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About the Course

This is the second course in the Google Project Management Certificate program. In this course, you will discover how to set a project up for success in the first phase of the project life cycle: the project initiation phase. As you explore the key components of this phase, you will learn how to determine a project’s benefits and costs, create measurable project goals and deliverables, manage project scope, and measure a project’s success criteria. You will learn how to define project roles and responsibilities, complete a stakeholder analysis, and utilize RACI charts. You will also learn the typical resources needed to manage a project, practice developing a project charter, and evaluate various project management tools. Current Google project managers will continue to instruct you in how to accomplish all of these tasks, describing the right 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

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Feb 15, 2022

This has been a good learning experience. I now know the different project management tools available. I have a good understanding of project initiation and how to determine the success of a project.

MG

Feb 8, 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 Natasha S

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Aug 25, 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 Alexa

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Feb 12, 2025

It was very informative, but I felt like some of the content could be shaved down a bit. It felt very repetitive at times and contained some fluff. Great course!

By Tarryn W

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Apr 18, 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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Aug 1, 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 8, 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 Navid J

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Jan 30, 2025

The last quiz and materials were a bit confusing about productivity, communication and work management tools. But other than that, all was very good.

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.

By Soksan N

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Aug 19, 2022

So far I'm very pleased with the course. It is intriguing and interactive. I have learned a lot and i'm looking forward to completing the training.

By matthew b

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Sep 19, 2023

Great informative course, will challenge you to think and really plan in detail. Guides you the right direction to becoming a great project manager.

By Santiago L

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Mar 21, 2023

Module 4 is not as good and the peer grade system is bad IMO. Otherwise it's a good course, very well structured, and the Key Ideas are very useful.

By Syllar C

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Apr 29, 2021

The lancing and landing section was a bit unclear and the tools week(4) should have been more interactive with some of the tools it was show casing.

By Shudhanshu B

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Dec 5, 2021

Overall the project experience was good. I would suggest Including more case studies and interactive exercises to make the course more interesting.

By Tiffany M

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Aug 20, 2022

I liked this class, however, I felt it was not as cleanly presented as the first course. Perhaps that is just my lack of knowledge on the subject.

By Ihilani S

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Dec 13, 2023

I gave this course a 4 only because it would be really nice to have interaction with other learners however other than that this has been amazing