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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....

Top reviews

SP

Jan 23, 2024

Although I took this course first before the foundation of project management I found I have known many terms in my real life so eager to start to learn more in-depth qualities of project management.

MG

Feb 7, 2022

everything is excellent. but i am facing the problem that says 'upgrade to submit' when i traied to submit the peer graded assignment. and it is been 3 weeks i stucked on this module. please help me.

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By Ivan K

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May 31, 2021

The course features bad advice. For example, it says that reducing email response time by 20% is a good project goal, it is not, using that as a project goal would mean that if you reduced it by 19% the project has failed and if you reduced it by 20% by the deadline but it went back up after you finished the project, the project "succeeded" but nothing has actually improved.

Another example of bad advice from this course is the recommendation that no matter what the project manager should not accept any scope changes from team members. This is profoundly unrealistic, in the real world you will never predict all aspects of the project correctly and if you never accept changes to the project that your team recommends based on new discoveries they came across while working on it, you will 1) alienate your team 2) produce a product that includes features that do not make sense or work poorly because you ignored empiricism and went with your initial guesses instead.

By Karabas B

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Oct 25, 2023

1. 1-5 courses where is mostly water - you have to squeeze it very well to identify a piece of meaningful information. Very diluted, like women soap romance book. 2. No quality control. No real teachers are available in this course - considering it as a shame! I never heard that students are forced to grade each other in any reputable educational institution! That annihilate any educational purpose. Where has this been seen in any reputable educational institution? You can only imagine the content of those tests! There are mostly "Help me through" with no tests at all. Some people simply copy the given material and present it for "peer grading", hope that other people will give them "pass". Shame, nowhere only here, in Coursera you can observe this pattern. Conclusion: Coursera and all companies presented here by Coursera don't really care about education quality and quality personnel, so the purpose is simply clipping monthly money. Sad...

By Daniel C

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Jun 8, 2022

Look i am not an auditory or a reading learner. i learn mainky through hands on. there are parts of this course that i found were not quite well enough explained to where i felt comfortable doing some of these assignments. Defining the smart goals for one is an area yall need to expand upon. I had no idea what to look for in order to take a non smart goal and turn it into a smart goal. Just giving people definitions and saying okay so sink or swim is no way top teach people. If yall would have taken the time to do a couple of practice that you would work on with the llady yall have in the videos it would be of the greatest help to learners like me. ( repition is the father of learning, so to is practice). The lady doing the videos is extremely hard to hear even with the volume turned up to its maximum.(i am even using in ear headphones newly purchased)

By aleks w

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Dec 17, 2022

I understand why peer review tasks would sound like a good idea, and to some extent they are. But when I have completed the whole course and all other task and have to wait an unknown amount of time to get a review so that I can complete the course, then it starts to lose its purpose. A sugestion, make it so that it is an extra optional task with potential points for the final grade. Because as it sits now even though I have completed all the other tasks I am forced to wait an unknown amount of time to get my review, this just lowers my motivation and degrades the sence of achievment and gratification you get from completing the course.

By Matthew M

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Jul 21, 2022

This is a great course BUT peer-review is not a great vehicle for accurate or consistent grading. I know it may seem like it is nice to have peers check things together, but forcing peer review slows the process down immeasurably and creates an inconsistency in the potential for grading. Maybe you just have a mean reviewer that doesn't read it. Maybe you have a nice reviewer that just doesn't read it. Maybe you have someone that doesn't actually know how to find and review. It's much too subjective. I've worked in education for 10 years now and you can't use peer-review like this in an online format.

By Stacy M

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Dec 16, 2022

I hated the peer graded assignment. I had to resubmit my assignment three times, and it was the same submission all three times. My assignment met all of the requirements as outlined in the rubric, and I had peers failing me with no reason given. These peers that failed me would comment, "congrats" or "good job." It seemed like there was a language barrier on their end, and they couldn't understand how to grade the assignments properly, as a result, I had to take days resubmitting and waiting. Coursera needs to look into this and have an option to dispute or report improper grading.

By Anita L

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Aug 30, 2021

I find this course hard to navigate. I've submitted my Project Charter assignment many times and havent recieved an adequate response. The student review is very troubling because response was very negative and I thought that was forbidden plus I couldnt see my submission so I had no idea what to look for.

