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About the Course

This is the third course in the Google Project Management Certificate program. This course will explore how to map out a project in the second phase of the project life cycle: the project planning phase. You will examine the key components of a project plan, how to make accurate time estimates, and how to set milestones. Next, you will learn how to build and manage a budget and how the procurement processes work. Then, you will discover tools that can help you identify and manage different types of risk and how to use a risk management plan to communicate and resolve risks. Finally, you will explore how to draft and manage a communication plan and how to organize project documentation. 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: - Describe the components of the project planning phase and their significance. - Explain why milestones are important and how to set them. - Make accurate time estimates and describe techniques for acquiring them from team members. - Identify tools and best practices to build a project plan and risk management plan. - Describe how to estimate, track, and maintain a budget. - Explain the procurement process and identify key procurement documentation. - Draft a communication plan and explain how to manage it. - Explain why milestones are important and how to set them. - Explain why a project plan is necessary and what components it contains. - Make accurate time estimates and describe techniques for acquiring them from team members....

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The course is very well explained and aligned to basic requirements to be a Project Manager but it can be little short and upto the point, cause for working professionals like me. it is too lengthy.

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It had a really good and informative conten and the instructor was great. I give it 4 stars because the peer graded assignment is taking too long to grade my assignment so i can get my certificate.

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By Maheswaran k

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Aug 26, 2024

Course content is too long & less engaging even for an experienced professional. Course instructor is highly knowledgeable, language is clear but looking serious (Hardly smiles) most of the time & its not helpful to engage & focus in a static video lecture environment. [ I do have similar characteristics as an engineering professional & that's out of trend in current timeline! ] I Understand we have a general topic for project plants pal, easy to understand for all group of people. But, using the same for all examples & case studies is not interesting on repetitively used in all chapters & modules. [ Yes. I understand one common theme explained for all 6 chapters makes learning easier & give a whole picture, but its neither engaging nor interesting ]

By Bathsheba S N

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Nov 14, 2022

The course reading material was well put together, but the videos could be better. The instructor was knowledgeable and covered crucial points, however throughout the course it felt rushed and there was no mapping - Eg Instructor would start with "Here are 5 reasons" and the video should continue to what are those 5 reasons or key points of a plan and describe those, but the instructor was not following any order, they were starting with Reason 1, and then 2, and instead of 3 would go into another topic related to reason 2, and from there jump to totally irrelevant topic to these 5 reasons we started to learn. This structure of information created information overload, and could not map in the brain to be used later.

By Lawrence S

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Jul 14, 2022

My rating is more like 3.5 stars, and my concerns are (also) around the peer review portion of this course. I personally "reviewed" several submissions that were clearly plagarized, and in one instance they were given to me back-to-back. Since these same people are responsible for reviewing my work, I am left not entirely sure if I am understanding the course material or just the recipient of a passing grade from someone who is trying to cut as many corners as possible to get to their certificate.

As a whole, I walked away from the course feeling relatively confident that I understood the material presented but if someone asked me whether or not they should take this course, it would come with several caveats.

By Tanichea B

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Sep 11, 2022

The content was fine. Peer review cheapens the quality of the course. I had an incident where a student took off points when I followed the directions exactly and my answers were identical to the grading rubric. Gave no explanation or point of view. Contacted support and they were not helpful. Just said to keep submitting until my grade is satisfactory. I question if I want to continue putting money into this program. They really ought to have designated moderators grading these assignments if my "peers" are not going to follow directions properly.

By Feifei N

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Sep 1, 2023

This course has lots of information, and I think this has less of structrual than previously courses, when I looked at the notes I took for the course, I had a hard time adjusting and figure out if they is more or less relvent to the topic. also the PPT slide in the vides has way too many words. I get it you are trying to explain it better, however, it only makes worse. I don't want to go through it all all, because it so lengthy . I would recomnend this course to redesign the structure a bit better in the video content.

By A M (

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May 1, 2022

learning objectives and outcomes do not align with the course content or quizzes. I found that many concepts were barely covered, perhaps in a sentence or two. Absolutely dislike how the assignments are designed especially the peer review ones. There is no answer sheet so your grades are dependent on what peers perceive as the correct answer, no coherence. The instructor's camera shots did not match the direction of the camera, and this made it even more evident that a teleprompter was being used.

By Brad T

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May 3, 2022

The material is presented with well made graphics and tools. However, the pace of the course is very frustrating. Much of the content is obvious, but the user has no choice but to grind through easy & tedious activities and quizes.

Respectfully, the pace of the speech in the videos is agonizing. The presenter would take a full beat to carefully pronounce a word, then pause, then slowly discuss a point. It made me wonder if this course is intended for non-English speakers... or children.

