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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

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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 Brenda E P

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Apr 4, 2022

I'm finding this course to be very helpful. I love all the modules, the instructors, the assignments and the readings. It's such a pleasure to progress through this course and I'm learning a lot and finding ways to enhance my skills through the formal knowledge of the course.

By Jecinta M

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Jul 1, 2023

This course was very useful as all Coursera courses are. The instructor was very easy to understand, I enjoyed the peer reviews and hearing from my collegues. I am grateful for all the resources that the course has shared and will definkitely be continuing with th next course.

By Polina K

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Apr 10, 2022

This is a very informative and helpful course for beginners. It's great that you can save some templates for project documentation which you can use for your further job. With the knowledge from this course I have already got my first offer for Junior Project Manager position!

By Arsalan M

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May 5, 2023

Great Course for people looking to enter the project management field. The course is filled with great content, reading materials, quizzes and relevant tools. This course will make you job ready by providing all the necessary tools and templates required as a project manager.

By Mauro B S V

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Dec 30, 2022

Amazing second part can't wait for the next one.

Although all concepts are simple to grasp on the context of this course, I believe that they may differ a bit in actual practice . But that's the point of going through all of this to actually get a job an see what is all about

By Steve H

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Apr 27, 2021

This was a great course that helped me fill a few gaps in my project initiation skills. Even as a seasoned product manager that works on several projects annually, there were still things I picked up in this course that will benefit my future projects by a substantial amount.

By Sean S

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Oct 2, 2023

I found this course to be extremely well planned out. Easy to follow and thorough in its approach to delving into the various components of starting a project and the tools, methodologies, and tips needed to plan for success in the early stages of establishing a new project.

By smita D

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Mar 16, 2023

Dear Team,

This is a wonderfully design course not only for beginners but also practitioners.

I have learned a lot and going to refer the course material in future practice in my strategic planner and Implementer.

Now, I have confident to apply for a project manager Job Role.

By Tommy B

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Oct 9, 2022

I learned a lot of useful stuff in this course, concerning Project Initiation.

Things that were just abstract terms became concrete, and I learned how to deal with different process, and how to initate larger projects in a proffessional way.

Thank you Google, and Coursera!

By Siddhesh B

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Jul 27, 2023

Project Initiation is the 2nd course in the Google Project Management Certification. I enjoyed the assignments, teaching us the preparation of charts, project management tools and so on. Got a better outline about the steps that are involved in the project initiation phase.

By Mark R

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Dec 31, 2022

A nice overview of starting a project. The material gave me a good introduction to what tools are available for different parts of the process. It might nice if the work were not so heavily concentrated in week 2 but perhaps this is dictated by the grouping of the topics.

By Jiljo J

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Jul 10, 2021

It was a very good course for me to learn more about the initiation phase of the project. As one of the important phase of the project, I also spend most of the time in this area. As a Senior manager JuAnne's video deliveries were exceptional and were interesting to listen.

By Dennis R

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Aug 11, 2023

Great course and instructor. The videos are well produced (down to the dress colour and desk props) without being too flashy. The most important part though is the material presented, and I can only say that I found it useful and engaging. Thank you for the opportunity!

By esther g

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Feb 14, 2023

The lecturer was clear and precise. The course offers deeper elaboration of content giving links and files to download for further studies. This course also gave personal involvement and step by step guidance to practice and complete tasks on my own promoting learning.

By Fernando L G

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Oct 25, 2022

Deep dive into the initiation of a project. They are emphatic on how important it is to set objectives, define scope, establish success criterias and proper documentation. They also give you an insight on how to do it by providing templates and examples. Great course!

By Natalia I O S

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Oct 14, 2022

I loved this course! I learned a lot about the diffeent documents a PM must know about and manage. I also got an insight on the many project managment tools available. I am beyond exited to keep learning about Project Management. The instructors are truly exceptional.

By Dawn S

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Sep 6, 2022

Very good examples with the inclusion of templates. I like how they recap the main points of the video with the reading assignments right after. The charter project assignment felt like a true assessment for getting started and understanding the essential components.

By Yash D

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Dec 3, 2021

I am really grateful to join this course. the way all of the instructors teach and explain things is very easy to understand and grasp the maximum knowledge. entire course is based on industrial standards and that is what makes it so interesting.

THANK YOU GOOGLE !!!!

By Farzaneh T

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Jul 6, 2023

The course itself is great. Having more downloadable material specially in Reading sections would have helped some people like me with ADHD, far more. I need to concentrate and review a printed version as well. Plus, it doesn't hurt to have some resources to review.

By Simeon A

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Jan 23, 2022

This course gives the would-be project manager a solid background in such a manner that after you're done with this course, you also get a new level of confidence regarding handling project initiation. I kept wondering is there was more needed on the specialization.

By Jose L M

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Mar 9, 2023

Mediante este curso, que es de gran importanacia, pude obtener habilidades y las herramientas útiles para ejercer la carrera de la gestión de proyectos, lo que será de suma importancia para mi desarrollo en el ámbito, personal, académico, laboral y profesional.

By Wenji L

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Oct 18, 2021

This course give you an overview on the project initiation and introduce multiple tools that could be used during the process. A good start for beginner to have some basic idea but definitely need practice and participation to be familiar with how to use the tools.

By Camila B M N

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Aug 16, 2022

It was amazing to understand a lot about tools and how can they help in any project. This course opens my mind to start a new chapter in my professional life because I can add a lot of skills that I have been getting during my experience in this possible new area.

By Viter A

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Jan 17, 2023

This course helps bring order to the processes and systemize everything. Some things were already familiar, but there was chaos in my head. Now I will try to put everything in order. And useful lessons about tools. These are my favorite points in all the courses.

By Rajat P

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Oct 6, 2022

This Course was nice as it offered various insights into succesffull intiation of a Project. Google team has give in-depth guidance via this easy learning platform. Thanks to the various Project manager trainers who led & taught the course in an interesting way.