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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

AA

Feb 14, 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 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 Johnathan B

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May 27, 2021

took to long to get assignments graded

By Natalie R

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Aug 22, 2022

A bit dull but overall informative.

By Liya G

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Mar 24, 2022

The lecturer might be more dynamic:)

By Yegammai R

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Aug 21, 2022

Instruction voice is too feeble

By Macarena U

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Jun 19, 2023

demasiadas preguntas practicas

By Martin M

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Nov 4, 2023

Half of the course is useless

By John B

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Mar 9, 2023

Peer grading is not worth it.

By Jill B

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Sep 8, 2023

longer than I anticipated.

By Jeffrey M

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Aug 6, 2023

great and easily to follow

By Maria N

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Sep 19, 2022

Too much in one module.

By LOUIS A

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Oct 26, 2023

it was a nice course.

By Cátia T

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Sep 19, 2021

Videos hard to follow

By TJ V B

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Aug 10, 2022

beeter to learn

By mabo s

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Feb 16, 2022

Amazing stuff!

By Rettangi A

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Dec 31, 2023

not appealing

By Carlos F

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Nov 2, 2021

A bit tedious

By Swati

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Aug 29, 2022

Good so far.

By UDARAPU N H

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Aug 18, 2022

good course

By Muhammad B K

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Sep 16, 2023

good

By ‏ J M Y T

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May 10, 2023

good

By SUSHANTH H

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Aug 17, 2022

good

By Siddharth G

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Jul 24, 2023

Yo

By g s

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Sep 18, 2022

3

By Amber M

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Aug 31, 2022

By Ivan

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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.