By Prawar P

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Jun 8, 2021

Compared to the previous two courses i found this course pretty dull and boring, although the relevant reading materials were very informative but somewhere the tutor, Rowena was failing to engage the students. It seemed like she was just reading a transcript which we could do ourselves by referring the video transcript given below the video. I felt a little bit bored during the video lectures as there was no encouragement due to the style of tutor.

By Anh L

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Jul 26, 2021

Unlike, the two first parts, this course has much less "reading" sections that summarize videos. In the two other parts, we always had written sections that summarized concepts and key learnings. Here, you need to take too much notes from videos and it makes it difficult when we want to come back to look for information. While the course is good, this is killing it for me when compared to the two first courses.

By Ruth N

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Jul 30, 2022

I liked the start of the course, but it became somewhat complicated towards the end. I felt like I was trying to play catch-up and failing. My aim of beginning this course isn't just to acquire a certificate, but to also understand it. However, I felt this course somewhat defeated my purpose. It felt a bit too advanced and a little too long and tedious. It was demotivavting.

By Derek D

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Dec 5, 2022

I thought it was great, but some of the concepts were difficult, and even after reading and watching everything, I still didn't fully understand it. I also struggle with the course's communication methods and interacting with other learners. The course design invites many cheaters, and people are not fully bought into the process. This diminishes the value of the course.

By Edit H

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Nov 1, 2022

This course had a lot to cover and wasn't as thorough as I had hoped. The content shared wasn't as connected to the end of week quizzes as the previous courses. What I mean by that is, I take thorough notes during the lessons so I can refer to them for the quiz and I had to retake multiple quizzes because the information provided weren't in line with the quiz questions.

By Clarence W

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Jun 25, 2024

All of the courses for this certification were very informative. However, the presenters grossly overstate the job market prospects for newly certified PM's. The likelihood of finding work without extensive prior PM experience is actually quite slim with the vast majority of job postings also requiring PM's to be subject matter experts.

By Courtney G

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Jul 13, 2022

Content was good but man was this a wretched slog. I hated this in comparison to the first two portions of this course. Too many videos, not enough graphics or interactions, too much time staring at that poor woman's face. You can do better than this. Even just giving her some props would help. Dang, that was awful.

By Frank D

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Dec 1, 2021

This is one of two courses out of the six for project management where I have had to extend my deadlines multiple times after submitting a peer-graded assignment ahead of time. Great info in the course otherwise for someone looking to either solidify the basics of project management, or get started from scratch.

By Michael O

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Dec 30, 2021

I found the course instructor's delivery of the course material to be flat and almost robotic. Her use of hand gestures was unnecessary and distracted from what I was trying to learn. In addition, I could see that she was reading text off a monitor, because the monitor wasn't properly centered over the camera.

By Jeffisa D

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Sep 26, 2023

So far, this course took longer time to complete. Some part because of there are more than 1 assignments. The other part is because I couldn't feel the emotion from the mentor. It will be good if the mentor is more expressive because it will help to encourage and motivate me to complete the course.

By Sabrina C

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Mar 2, 2023

The course has good content and information, however, the peer-graded assignments can be unfairly graded and there is nothing you can do. Additionally, it can delay your course completion until someone grades it. Of all the certification courses so far, this one was my least favourite.

By Julyan A F

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Jan 13, 2023

It was very well organized and had lots of good information. My only gripe is there was a seemingly endless amount of documents that after a while became wearisome. It's hard to remember the names and types of documents that were covered in this portion of the course.

By Josue G

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Mar 4, 2022

Material was ok, but unfortunatelly the presenter, Rowena, did not know how to present the information. It was obvious she was reading, both by she moving her eyes and the pauses she made between words. Also, she was with no energy through all of the course.

By manish t

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Feb 2, 2022

The trainer was reading from some screen all the time. It was very difficult to concentrate while taking the class. Unlike the first 2 courses, this one was difficult purely for the above reason.

Rest, the content was good and exemplars were comprehensive.

By Ana A

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Nov 10, 2022

I found this course challenging to follow. I am a teacher myself, but I did not align with the instructor, which was probably why it took me longer to finish the course. However, I did learn useful and essential information, for which I am thankful.

By Julio D R

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Jun 23, 2021

Algunos temas tocaban temas importantes de una forma muy superficial, en mi consideración no tan detallada o de forma cuidadosa para llevarlo a la vida laboral, como el manejo de presupuestos, gestión de riesgos y el hablar de términos legales.

By Amy S

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Dec 7, 2021

The course was fine, but there were some spelling mistakes in the video transcripts, especially with the "&" symbol. Also: some of us were doing the course for our current jobs, so the last bit about interviewing should have been optional.

By Yoni Y

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Jul 4, 2021

I didn't care for the instructor very much and thought she was a bit dry. You could clearly see she was just reading the script and didn't feel very genuine.

Also I felt the content was less organized than the previous courses.