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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Project Planning: Putting It All Together by Google

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About the Course

This is the third course in the Google Project Management Certificate program, which focuses on 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 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: - 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....

Top reviews

PV

Jul 27, 2022

It provides a good hands on experience in Project Planning using Spreadsheets developing Communication plan, Buget Plan, Project Schedule plans creating hyperlinks urls for easy access and much more!

BW

Aug 28, 2024

This course, the fifth of six, helped bring the pieces in the first four parts into a broad workflow. I really gained an understanding of the importance of each distinct step and how they all meshed

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By Daniel K

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Nov 20, 2024

Overall the course is formatted really well and is very informational, however there are many times when it feels like the instructor is going too fast. As someone who enjoys taking notes to review, I found myself pausing the videos a lot just to get down the necessary information.

By Elmira B

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Sep 25, 2024

Loved the information and how it was presented. Made a lot of concepts that used to be scary, manageable. It was a bit repetitive in some areas, but overall, it gave me a good understanding of concepts such as budgeting, risk management, scheduling and documentation.

By Michelle K

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Mar 17, 2022

I would have been interested in more examples of communication failures. I feel like I'm developing a solid vocabulary from this course series. But I would have like to examine more instances where communication has failed and the recovery of that problem.

By Phoenicia H

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Jul 29, 2022

overall I enjoyed the course and I always take away from each video, constantly learning experience. What I don't like is the peer grades, waiting on somoene to grade projects when I'm ready to move on is holding me back from my goal of completion.

By Elizabeth B

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Feb 4, 2022

Concept of Peer Review is great. But peer's reviewing don't necessarily accurately grade. I found a mistake, after reviewing, that I would have marked wrong/not answers selected. Maybe a grade Exemplar for peers to review while grading would help.

By Paula Y M

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May 16, 2023

Great information and very detailed!

I would have liked more information and direction in the Communication Plan section however, I was able to take the exemplar and compare my assignment to gain a better understanding.

Thanks Coursera!

By Jennifer S

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Jan 18, 2024

Lots of great info. My only criticism would be that sometimes the information shared feels repetitive. I enjoyed learning about project planning because so many of the core principals are applicable in other fields and life in general.

By Melinda D

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May 17, 2021

I really appreciate the practical parts of this course - I learned a lot while doing the excercises. I only felt that this course was much harder and that it didnt prepare me as good for the final quizes like the other courses before.

By FABIO A

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May 13, 2023

Peer review have some shortcomings. There should be paid option to review assignments. Depending on the complexity, I think something between $1 to $10 USD could be doable for those that want feedback from an experience practitioner.

By Sally M W

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Jun 24, 2021

Very informative, but I needed more help and guidance on some of the forms with more explaination. Need more than quick overview of how to create a chart before having to be graded on having to do by ourselves. Just a suggestion.

By Francisca G

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Apr 1, 2022

The Training was a bit challenging as expected it cant be smoothe sailing all the way. The trainer was good, audible and clear in her explanations. I would recommend this course to anyone interested to pursue project management.

By Justice P

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Jan 12, 2023

The lesson material and instructors are nothing short of exceptional.

I also would encourage that the peer-grading format be reviewed because it delays approval.

But in all, I am enjoying every bit of my learning here.

Thanks

By José A M A

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Jul 11, 2022

Amazing as the others, but there was one quiz, I believe week 5 that was very confusing. The videos and texts did not necessarily convey clearly the information needed to be 100% sure how to answer some of the questions.

By Anna P

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Dec 19, 2024

since i am working as an IT Project Manager there was a lot of information i won't use daily and i'd prefer it to have separate sections depending what kind of PM you're so you can do graded quizzes only for this topics

By SHANTANU J

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May 25, 2023

The course is designed to gain an overview of the industry. The only reason for giving the course a 4-star is that Google could help students work on real-time projects that could be added to the experience in resume.

By Sagar C

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Mar 10, 2022

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.

By Hisham A A

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Jun 4, 2022

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.

By Eileen B

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Dec 22, 2023

The information is presented in a way that makes it easy to retain. The practice exercises reinforce the learning. My only suggestion is to allow learners to make .pdf copies of the readings.

By Erika S

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May 13, 2021

I really enjoyed this course! I was able to evaluate myself on what I already knew and how much more I needed to learn about communicating and effective communication with project management.

By Sarah P

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May 8, 2022

The content of the course was good but some of the later activities were far too advanced and/or long. I didn't feel I has sufficient knowledge or resources to complete them with confidence.

By Jesus A

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Jun 14, 2024

Either the modules are lacking a bit of information or the questions are getting harder. I do not know exactly what could be or perhaps both things are happening. Anyway, I love my modules!

By thierry l

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Jun 22, 2024

I have a very difficult time listening to female voices, which makes the learning experience quite challenging for me. I wish there were an option to choose the gender of the instructor.

By Evgeni S

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Mar 6, 2024

The course was very good overall. I would like to see the time estimates for completing activities (not just readings and videos) in the overall estimate which shows on top of the page.

By Paulina A

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Oct 5, 2022

Good module! This certificate is complete, full of examples and provides you with multiple documents you can use in real life. I found it a bit longer than the rest, but great overall.

By Chisom D

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Mar 27, 2024

Project Planning: Putting It All Together is such a great course. I learnt a lot on how to effectively budget for a project, write a communication plan and how to initiate a project