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About the Course

This is the fourth course in the Google Project Management Certificate program. This course will delve into the execution and closing phases of the project life cycle. You will learn what aspects of a project to track and how to track them. You will also learn how to effectively manage and communicate changes, dependencies, and risks. As you explore quality management, you will learn how to measure customer satisfaction and implement continuous improvement and process improvement techniques. Next, you will examine how to prioritize data, how to use data to inform your decision-making, and how to effectively present that data. Then, you will strengthen your leadership skills as you study the stages of team development and how to manage team dynamics. After that, you will discover tools that provide effective project team communication, how to organize and facilitate meetings, and how to effectively communicate project status updates. Finally, you will examine the steps of the project closing process and how to create and share project closing 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: - Identify what aspects of a project to track and compare different tracking methods. - Discuss how to effectively manage and communicate changes, dependencies, and risks. - Explain the key quality management concepts of quality standards, quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control. - Describe how to create continuous improvement and process improvement and how to measure customer satisfaction. - Explain the purpose of a retrospective and describe how to conduct one. - Demonstrate how to prioritize and analyze data and how to communicate a project’s data-informed story. - Identify tools that provide effective project team communication and explore best practices for communicating project status updates. - Describe the steps of the closing process for stakeholders, the project team, and project managers....

Top reviews

IB

Aug 7, 2023

With this course, you will better be running the project with not be afraid have the mistake. I combine running with real-life projects at my company.

Thanks to my guru on this course your the best

NN

Mar 8, 2022

facilitators for this whole programme have presented this so well, I would recommend the course to anyone wanting to start a career in project management as I believe they will be set up for success.

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By Benjamin A

May 16, 2022

This one was probably the "slowest" course to get through out of the professesional certificate program. If you have any experiance in a professional environment, much of this is common knowleadge, ie. how to write and email, how to run a meeting.

By Ani S

Sep 27, 2022

i have finished the course but for some reason it tells me that i have not finished it yet and makes me watch the same wrap up video over and over again not giving me the certificate. is there any issue with the course or with the corsera?

By Marcos H C

Dec 7, 2023

As a data savy manager and heavy user, the way the data part is pictured is just wrong. Way too basic and build up with the wrong focus the be actually actionable. I think any other Data user will have raised the hands to the sky as I did.

By Jeremy D

Oct 2, 2023

Google and Coursera need to actually hold people accountable for these courses. No one really participates and quite simply replies with a "." the entire course, and both companies lose their credibility when there isn't accountability.

By Sajan D

Nov 21, 2022

overall course is nicely designed ,however many topics and terminology are repetativein each course which create a lot of confusion .plz review and make every stage of course unique and more practical

By JOKE A

Aug 11, 2023

I cannot continue progressively learning because the courses need to open. I received the message as follows:

''Sorry, we are down for maintenance. We will be back up shortly''.

- Joke Adeyemi

By Adam C

Apr 23, 2023

I should not have to commit to peer reviewed/graded assignments. What qualifies them to review and grade me if they are pursuing and thus lacking the same certification?

By Unice K

Nov 28, 2021

is that normal peer review took longer than a month ? is it a strategy to charge submission fees for a longer time by not letting students finish the course?

By Anas R

Oct 21, 2021

The course is basic. I was hoping for some serious tips/insights from Googlers about how they actually go about their projects. It is BASIC.

By Ahipue J

Aug 5, 2022

this course is good but i dont know why it takes so long to verify you have finished a course when you have done so.

By Zach S

Dec 24, 2021

some of the information discussed seem like it was just busy work and had nothing to do with project management

By Ashley D T

Feb 8, 2024

The content in this course seemed duplicated. Module 3, 4, and 5 could have bee shortened substantially.

By Kartik K

Apr 21, 2021

A lacking effort!

Rating (Specialization) after (Course) 4: 2.5/5

By Carlo

Dec 29, 2022

This course is way too long.

By alwalid k

Feb 14, 2023

21

By Esky M

Apr 29, 2023

Quite disappointed with this course and about how it was designed.

Despite this course being deeply in the context of "Project Execution", the phase as extremely crucial as "Project Planning" for all project managers, I found this course lacking in hands-on practices/demonstrations. It was often about solely memorizing the words and phrases the instructor said or mentioned in order for us (learners) to pass the upcoming quiz…For example, do we really need to memorize the types of dependencies? Um..., it would be good to know the differences, but the more important thing should be what we as PM are supposed to do if one of the two tasks (they depend on one another) can not be completed in time, right? Another issue that I noticed was that there were no details of KPIs. Instead, this course only touched on it in the end by stating "Your impact report describes how you met those goals or objectives against your KPIs"... Why not instruct us how to make and use KPIs??

Furthermore, whether we like it or not, all the previous courses often made use of a fictional company called "Office Green" in quizzes and as example cases, but it rarely appeared in this course, so I sometimes had a difficulty in picturing or visualizing the instructor's explanations in my head.

Since the Project Execution phase is where real issues, changes, and very unexpected things arise, I really wish that this course had been better designed with more hands-on practices including more illustrations/images instead of just theory-after-theory instructions.

And make it max. 5 weeks, not 6 weeks, for future learners. Way too long ☹️

By Raeann C

Jul 18, 2022

Everything (for the most part) is great, with one HUGE exception. The peer review assessments. One, they are incredibly hard to follow as the directions are not at all clear. Two, they are being graded by other students in the course, they are not experts in the field. As a teacher I find this infureating because I know how to grade things, and students who are just learning how to do this are not the best graders. This is the reason I will be looking to get this certificate elsewhere.

By Ian K

Aug 21, 2022

this is the only grade where my peer reviews are innacurate. i have not had fun spending a lot of time producing effective and accurate information to the assignment for week 5 i hope to get feedback because i am producing good work and if i am messing up i would ike the correct feedback on the peer graded assignment that matches up to what i submitted.

By Kreshnik B

May 31, 2022

I have prepared everything in due time and still waiting for months to receive my grade for assignment! this really does not make any sense.

got the certificate for all other courses but with this something not proper

By Eva M M L

Nov 17, 2023

Too much theory that will be easily forgotten. The important concepts have not been worked correctly in the practical exercises. Outdated and unhelpful teaching method. Very disappointing.

By J. H

Jul 26, 2023

terrible, not clear, test is a disgrace. Answers are correct or confusingly meant to deter people from passing. fuck whomever came up with the final test.

By Ana C E N

Nov 16, 2022

Hi! I completed this course in its entirety and I'm still seeing it as incomplete. Can you please help me out or tell me what I can do?

Thank you!

By Cassandra S

May 19, 2022

i enrolled in this course accidentally and now i cannot enroll? I am only on the second course for this certification and am very frustrated.

By Vishal

May 3, 2023

Bed

I m already

submit all stuff but there only show 99% done course n in Coursera

app this is show 100%

By Jerome G

May 24, 2024

Too long. Can be made more concise. You learn at work, what the course is telling you to learn.