Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project
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Approx. 18 hours to complete
Course Summary
This course is designed to teach project initiation strategies using Google tools. You will learn how to create a project charter and build a project plan using Google Sheets and Google Docs.Key Learning Points
- Learn how to create a project charter using Google Docs
- Understand how to build a project plan using Google Sheets
- Discover how to identify stakeholders and create a communication plan
- Learn how to create a risk management plan
- Explore how to manage project changes and close out a project
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- Project Coordinator
- USA: $50,000 - $75,000
- India: INR 4,50,000 - INR 7,50,000
- Spain: €30,000 - €45,000
- Project Manager
- USA: $70,000 - $130,000
- India: INR 6,00,000 - INR 12,00,000
- Spain: €40,000 - €70,000
- Business Analyst
- USA: $60,000 - $100,000
- India: INR 4,00,000 - INR 10,00,000
- Spain: €30,000 - €50,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Create a project charter using Google Docs
- Build a project plan using Google Sheets
- Identify stakeholders and create a communication plan
- Create a risk management plan
- Manage project changes and close out a project
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Basic knowledge of project management
- Access to Google Docs and Google Sheets
Course Difficulty Level
BeginnerCourse Format
- Online self-paced course
- Video lectures
- Hands-on exercises
Similar Courses
- Project Management Basics
- Applied Project Management
- Project Management: The Basics for Success
Related Education Paths
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Certification
Notable People in This Field
- Kim Wasson
- Andy Crowe
Related Books
Description
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.
Knowledge
- Understand the significance of the initiation phase of the project life cycle.
- Understand the key components of project charters and develop a project charter for project initiation.
- Complete a stakeholder analysis and utilize RACI charts to define and communicate project team member responsibilities.
- Evaluate various project management tools to meet project needs.
Outline
- Fundamentals of project initiation
- Introduction to Course 2
- Why is project initiation essential?
- Key components of project initiation
- Afsheen: Listening to learn
- Wrap-up
- Course 2 overview
- Helpful resources to get started
- Performing a cost-benefit analysis
- Reflection: Project initiation and key components
- Weekly Challenge 1
- Defining project goals, scope, and success criteria
- Introduction: Defining project goals, scope, and success criteria
- Determining project goals and deliverables
- How to set SMART goals
- Navigating Peer/Self Reviews
- Introduction to OKRs
- Determining a project's scope
- Monitoring and maintaining a project's scope
- Managing changes to a project's scope
- Torie: The importance of staying within scope
- Launching and landing a project
- Defining success criteria
- Wrap-up
- SMART goals: Making goals meaningful
- Optional: What to know about peer-graded assignments
- Creating OKRs for your project
- Optional Activity Exemplar: Create OKRs for your project
- Gathering information to define scope
- Strategies for controlling scope creep
- Optional: Reviewing the Triple Constraint
- Don't forget to land: Measuring project success
- Tracking and communicating success criteria
- Using OKRs to evaluate progress
- Optional Activity: Create OKRs for your project
- Test your knowledge: Identifying project goals
- Test your knowledge: Defining project scope
- Reflection: Applying the Triple Constraint
- Weekly Challenge 2
- Working effectively with stakeholders
- Introduction: Working effectively with stakeholders
- Accessibility for project managers
- Choosing a project team
- Defining project roles
- John: The importance of a project team
- Completing a stakeholder analysis
- Elements of a RACI chart
- Certificate completers: Staying motivated in the program
- Wrap-up
- Review: The building blocks of a project dream team
- Essential project roles
- Prioritizing stakeholders and generating their buy-in
- Activity Exemplar: Complete a stakeholder analysis and power grid
- Building out a RACI chart
- Exemplar: Set project roles and responsibilities in a RACI chart
- Getting the most out of a RACI chart
- Activity Exemplar: Assign project roles and responsibilities in a RACI chart
- Why projects fail: Initiation missteps
- Activity: Complete a stakeholder analysis and power grid
- Test your knowledge: Evaluating stakeholders
- Activity: Set project roles and responsibilities in a RACI chart
- Activity: Assign project roles and responsibilities in a RACI chart
- Weekly Challenge 3
- Utilizing resources and tools for project success
- Introduction: Utilizing resources and tools for project success
- Essential project resources
- The value of project documentation
- Project proposals and charters 101
- Developing a project charter
- Utilizing tools for effective project management
- Exploring types of project management tools
- Common project management tools
- Amar: Tools are our best friends
- Course wrap-up
- Managing resources to get the job done
- Project charters: Elements and formats
- Introducing new tools to a team
- Using Google Sheets for project management
- Demonstrating your knowledge of project management tools
- Build a project management tool tracker
- Course 2 glossary
- Get started on Course 3
- Test your knowledge: Evaluating tools
- Reflection: Project tools
- Weekly Challenge 4
Summary of User Reviews
A comprehensive course on project initiation by Google with positive reviews overall. Users particularly appreciated the interactive nature of the course.Pros from User Reviews
- Well-structured course content
- Engaging assignments and quizzes
- In-depth explanations
- Useful resources and materials provided
- Great for beginners
Cons from User Reviews
- Limited interaction with instructors
- Some sections may be too basic for experienced professionals
- Not enough focus on real-life project scenarios
- No certification provided
- Lacks advanced project management techniques
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