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About the Course

This is the first of six courses in the Google Project Management Certificate program, which will help you develop the skills needed to apply for entry-level roles as a project manager. Project managers play a key role in leading, planning and implementing critical projects to help their organizations succeed. 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. Current Google project managers will offer a multi-dimensional educational experience that will provide you with tools you can apply on the job. 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: - Define project management and describe what constitutes a project. - Explore project management roles and responsibilities across a variety of industries. - Detail the core skills that help a project manager be successful. - Describe the life cycle of a project and explain the significance of each phase. - Compare different program management methodologies and approaches and determine which is most effective for a given project. - Define organizational structure and culture and explain how it impacts project management. - Define change management and describe the role of the project manager in the process....

Top reviews

BC

Dec 27, 2021

This course is very helpful for those who want to kick start their career in project management field. It is highly interactive and covers basics of project management thoroughly. I really enjoyed it.

LL

Jan 19, 2022

Very informative and thorough! I've finished this course with so much knowledge that can be applied to the workforce. Everything is laid out in easy to follow and efficient steps. Couldn't be happier!

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By Tanya P

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Aug 17, 2022

This journey into Learning Project Management through Google has been such a wonderful and beginner friendly introduction! It's facisinating to be able to relate and implement my own experiences into what I am learning with my experiences with my current company, and I loved the stories and the diverse background of the Googlers that gave their time to talking to us in the course. See you in Course 2!

By Anibrata B

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Jun 23, 2023

Very comprehensively designed course. The content was good. Materials presented were systematic and organized to retain one's attention and interest. Transition from one section to another was also very smooth; overall layout of the modules and presentation was catchy. Had my interest throughout!

By Su W (

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Jul 2, 2021

Mixed video, activity, and test help me focus and learn so much. And we can try many times in the test help us gain more confident and chance to enhance where we haven't understand. Such a great work.

By Indra N

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Feb 1, 2023

I do not know why it is the best course I have ever had. Thank you, Google and Coursera, for providing such a great course. You cover many intensive and comprehensive items, particularly the speaker.

By Nick E

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Apr 10, 2022

Wow, I did not expect that it will be so much fun to work on this course. It gives a lot of good information. This course must be taken by anybody who is not familiar with project management methods.

By SAI D

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Jan 17, 2025

This course helped me to understand the foundation concepts of Project Management at a deeper level with simplified language and understandable examples. Thanks, Google 😊

By Tabitha

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Jun 24, 2023

Great course. Gives you A LOT of information (none of which was unnecessary). I'm really glad I decided to take this course.

By VIshnu V

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Dec 5, 2022

This course is making me more confident for applying new roles that lead to field of project management

By Syed S A

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May 26, 2022

This course perfectly covers the main ingredients that helps make a PM successful in his field.

By Ajinkya P

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Jun 5, 2022

Very thoughtful course really appriciated for the great information.

By Apurv G

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Sep 9, 2023

GOOD COURSE NEED MORE TIME SUBSCRIPTION IS HIGH

By Guvanch G

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Jun 24, 2023

Very informative and practical

By Małgorzata P

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Feb 3, 2022

Good basic knowladge to start

By Colton F

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Mar 2, 2023

The main presenter started off a bit rough, a little unwelcoming in his mannerisms. However, he keeps a solid composure, and he presents the material VERY clearly (which is the important part). After week 1 or so, he seemed to have polished his skills, and he became a better presenter whom I learned the most from. The activities are nice to do. The drag and drop is useful and interesting. The wording of tests can overlap and cause confusion in the "select all" answers in which they want nearly verbatim answers from the miles of text you read. They should really label "how many" need to be selected per answer when the 3rd or 4th answer isn't inevitably incorrect. The downloadable reading is really nice and helps supplement the content. I like that they repeat and reiterate things because this develops memorization of it. The worst parts of this are the peer interactions which aren't forced, but feel completely useless. If it were highly trained peers in similar levels of knowledge, critique would be useful. In this case, not really. I suppose if you're lonely, it is beneficial. I didn't feel a whole lot of energy going around when I did skim the commentary. Most people didn't even seem to understand the questions or implications desired. Also, at least half of the very quick videos of employees as examples in day-to-day life were absolutely useless, and I felt I got nothing from it except filler time. I don't mind filler time when working toward a requirement though. However, most of them couldn't present half as well as the main guy, didn't seem to be professional at all, and they really didn't strike me as anything near a leader or manager. That being said, I'm ready for part 2. I'm excited for more hands on experience, and I am looking forward to getting better teachers.

By LG

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Jan 13, 2022

It was a good course. Good enough for me to want to continue to the next course.

The tests and examples were great and easy to follow, no changes there.

For someone who is extremely organized, the videos where challenging to outline. For someone else with a different personality, it was probably perfect.

The platform is a bit challenging to follow, for example, I am unable to find the course I just completed on the 'Completed' tab.

It was very repetitive and had a bit too much fluff. The course could have been much shorter and save us some time.

By Beep B

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Jun 19, 2021

For me it's 50 50 half understand half not but trying hard to fully understand it

By Martin P

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May 1, 2021

More practical knowledge

By krishna j

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Apr 24, 2021

Should be more practical

By Ilaria C

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Apr 1, 2021

Too repetitive sometimes

By Diana S

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Mar 8, 2023

Layout is great, idea too, however if you are here hoping to get the certificate within the 7 day free trial I got bad news for you. I tried - it didn't work. Course is designed by smart people predicting that you will try this. Also if you believe that doing this course will really make you stand out amongst other applicants with degrees in project management, again Iam afraid to dissapoint you. Yet, this course is really informative, and very well designed, assigments are made nicely so you actually have to think twice and at every atempt questions change. Its a goot suplimentary course or a way to lern something new.

By Marco D R

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Sep 16, 2023

This course should be called "do you like to be a project manager? and how to find a job in project management" It has very little actual information about project management, and most of the concepts could have easily been explained in a few pages, instead they make you spend hours vaguely talking about tangential topics. I do not have a lot of time available, if I take a course online about a specific topic I want to improve, I want concrete and efficient information that will help me actually do the task I am learning.

By Cristina R V

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Apr 28, 2022

I appreciate the effort and resources put to create this course, it's very well organised, but I feel that the content is too basic. I found that there's so much material and you need to spend so many hours just for an introduction. I'd prefer to summarise more this content and put more focus and dedicate more time to the tools that project managers should use in their everyday.

By ed

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Mar 14, 2022

It's informative, but there's a lot of fluff built into this course. There's too much review of covered material. Concepts are repeated over and over again. The course video/reading could probably be cut by 10-20% if they would introduce a topic, and just go over it ONCE

By Muhammad F

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Dec 22, 2021

Certificate should be free for this basic course.

By Kyaw K

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Jul 20, 2023

The content of the course is good but the task and assignments design for foundational class is not inclusive for all. When I try to take assignments, it says to take in computer; but I have only Ipad. If the course design covered for all devices, it would be more effective and productive for all.