicting information with correct answers in the Quiz, making the concepts a little more confusing to grasp.

By Maria J B

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Jul 10, 2023

I think it was a very informative course. I think it could be better digested if it was divided into 2 parts and a little more practice on the tools.

By Evan M

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May 1, 2023

More guidenc on RACI charts and how to use tools. Maybe have working examples for example.

Create a RACI char and have the system give live feedback.