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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.

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.

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By Daniel B S S

Dec 15, 2022

This course is really useful for me as a beginner in Project Management. I learned the steps of initiating a project. Like defining project goals, team roles, analyzing stakeholders, and choosing the right tools for my project team! Really grateful for having the opportunity to learn this course!

By Isaac C

Jul 18, 2022

The course is great, but the learner could be very frustrated by the peer-grading assignment. Some graders just assigned zeros to all items and provided no feedback at all; to a point, I wonder if the grader fully understands English. I had to resubmit again to get rid of the inresponsible grade.

By Samantha D

Apr 25, 2022

This course was thorough and allowed lots of opportunities to practice the concepts demonstrated. I liked having the opportunity to review the work of my peers as well as having my work reviewed by them. It allowed me to see that I was on the right track and also see areas where I could improve.

By Jose S

Sep 28, 2021

Excellent course, very friendly, its content quite complete and easy to understand, the practical exercises complete the training a lot. The instructions are all excellent. Congratulations, it is perceived that they are excellent professionals and are 100% identified and committed to the company

By Reuben C

Apr 1, 2022

Excellent course...!!

I really enjoyed it, despite having more than five years experience as Project Manager, this course gave me the opportunity, not just to fill the gaps, but to look at project management from totally different perspectives as presented in the course.

Thank you Google.

By Dumitru E

Feb 19, 2022

This couse was amazing. I liked this course because the theoretical notions had a vast portfolio of examples and for me learning by example was important, also the multitude of quiz tests contributed enormously to the solidification of the knowledge acquired through the course. Great job!

By Edgars P

Feb 14, 2022

Very well structured course with clear strategic approach, by linking it's content to the next courses under the Project Management Certificate program. Provides very good explanation about how to initiate a project successfully. The course is delivered in an interactive and engaging way.

By Johnson A

Oct 12, 2023

It is simply amazing how simple everyday tasks I do in school and did not feel them important, are broken down and taught to me. I connected more to this course as I got to learn more about how to handle and start project's. As I am in my final year's of education this is irreplaceable.

By Prabhat S

Dec 16, 2022

This course is fantastic and top-notch. I understood well just because everything has been explained so well that there was no doubt while learning the concept. Guided projects are also very much helpful to understand the concept in detail. Thank you so much dear Instructor and Coursera.

By parita w

Nov 27, 2022

This course is really incredible . special thanks to the course instructor her style of explanation is ingenious. the course covers all the necessary info for project initiation. i would like to leave one suggestion to the course developer to add one tutorial over work management tools.

By MEHUL V P

Dec 30, 2022

Overall I really like this class because all lectures, assignments, and tests are straight forward. I thought it was well planned and layed out, easy for me to follow. I believe that I have more knowledge about ocean, weather, and marine lives and hopefully, I can use them in real life.

By ABHINAV B

Jul 10, 2023

I have learnt a lot of terms related to the initiation of the project and the way, of course, was good as I understood everything very clearly. In addition, I hope now I can implement this knowledge into my job whenever I get it. I would like to say thanks to the creator of this course

By Mehmet H Ç

May 1, 2021

Google keeps giving their best on this Project Management Program with the second course. I like their easy and notable way of presenting the application behind this topics. I am sure to become a young "expert" in Project Management with gaining the right skills through this course! :)

By Mostafa B

Mar 15, 2022

its great on a professional level even for experienced experts that refreshes fundementals and definitions and explains the methods in an exceelent way

really made a differece in seeing things in an improved ways and of course headhunters are more eager to hire me now and more notices

By Chin L H

Oct 3, 2022

Did not know until I have taken this module that initiation of a project is not simple. There are very important steps like stakeholder analysis, setting SMART goals, in-scope & out-of-scope, drawing up a project charter etc & emphasis on documentation is very good practical advice.

By Temitope K

Aug 18, 2022

This is a highly recommended course. Teaches and trains you on real life project management application. Gives you all the coaching, tools, templates and resources to succeed on the job. After this course, you will feel you have indeed gathered real life experience. Totally worth it!

By Daniela D N

Jun 13, 2021

I am in love with this Certificate Program, offered by Google and Coursera! It is very well planned and organised, packed with relevant content and information. It is also very much didactic, full of practical real life examples and exercises, which means: great teaching methodology.

By Jianglin L

Nov 26, 2021

I highly recommend this course to new employees or experienced project managers. It's helpful to go through the project documentation that you prepared for previous projects and try to restructure some of them. This will improve the efficiency and effectiveness for future projects.

By K L

Jul 18, 2021

I am enjoying the program very much as it has very relatable lessons as well as providing all information in a very real orld context. I would highly recomend Google Corsera to anyone who wishes to improve and/or add a great skillset for the betterment of themselves professionally.

By Kathryn M

May 31, 2022

I have enjoyed this course, very informative. I started to take another Project Management course and it was very bland and hard to stay tuned in. This course has people actually teaching the course and you can see the passion they have for their jobs. Thank you for this course.

By Ксения В

Jan 27, 2023

I really liked this course. Many topics and useful tools were covered: RACE diagram, stakeholder matrix, practice of setting goals for SMART and OKRs, the use of a project management triangle. I was pleased with the large amount of practice and cool templates. Thank you very much!

By István S

Jan 7, 2023

I am thrilled with how much information I am getting about Project Management. The amount of information and getting details are well done. I continuously refer all my friends who want to learn more about Project Management to attend this set of courses. I am enjoying it a lot!

By ADEJUMO M A

Aug 2, 2022

This is an awesome drill and experience. This course introduced me to the real world of Managing a Project, I mean in a real-time. Project Initiation exposed my to successfully start a project as a new skill I just acquired after attending this PM Initiation stage.

Best Regards.

By Twite D

Jun 17, 2022

The course covered very helpful topics like the RACI chart for stakeholder mapping and assigning responsibilities and I also like the introduction to project management tools. I also enjoyed the step by step process of generating a project charter that was covered in this course.

By Geraldine D

May 30, 2021

There were a lot of deliverables in this course, and there was also a lot of content. I completed it in 2 days, but should have spaced it out. The work seemed overwhelming because of it, but it's totally doable, and now I have things to present when I interview for PM positions.