I dont like the way Coursera has formatted this course. It will say not completed then when I go to the page I see that I have already completed the assignment.

I want to cancel my subscription and cannot seem to find where that is either.

Not happy.

By Sheri C

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Jul 19, 2022

This was a good course - lots of activities - what I didn't like is that the discussion prompts said "optional", however the course would not be marked complete without them. While there are graded peer responses, the optional quetsions about my personal life should not be required. The 1st course, they were not. This course made them mandatory - but I did not know that until the complete end when I was trying to move on to course #3.

By Dhivya A

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Jun 29, 2021

The course is very good but I am not fully convinced with the "signature on the certificate". It will look formal when there is a signature (at least digital) with the name and position of the signing responsible. Having only Google don't look very formal and probe to fake certificates. I am afraid, my certificate will be questioned by the interviewer even though there is a coursera number. Please consider, thanks.

By Robert C A

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Aug 3, 2022

I don't know how you made such easy consepts so overly complicated. The way you organize the information your teaching was infuriating. I'm embarressed that I told my mom to try out this course after completeing course 1. It took all of my will power not to quit the course entirerly. I can't be the only person who feels this upset with this learnign experiance.

By Abdoulie F

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Aug 27, 2023

The quizzes are extremely frustrating because of the ambiguity of their wording. I have had an answer be wrong but when I compare the result to my notes the answer I provide is completely right. Or vice versa I place an answer I believe is wrong and in my notes even is only somewhat right and then that is the right answer, extremely irritating.

By Kirill V

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Aug 9, 2023

I think this course could be shorter. The volume of information is not so complex as to stretch it for a long time.

If you are not a beginner and not a schoolboy, you will be surprised that you are taught how to use Excel.

Although the course contains useful information (links and examples of using tools).

By Samy M M

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Jul 13, 2024

Teaching is gift from God, not everyone has it. When I read any materials or lessons, I use a text to speech extension in Google Chrome to make it easier for me. Not having periods, commas, and other missing punctuation makes the text to speech extension keep reading and have other bugs.

By N S

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Jul 4, 2021

I have submitted an assignment in week 2 of Course 2 and still have not received a grade. I have submitted it via attachment and google docs. Still have not received a grade or certification although the course is done and I'm on the next course now.

By George N

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Oct 5, 2021

Lecturer's poor pronunciation and presentation skills were distracting. Also the peer grading process is poorly implemented. You may need to wait for weeks for your submission to be graded... there's got to be a better way!

By katiuska t

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Oct 23, 2021

para poder obtener mi diploma me dicen que valide mi identidad me llega mensaje a mi celular y cuando trato de activar la camara no funciona? cómo puedo resolver esta situación y así generar mi diploma. gracias

By Nicole B

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Aug 21, 2023

It is a promotion for Google. I did not get to finish my studies. I am working full time. I am a single mom and the course cut off before I could complete it even though I was meeting the deadlines.

By Saeid N

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Oct 30, 2023

The content is good, complete and useful, but the presenter and her way of speaking are completely boring and confusing. Sometimes she doesn't even bearable and you should avoid watching videos

By Katy L M

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Nov 30, 2022

The idea of peer grading is really a horrible concept. You aren't able to move forward without others grading your work, which could take up to 7 days....greatly delaying your progress.

By Felipe C R

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Jul 27, 2023

There are many similar concepts, such as objective and scope, and in many cases, I did not understand the difference. I think it is important to gain more clarity on these concepts.

By &rea r

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Jan 15, 2023

Unhappy with peer reviews. My course is marked as 99% complete as peer review is not done. This peer review should not be mandatory. Please do not make this peer review mandatory.

By Jonathon C

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May 30, 2022

I have no idea if I did anything right. Some questions and answers made no sense. I don't think there is much I can use from this course beyond the glossary. Still got 97%.

By Tomal B

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Mar 2, 2023

I think the peer graded assignments idea is crap! If somebody wants to rush through it, they wouldnt care how much they are rating. Pointless putting efforts in it.

By Siva R

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Apr 30, 2021

submitting assignment and waiting for someone to review the assignment is a bit time consuming.

I hope coursera will control this step to improve the rating.

By NILESH S

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Jan 18, 2024

Frequently I faced issue with Assignment submission and yet there was no way i could find any one to connect and complain... about the issue I'm facing.