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Overview

Explore project management roles and responsibilities across a variety of industries

Duration

18 hours

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Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Foundations of Project Management
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Google
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Foundations of Project Management
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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Describe project management skills, roles, and responsibilities across a variety of industries
  • Explain the project management life cycle and compare different program management methodologies
  • Define organizational structure and organizational culture and explain how it impacts project management
More about this course
  • This course is the first in a series of six to equip you with the skills you need to apply to introductory-level roles in project management
  • In this course, you?ll discover foundational project management terminology and gain a deeper understanding of the role and responsibilities of a project manager
  • We?ll also introduce you to the kinds of jobs you might pursue after completing this program
  • Throughout the program, you?ll learn from current Google project managers, who can provide you with a multi-dimensional educational experience that will help you build your skills for on-the-job application
  • By the end of this course, you will be able to define project management and describe what constitutes a project

Foundations of Project Management
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Curriculum

Embarking on a career in project management

Welcome to the Google Project Management Certificate

Introduction to Course

What is project management?

What does a project manager do?

Transferable project management skills

X: Path to becoming a project manager

From certificate to career success

Finding the perfect role

Gilbert: Project management skills in my role

Wrap-up

Becoming an effective project manager

Introduction: Becoming an effective project manager

The value of a project manager

JuAnne: Path to becoming a project manager

Key project manager roles and responsibilities

A project manager?s role within a team

Elita: A day in the life of a project manager

The core skills of a project manager

Rachel: My journey to becoming a project manager

Leadership and team dynamics

Ellen: Traits of a successful project manager

Wrap-up

The project management life cycle and methodologies

Introduction: The project management life cycle and methodologies

Exploring the phases of the project life cycle

Phases in action: Initiating and planning

Phases in action: Executing and closing

Introduction to project management methodologies

Overview of Waterfall and Agile

Introduction to Lean and Six Sigma

Wrap-up

Organizational structure and culture

Introduction: Organizational structure and culture

Overview of Classic and Matrix structures

How organizational structure impacts project management

Lan: Working in a Project Management Office

Introduction to organizational culture

Amar: Project management in life and in the organization

Introduction to change management

Participating in change management

Preparing for your job search

Congrats! What's coming in Course 2

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    May 25, 2024
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    Lavanya V
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    Learning Experience: The course content was very much relatable and was easy to understand, google course had some real life examples which made the concepts more readable.
    Faculty: Faculty was a real life program manager it was good to hear him talk about his experience in Google Course structure was simple and to the point, assessments and assignments were easier and elevated our thoughts
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    Rahul Kumar Kashyap
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    Learning Experience: The course content was awesome.it keep you engaged throughout the course and you will never feel a boredom with videos as they have combination of short videos exercise quizes and all.i loved it.
    Faculty: All the Faculties have a very nice command over the domain and having a good explaination skills. Course is well planned by the experts in google.Theg all are SMEs in their field and possess a good command on the subject.They explained the content very well.
    Course Support: I am actively searching for new job, I am sure this course will help me in that.
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    Soundarya
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    Learning Experience: Basically if one want to learn some course then particularly he or she should have separate time for that.in that way this takes more time and it is easy when you learnt all modules
    Faculty: Yeah about resource persons they have thought clearly and provide notes It has peer graded activity and has 6weeks
    Course Support: Nothing much learnt about project management
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    Karthikachandra K
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    Learning Experience: The course provided an overview of what an Agile methodology is. The course taught what are the skills to be devloped to efficiently work in an Agile environment
    Faculty: The course has pre-recorded videos with qualified professionals The course includes videos, articles, practise assignments and peer graded tests. The cours uses an interavtive way of education which is good
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    SAURAV KUMAR
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    Learning Experience: Great course as we are managing different projects in our day to day lives
    Faculty: Had a great deal of exposure working at Google Online course with live examples for greater understanding
    Course Support: How to approach a problem in a well defined manner
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